2019 Reports | CALGARY FRIENDSHIP TOURNAMENT

2019 CALGARY FRIENDSHIP TOURNAMENT

16 November, 2019

The 17th annual Calgary Friendship Tournament was held at Christ the King School in Calgary AB on November 16. This year 158 individuals participated in the event. Divisions were held in non-contact and knockdown kumite as well as Kata. As in the past all participants were put on a team and gathered points for their teams with each victory. The event allows our members a friendly atmosphere to experience what it is like to compete in a tournament. The event also acts as forum to give officials more experience in judging and refereeing .  Results were as follows:

Non-Contact

• Division 0 - Marcus Barrett
• Division 1- Hayden Dilschneider 
• Division 2 - Jason Marr
• Division 3 - Tanguy LeBerre
• Division 4 - Jorge Nava
• Division 5 - Nithi Madanayake
• Division 6 - Danica Zjalic
• Division 7 - Gabi Madejski
• Division 8 - Andrew Depner
• Division 9 - Kirk Parker

Knockdown

• Division 10 - Alex Hinevici
• Division 11 - Spencer Tkachuk
• Division 12 - Anderson Ludwig
• Division 13 - Denis Nacu
• Division 14 - Kai Rookwood
• Division 15 - Shogo Nakahara
• Division 16 - Charlie Woodford
• Division 17 - Leo Jensen
• Division 18 - Taya Nield

Kata

• Tyson Marr
• Tomonari Nakahara

Specialty

• Best New Student - Greyson Shulhan
• Best New Student - Marcus Barrett
• Spirit - Danica Zjalic
• Spirit - Alex Hinevici

This year it was team one  who ended up in first place with 74 points for the win. Congratulations! As always, whether as a participant, official, marshal or volunteer everyone did an outstanding job and gained very valuable ring experience. This event is only made possible because of the co-operation, time and help of all of the members of Calgary Kyokushin Karate. A great big Thank you goes out to all of you for once again working together to make this happen. THIS IS KARATE.