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Guyana continue good showing at Shoto Cup Karate tourney
Guyana continued their good showing at the ISKF World Shoto Cup Karate tournament being staged in Canada.
Guyanese team members perform a Kata during the junior segment on Saturday. (Photo compliments of Colin Ming)
Reports emanating from team manager Colin Ming at the event reveal that Guyana has made it through to four team Kata finals along with several individual medal positions fixed for today.
The manager informed via email that, “We have the highest qualifying score for 10-11 boys (Kemo Cornelius, Kevin Yong-Kwong-Poi and Shane Wilkinson), second highest score for 12-13 girls (Christy Dey, Leah Shariff and Chelsea Weekes), highest score for 14-15 girls (Kristina Cheeks, Chontelle Sewett and Anissa Rodrigues) and 14-15 boys (Samuel Ming, Avian Rodrigues and Eric Hing) group (B).”
“Canada lead group (A) 14-15 Boys, however, we got knocked out of the adult Team Kata in the first round by the points system and lost 3 1/2 to 1 1/2 in the men’s Team Kumite.”
It was further disclosed that in results from yesterday, in the morning session in the individual adult Kata for men, Troy Parboo lost in the first round.
The afternoon session started great when Krysten Sewett capitalized on her first round walk over in the women’s individual Kumite. She went on to defeat Nataki Hypolite of Trinidad which then set her up to face the top Canadian, Michelle Novak in the third round.
Krysten won this match without Novak scoring and has now advanced to the finals today when she will compete against Kristen Hoffman and Marcia Ransom of the USA and Maria Maia of Brazil.
Ming informed that, “Nathalie Gibson did not perform to her best in this event. She seemed quite unprepared when she was called up, took long to focus and lost quite easily. The men were then next up but our top Kumite entrant, David Hardy lost in the first round to Cameron King of Barbados.
“King is currently awaiting a disputed referee’s call which knocked him out of the final. Three judges awarded the match to King but the referee either did not see the flags or he just decided to rule his own way for Nilo Quigaman of the Philippines. Troy Parboo also lost his first round match to Christian Leduc, who is one of the top Canadians.”
The manager pointed out, “The team has much to look forward to tomorrow (today) as we have eight athletes in nine individual finals and two teams each for boys and girls for team Kata. We certainly will be doing our best to be among the medalists.”
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