Newsletter Newsletter 3/2007 Finals of the Czech National TKD League 2006 – 2007

On 26.5.2007 took place a fourth and final round of Czech National Taekwon-Do ITF League. This time all the 90 competitors from Central and South Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia met in Brandys nad Labem. Final results have already been made public on the Czech National Taekwon-Do Union website and so let us mainly emphasize the names of overall winners - holders of the title Champion of Czech National League 2006 -2007.

In the children female category the trophy and title goes to Denisa Ryznerova from Mlada Boleslav while children male winner was Milan Zach from Ceske Budejovice. In the female junior category triumphed Katerina Splavcova from Ricany and in junior male Michal Machota once again defended his title. No surprise at all are also the winners in senior categories: Pavel Kupr in the male and Hana Krizova in the female category. Overall winning club is Taekwon-Do ITF Kwang Gae Ricany.

A phenomenon in the children categories for this year were the competitors from Ceske Budejovice. Six out of ten in the first ten places speak for all. Also quite interesting is the result in the senior female category. First three places were taken by competitors from different countries. The winner was Hana Krizova from Czech Republic, silver went to Lucie Korytarova from Slovakia and bronze was taken by Yekaterina Smirnova from Latvia. Also thrilling was the competition in the children female category. Denisa Ryznerova had a head of only a single point to Natalka Niznikova from Ricany. Even more, both these girls have also the same weight category in sparring, so their bout in the last round was also a bout for the overall winner title. Denisa did a very good job there and clearly won it. Neglible point difference was also in the junior female category, where Katerina Splavcova won by only four points and defeated her club-mate Nikola Telvakova from Ricany.

An important role this year also played the model sparring category. Though often condemned by many at the start of this season, we had competitors in this category from well over the half of all participating clubs in the last round.

This year the League has once again made a step forward. This was enabled by the growing realization team and the number of participants. A new club from Cebin started to participate regularly this year and we also warmly welcomed clubs from Slovakia, namely Ge Baek and Drako Smolenice. We had a great participation in the third round, where Latvian Federation and Taekwon-Do Tiger Ljubljana from Slovenia were present. We would like to thank to the cities and sponsors supporting the league. Especially the County of Central Bohemia, city of Ricany, city of Brandys, city of Pecky and all other sponsor and organizers of all the respective rounds.

We sincerely congratulate to all the new winners and all other participants and we wish them all good luck in the new upcoming season 2007-2008.

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