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Karate club return from world championships with 40 medal haul
Date published: 08 November 2011
Seven members of The DOJO Karate Centre in Rochdale have returned from the WTKA World Championships with a haul of 40 medals.
The championships were attended by over 3,000 competitors from across the world and The DOJO say that their squad, led by Sensei Irfan Ansari, was better than ever before.
Overall The DOJO Squad returned with 16 gold, 20 silver and 4 bronze medals.
Sensei Ansari said: “I am very happy with the results mashallah.
“Next year we hope to convert those silvers into gold as there is still plenty of room for improvement.
“So far this year we have won 87 trophies/medals.
“We still have time to reach 100 with one competition remaining and inshallah we’ll do it.”
The following members walked away with medals:
- Jack Jolliffe - 5 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze
- Huseyn Mikayilov - 4 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze
- Kieren Roberts - 4 gold, 3 silver
- Antonio Russo - 2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze
- Vanessa Russo - 1 gold, 1 bronze
- Natalie Dean - 4 silver
- Irfan Ansari - 2 silver
The club would like to thank Lee Jolliffe, Graciano Russo, Mark Roberts and Dergah Mikayilov for all their volunteered help on tour.
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Congratulations to our son Kieren and the rest of the dojo squad on their massive success at the Karate World Championships, it was a pleasure to see them all in action and their behaviour was exemplary throughout the compitition.
Also a big thank you to Sensi Irfan who put a lot of extra work in with the team outside normal lesson times to ensure they performed to their best.
Results speak for themselves, the dojo is the place to train for world class tuition.
By Mark Roberts @ 09/11/2011 08:27:02