Association Do Shotokan Karate-Guyana excels ...1KD Caribbean Karate Championships

Association Do Shotokan Karate-Guyana excels …1KD Caribbean Karate Championships

Sep 19, 2014 Sports

Association Do Shotokan Karate-Guyana (ASK-G / YMCA) returned to Guyana

The successful Association Do Shotokan Karate-Guyana, YMCA team after their excellent performances in T&T.

with a total of fifty (50) medals which were won at the recently held 1KD Caribbean Karate Championships held in the Twin Island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago which attracted 7 countries.
Twenty four (24) Karatekas from the ASK-G YMCA Dojo came up against the best from several Caribbean countries in the team and individual Kata, Kumite, Embu and Bunkai. The fifty (50) medals comprised of 16 Gold, 24 Silver and10 Bronze.
In the adult male category both Patrick Cheeks and Keith Beaton lost in the second round of the individual Kumite in close encounters that could have gone either way. The trio of Patrick Cheeks, Keith Beaton and Roger Peroune won silver medals in the Team Kumite; Shane Rahaman replaced Beaton in the trio to win silver in team Kata.
They lost to Barbados in the team Kumite and Trinidad & Tobago in the Team Kata. In the Individual Male Adult Kata, Roger Peroune won bronze with point one of a point separating first, second and third respectively.
In the Individual Male 17-19 category, Shane Rahaman won bronze medals in both the Kumite and Kata events. In the Female Individual Adult Kumite, reigning champion Nathalie Gibson of Guyana lost in the final to Adanna Moore of Grenada having held that title for the past four years.
The Female 17-19 Individual Kata saw Kristina Cheeks and Lakeisha Pearson securing gold and silver respectively for Guyana. Lakeisha created history by becoming the first female karateka of the ASK-G from Linden to secure a medal at this level of competition.
Guyana’s Kemo Cornelius, Shane Wilkinson and Nixon Cheeks easily captured gold in the Boys 14-16 Team Kata which they repeated in Team Bunkai and Team Enbu. Cornelius then won gold in the Individual Kata and Nixon Cheeks got gold in the Individual Kumite.
This made them the most decorated athletes from Guyana, having both won four gold medals each. The 14-16 Female category saw Leah Shariff, Kelly-Ann Fortune and Theresa Sampat winning gold in the Team Kata.
They took silver in the Team Bunkai with Leah settling for bronze in the Individual Kumite. Theresa Sampat then won gold in the Individual Kumite, 11-13 age category with Kelly-Ann Fortune copping silver.
ASK-G’s Medharishi Ramdhani teamed up with GKC’s Aubrey Bettencourt and Kenrick Cheeks to win silver in the Team Embu and bronze in Team Kata and Team Bunkai in the Masters division. Medharishi also won bronze in Individual Kata Masters division.
The other outstanding performances were in the Male 8-10 age group; Daniel Jailall, Aryan Singh and Jordan Fae Kong winning silver in both Team Kata and Bunkai. The local athletes are now focusing attention on preparation for the World Championship scheduled to be held in Toronto Canada in 2015.