Youth Olympics – Australian team selections – Melbourne, 6 December 2009
The selection competition for the Australian representative team for the WTF World Qualification Tournament for Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is scheduled to be held at Aqualink Box Hill, Surrey Drive, Boxhill Victoria on Sunday 6th December 2009.
The event will be hosted by Taekwondo Australia and 5 Male and 5 Female Youth Weight Divisions (as per information below) will be contested. Only 3 Male and 3 Female divisions will be selected to contest the YOG Qualification competition being held in Tijuana, Mexico (3-4 March 2010). The successful male and female players will be determined after the competition and will be selected in accordance with the national selection criteria agreed between Taekwondo Australia (TA) and the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC).
Players must hold kukkiwon junior black belt qualifications and born between 1 January 1993 and 31 December 1994- ie will be 16 and 17 years old by the end of December 2010. The weight divisions are:
Male:
- Under 48 kgs
- 48 to 55 kgs
- 55 to 63 kgs
- 63 to 73 kgs
- over 73 kgs
Female:
- under 44 kgs
- 44 to 49 kgs
- 49 to 55 kgs
- 55 to 63 kgs
- over 63 kgs
Roy Khoh says:
November 30th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Good luck Kennedy!
Kennedy Blowfield from the Padbury club will be contesting this event. So obviously, he must be 17 years old by the end of next year.
Or are you younger still, Kennedy?
Kim Seng says:
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Go Kennedy. All of ATA barrack for you.
Roy Khoh says:
December 7th, 2009 at 5:53 am
I think it’s a good idea to train up for events like this.
This is a selection tournament to represent Australia in an international event. It should be of a higher caliber than club level, state level, and to some extent, even national level competitions.
One self should be able to determine how long, prior, they will need for preparation. It use to take me less than 3 weeks to get my fitness level up. That was almost a decade ago. Nowadays, I think I will need longer.
Hopefully you can gain something useful out of this, Kennedy, and make sure you are well prepared for your next major tournament.
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