Newsletter 4/2008 Vision TKD UK Open Championships
All photos by courtesy of DE Photos
On Saturday 29th November Mr Philip Lear 5th Degree and chairman of Vision TKD organised with the English Taekwon-Do Association the first Vision TKD UK Open Championships. The competition took place at the impressive K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley and attracted 350 competitors from all over England, Scotland and Wales.
These championships attracted current and ex World and European champions like Julia Cross from Scotland, Neil Ernest from Wales and Lisa Dennis & Zak Espi from England. The categories covered all age ranges from Under 13’s, 13-17yrs, 18-35yrs and 36yrs and above. The atmosphere was exciting as a large group from PUMA, headed up by Mr Gary Bradshaw 6th Degree, competed for the first time with our ITF England and showed some excellent quality by winning 12 Gold’s across all the categories.
There were many competitors who had an outstanding tournament winning more than one gold with the overall trophies going to:
| Name | School | Category |
| Julia Cross | South Queensferry | 18-35yrs Black Belts |
| Charlie Bishop-Williams | Brighton | 13-17yrs Black Belts |
| Martyn Lloyd | GMB Nottingham | 36yrs+ |
| James Howard | Virtue | 18-35yrs Colour Belts |
| Nathan Smith | Total TKD | 13-17yrs Colour Belts |
| Joshua Quansah | Croydon | Under 13’s |
After a very long day the final results of the Championships placed the schools as follows with Lear TKD winning the top spot:
Free Powerade was also given out to all Black Belts courtesy of Coca-Cola and the photos were taken by DE Photo, more can be found here.
Many thanks to all the schools who supported the competition, next years event has already been booked for Saturday 11th July at the K2 in Crawley. Vision TKD would also like to thank the many referees who worked tirelessly all day to get the competition finished and we look forward to your participation at our championships next year.
