Montréal, November 10, 2024 – A number of Canadian athletes had been in motion this previous week in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the Veteran World Championships and World Kata Championships. Within the veteran class, 14 Canadians will return house with medals round their necks, together with Ahmed Hellal Cherak, newly topped world champion within the under-100 kg M5 class.
Ahmed Hellal Cherak Photograph IJF
The Québécois kicked off his flawless run by ousting George Pissimissis of the USA, following up with a second win towards Philippe Baccou of France. He then secured his ticket to the ultimate by defeating Argentina’s Alejandro Centeno within the semi-final.
Within the day’s final showdown, Cherak was pitted towards Robert Krause of Germany. He received by ippon after two and a half minutes of fight.
Jeff Allen (+100 kg, M2) and Bianca Ockedahl (-52 kg, F3) had been the 2 different Canadians to achieve the finals.
Allen, 39, received his first three bouts of the day earlier than dropping to Brazil’s Rubens Filho within the gold medal match.
As for 42-year-old Ockedahl, she defeated Ana Lucia Perugachi of Ecuador and Elen Merelli of Italy earlier than dropping to Lucie Bronner of France within the remaining.
Ronald Angus (-100 kg, U8) secured a silver medal following a round-robin event during which he posted a document of three wins and just one loss.
Warren Seib (-81 kg, M1), Justin Rashad Chin (-60 kg, M3), Ivan Zaleskikh (-73 kg, M3), Michael Yee (-66 kg, M4), Christopher Smiley (-81 kg, M4), Tim Takashi (-60 kg, M5), Olivier Bry (-90 kg, M6), Kevin Hamer (-73 kg, M8), Laurie Wiltshire (-57 kg, F3), and Isabelle Gélinas (-52 kg, F4) all received bronze medals.
Kata motion aplenty
On the World Kata Championships in Las Vegas, Thomas Warolin and Zachary Mainville had been the one Canadians to qualify for the ultimate rounds. The duo took sixth place within the U23 Nage-no-Kata remaining, with 341 factors.
In senior Nage-no-Kata, Canada was represented by Isack Berger and Jean-Sébastien Roy, in addition to by Shane Rooney and Xiao Kang Hu. Sadly, neither group certified for the finals.
Within the senior Katame-no-Kata class, neither the duo comprised of Kelly Palmer and Wesley Enns, nor the one comprised of Edward Zupancic and Andrei Oudovikine completed within the prime six. They subsequently didn’t qualify for the finals.
Juliette Mireault and Simon Gauthier-Hansen additionally did not qualify for the Ju-no-Kata remaining.
The event got here to an in depth on Sunday with the Kime-no-Kata, Goshin Jutsu, U23 Katame-no-Kata, and U23 Ju-no-Kata occasions.
Canadians Shane Legros and Dan Rusu (Kime-no-Kata), Mario Pageau and Martin Vallières (Kime-no-Kata), Daniel Chook and Masoud Naeimi (Goshin Jutsu), Allyn Takahashi and Tony Walby (Goshin Jutsu), and Ivan Fournier and Pierre Pelletier (Goshin Jutsu) all did not qualify for his or her respective finals.
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Written by Sportcom for Judo Canada
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