Curtin Elite Judo Club Perth

A big congratulations to everyone who stepped up and competed at the Judo Ryu WA Open Championships!

We’re incredibly proud of the team for getting out there, challenging themselves and representing Elite Judo Club.

Every competition is another opportunity to learn, gain experience and improve.

Well done, team!

AIJ Open Tournament Results:

Heydon Chan - 1st Place🏅
Anson Lee - 1st Place🏅
Kaan Tunali - 1st Place🏅
Stephen Omodunbi - 1st Place🏅
Hugh McCormack - 2nd 🥈 and 3rd 🥉
Denz David Padernal - 3rd 🥉
Benedict Tan - 4th

Great and exciting matches from everyone on the team. Onwards and upwards!!

Neil Adams Judo

It’s been a huge weekend for our team on the Gold Coast at the Australian National Championships. Every athlete returned home with a national medal.

Roman Aizikov competed in the Cadets -73kg division. At his first National Championships, he finished with a bronze medal in a pool of 15 competitors, winning 3 of his 4 matches. Not bad at all considering he has only been doing judo for two and a half years.

Angela Chan competed across three divisions: Veterans, Senior Women, and Kyu Grades. She walked away with gold in the Veterans division and bronze in the Kyu Grades. Both of her losses were razor-close contests that could easily have gone the other way.

Cameron Tomuli made his National Championships debut in the U13 Boys -66kg division. After suffering a first-round loss, he bounced back strongly to score a clean ippon and secure the bronze medal.

Tevita Takayawa competed in the Senior Men +100kg division. He did what he does best by chasing big throws and spectacular ippons. After his opening contest, he fought his way back through his next two matches to claim bronze.

Stephen Omodunbi competed in both the Senior Men -90kg and Senior Male Kyu Grades -90kg divisions. On Saturday, he won his opening match before coming up against Australia's Commonwealth Games representative in the next round. After some great exchanges, he eventually went down by ippon after just 1 minute and 30 seconds and was unfortunately knocked out of the draw.

Hugh McCormack also competed in both the Senior Men -90kg and Senior Male Kyu Grades -90kg divisions. He started with a win and ultimately finished 7th in the highly competitive category.

The highlight of the weekend came on Sunday when Hugh and Stephen met in the final of the Senior Male Kyu Grades -90kg division after fighting their way through their respective brackets. While teammates don't always enjoy facing one another, they have continually pushed each other to improve over the years, and the result showed.

It's a big week for Curtin Elite Judo Club as 6 of our athletes head to the Gold Coast to represent Western Australia at the 2026 Australian National Judo Championships.

The Championships will take place from 5–7 June 2026 at the Gold Coast Sports & Leisure Centre in Carrara, Queensland, bringing together some of the best judoka from across the country.

Representing Curtin Elite Judo Club and Western Australia are:

🔹 Roman Aizikov – Cadet Men -73kg & Junior Men -73kg
🔹 Stephen Omodunbi – Senior Men -90kg & Senior Male Kyu -90kg
🔹 Hugh McCormack – Senior Men -90kg & Senior Male Kyu -90kg
🔹 Wai Ting Chan – Senior Women -63kg, Senior Female Kyu -63kg and Veterans F3 -70 kg
🔹 Tevita Takayawa – Senior Men +100kg
🔹 Cameron Tomuli – U13 Boys -60kg

We are incredibly proud of our athletes and all the hard work they have put in to earn their place on the national stage. We wish them the very best as they compete against Australia's top judoka and represent both our club and Western Australia with pride.

Good luck team!

Mondays at EJC 🔥

Congratulations to everyone who competed at the 2026 Kano Open Competition! The team stepped up again, and it was great to see everyone continuing to develop their judo and, most importantly, grow together as a team.

A special mention to Simon, who started judo in his 50s and can now tick off competing in a judo tournament, and also to Heydon, who bounced back after his first competition to have two epic matches today against formidable opponents.

Great results from the weekend.

Huge congratulations to Hugh McCormack on taking bronze in the Under 90kg Senior division at the Mandurah Oceania Open 2026 — awesome effort!

And well done to Roman Ayzikov on winning silver in the Under 73kg Cadet division at the Mandurah Cadet Oceania Cup 2026 — great performance!

The entire club is all very proud!

The Oceania Open and Cup will take place this weekend in Mandurah for the cadet, junior, and senior divisions.

Saturday will feature the senior division, while Sunday will include both the cadet and junior divisions.

With athletes from 16 nations competing in the Oceania Open and 8 nations in the Junior Cup, this will be a strong international event.

Elite Judo Club has athletes competing across multiple divisions, proudly representing Australia and Russia.

Competing athletes:

Alex Foster – Senior (-63kg)
Hugh McCormack – Senior (-81kg)
Stephen Omodunbi – Senior (-81kg)
Roman Aizikov – Cadet & Junior (-73kg)

Wishing you all the best on the mats this weekend 🥋

AIJ Senior and Veteran Competition - an awesome effort from our team! Really can't be prouder of the direction we are heading.

Thanks AIJ for hosting.