2013 Cup of Montreal
Last Sunday (March 17) our team came back from the Cup of Montreal tournament trip.
This is one of the 3 biggest and the most popular tournaments in Quebec that attracts many clubs all over Canada. Many Ontario, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and of course Quebec clubs participated in this competition.
Our team brought 4 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze medals and one Best Spirit award trophy:
Kiril Sozin -90kg, Senior, Gold
Dennis Bragilevsky -60kg, U18, Gold
Danil Neyolov -73kg, U18, Gold
Luka Khotelishvili -66kg, U15, Gold
Olga Parovik -48kg, U15, Silver
Daulet Merkenbaev -100kg, Seniors, Silver
Grigoriy Simanovich -38kg, U13, Silver
Jonathan Xinkas -33kg, U11, Silver
Ruslan Shukhly -55kg, U21, Bronze
Sava Antic -55kg, U15, Bronze
Nikita Rudakov -60kg, U18, Bronze
Cheers all our club champions and medalists! Way to go guys!
2013 Pedro’s Challenge
Congratulations to the 2013 Pedro’s Challenge medalists (Boston, MA, USA):
Last Sunday (Feb 24) our team has returned from a 3 days trip to Boston where we have participated in Annual Pedro’s Challenge tournament (one of 3 Zebra tour pointable US tournaments).
Also our kids had an opportunity to meet and train together with Russian Judo Olympic champions and medalists: Arsen Galstyan, (2012 1st place -60), Mansur Isaev (2012 1st place -73), Tagir Khaibulaev (2012 1st place -100), Khasanbi Taov (2004 3rd place -90), Kamil Magomedov (European bronze medalist) as well as with the US Olympics Gold medalist – Kayla Harrison.
The tournament was tough but our team brought 8 medals. We congratulate Pedro’s Challenge 2013 medalists:
– Nikita – 1 silver medal
– Luka – 1 bronze medal
– Stephania – 1 silver and 1 bronze medals
– Lasha – 2 silvers medals
2013 Georgii Zantaraia at Taifu
We had the honor of hosting Georgii Zantaraia’s (World Champion 2009, European champion 2011, and many other awards winner) judo clinics at our club for 2 days January 11-12. It’s been a great experience!
2012 Taifu Judo Club
2012 Competitions Canada
2012 Quebec Open International Tournament
Taifu Judo athletes have competed at the 2012 Quebec Open International Tournament on October 6th, 2012 (Montreal, QC) and brought home 7 medals: 3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze medals. Great results!
2012 Canadian National Judo Championship
We are glad to share with you the excellent results our team has achieved on the 2012 Canadian National Judo Championship.
Our team got 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. Here is the list of our team members who have contributed to this great achievement. Thank you guys!
Kiril Sozin – U17 – -90 – 2nd
Ruslan Shykhly – U17 – -46 – 1st
Ruslan Shykhly – U20 – -55 – 3rd
Roman Abramovich – Seniors – -81 – 3rd
Roman Neyolov – Masters – +81 – 2nd
2012 Am-Can International Judo Challenge (Buffalo, NY, USA)
2012 Am-Can International Judo Challenge was a huge success for our club:
– 15 athletes participated
– 13 medals
– Club Trophy (1-st in 37 years for a Canadian team)
2012 Liberty Bell (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
25th Annual Liberty Bell 2012 results:
Kiril Sozin – 2 gold medals
Olga Parovyk – 2 gold medals
Danil Neyolov – silver medal
Dennis Yanovski – silver medal
Dennis Bragilevskiy – bronze medal
Grisha – bronze medal
Kesha – bronze medal