ATA members win 8 gold medals at the Australian Taekwondo Nationals held in Sydney 4-6 Sept 2008
Results:
Gold medal: 1st placing:
Jed Calicdan (Mandurah); 31-40 years male 1st dan black belt poomsae
Miranda Seng (Mandurah); 10-11 years female 2nd poom black belt poomsae
Roy Khoh (Mandurah); 18-30 years male 3rd dan black belt poomsae
Richard Huynh (Morley); 31-40 years male 4th dan black belt poomsae
Elanie Schoeman (Rockingham); 18-30 years female blue belt poomsae
Elanie Schoeman (Rockingham); open female blue belt 67-72 kgs
Aneldi Schoeman (Rockingham); 14-17 years female yellow belt 55-59 kgs
Zachary Platt (Halls Head); 10-11 years yellow belt 46-50 kgs
Silver medal: 2nd placing:
Alice Warren (Mandurah); 10-11 years female red belt 25-28 kgs
Bronze medal: 3rd placing:
Miranda Seng (Mandurah); 10-11 years female black belt 34-38 kgs
Aneldi Schoeman (Rockingham); 14-17 years female yellow belt poomsae
4th placing:
Liam Fossey (Morley); 12-13 years male 1st dan black belt poomsae
Stephanie Fossey (Morley); 10-11 years female red belt poomsae
7th placing:
Alice Warren (Mandurah); 10-11 years female red belt poomsae
Report
Elanie Schoeman (Rockingham) produced the best performance from the ATA team members when she won 2 gold medals while representing WA at the Australian Taekwondo nationals being held in Sydney during 4th – 6th September 2008.
Elanie won her poomsae division with a high score of 7.47 beating her 2nd placed opponent from Queensland who scored 7.12 (a 0.1 point gap can be similar as a 1-point difference for sparring). In the sparring contests she beat Victoria and NSW by runaway 7 point gap scores of 9-2. She executed her roundhouse kicks to precision placing them squarely on her opponent’s trunk scoring areas. She has potential to reach greater heights in her development towards her red belt next year and then black belt in the following year.
Next best performed were Aneldi Schoeman (Rockingham) and Miranda Seng (Mandurah) who both won a gold and a bronze medal each.
Aneldi was trailing 1-0 in the 1st round and scored a head shot with 2 points to lead 2-1 but her NSW opponent scored the next 2 points to counter back into a lead of 3-2 until the last few seconds when Aneldi scored the important 1 point to tie the score 3-3 to force a sudden death round which she won. Aneldi scored 7.13 in her poomsae to win bronze in a field of 6 players.
Miranda Seng (Mandurah) won her poomsae division with a score of 7.35 beating her next placed opponent from Victoria who scored 6.78. Miranda lost her sparring to Victoria in the semi-finals and bowed out with a bronze medal.
Zachary Platt (Halls Head) won his semi-final fight against Queensland in a close match 2-1. In the final, also against Queensland, Zach unleashed 5 unanswered point scores before the end of the first round before slowing down in a sporting move to allow the contest to play out time and the other player to play the game. His opponent came back to score another 2 points before Zach let fly with 2 more roundhouse kicks to win convincingly 7 points to 2.
The other gold medal winners were won by our male black belt poomsae players; Richard Hunyh with a score of 8.20 (2nd placed was 7.83); Roy Khoh with a score of 8.10 (2nd placed was 7.35, a massive gap of 0.75); and Jedi Calicdan with a winning score of 7.68 (2nd placed was 7.18).
Alice Warren (Mandurah) went kick for kick in her sparring match with South Australia. She caught up after being 1 point down in the 1st round to tie the score 1-1 to force another sudden death round but was unlucky to lose by a golden point to the SA player in the end. Many of both players’ kicks went begging for points and nonetheless it was an exciting match as both little tyros just went for it. The little pocket dynamos embraced after the fight displaying good sporting spirits.
The hard luck stories belonged to brother and sister, Liam and Stephanie Fossey from Morley. They were both placed 4th amongst 8 and 9 players in their divisions. Liam scored 7.58 to lose bronze by a mere 0.02 points gap while Stephanie scored 7.18 to lose bronze by 0.07 points gap.
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