Blackrock Taekwon-Do

Our final tournament of the season, this weekend in Barcelona ☀️

Well done to our team that took part in the Total Taekwon-Do Championships last weekend. We had some really strong performances.

Blackbelt Results:
Amy Sullivan - Sparring🥈, Open Tul🥉
Jason Cullinane - Tul🥈, Open Tul🥉
Gar Fleming - Tul🥈, Sparring🏅, Open Sparring🥉
David Lyons - Tul🥉, Sparring🥈, Open Sparring🥈
David O Donoghue - Tul🥉, Sparring🥇

Colour Belt Results:
Sam - Tul🥉, Sparring🥈
Messi - Tul🥉, Sparring 🥇
Lucas - Tul🥈, Sparring🥈
Jack - Tul🥈, Sparring🥉
Omar - Tul🥉, Sparring 🥈
Saoirse - Tul🥉, Sparring🥇
Edwin - Tul🥈
Freddie - Tul🥉, Sparring🥇
Max - Sparring🥉
Hasan - Tul🥉, Sparring🥇
Bill - Tul🥇
Mark - Tul🥉, Sparring🥇

Best of luck our 19 competitors taking part in the Total Taekwon-Do Championships this Sunday in MTU.

Well done to everyone who tested at the end of season colour belt grading last Wednesday

Results from Junior Class:
Thady Crowley - promoted to yellow tag
Killian O Sullivan - promoted to Yellow tag
Julian Winska - promoted to Yellow tag
Hasan Alkabi - promoted to Yellow tag
Polly Power - promoted to Yellow tag
Hugh Coakley - promoted to Yellow tag
Frankie Niezgoda - promoted to Green tag
Sam Sobolewska - prompted to Green gag
Max Duka - promted to Green tag
Bill Cronin - promoted to Green Belt
Saoirse Keane - promoted to Green Belt
Edwin Prusinowski - promoted to Green Belt
Freddie Vernon - promoted to Green Belt
Edward Cronin - promoted to Blue tag

Results from Adult/Teen Class:
Sam Hegarty - promoted to Green tag
Messi Camal - promoted to Green tag
Jack O Donoghue - promoted to Blue tag
Aiden Cronin - promoted to Red tag
Sophia Cronin - promoted to Reg tag
Aiden Cronin - promoted to Red tag

Congratulations to Jason Cullinane and Rory Hurley who both tested successfully for 1st Degree Black Belt last weekend.

Best of luck to our guys taking part in the ITF European Team Championships tomorrow in Reading, UK.

David O Donoghue
David Lyons
Cormac Harrington
Amy Sullivan
Kelly Walsh (Cork ITF Taekwon-Do Mahon)
Gar Fleming - Coach
Paul Manning - Coach

Amy will also compete in a single matched bout against the UK's World Champion, Chloe Whelan.

Congrats to Cormac Harrington on being awarded “Tommy Burns perpetual trophy” for his achievements and progress in 2024/25. Cormac had a great year in TKD. Performing and progressing at a rapid rate that Tommy would be proud of.
Thanks to Anne and Mark and the previous members of Crosshaven TKD for giving us such a lovely evening. ❤️

Strong performance from all at the grading last Wednesday evening.

Results from Junior Class:
Max Duka - promoted to yellow tag
Yusef Ihab - promoted to yellow tag
Frankie Niezgoda - promoted to yellow tag
Livia Barry - promoted to yellow tag
Rowan Barry - promoted to yellow belt
Emma Galvin - promoted to yellow belt
Dara Galvin - promoted to yellow belt
Saoirse Keane - promoted to green tag
Bill Cronin - promoted to green tag
Edward Cronin - promoted to green belt
Jack O Donoghue - promoted to green belt
Mark Petrenko - promoted to blue belt

Results from Adult/Teen Class:
Messi Camal - promoted to yellow tag
Leen Saeed - promoted to yellow tag
Sam Hegarty - promoted to yellow belt
Roisin Cussen - promoted to yellow belt
Mark Schmiedel - promoted to yellow belt
Gabriel Gaspar - promoted to green tag
Daniel Cerretani - promoted to blue tag
Alessio Cerretani - promoted to blue tag
Lucas Schoenmakers - promoted to blue belt
Liudmyla Petrenko - promoted to blue belt
Rory Hurley - promoted to black tag
Jason Cullinane - promoted to black tag

Well done Cormac and Gar representing Blackrock TKD today in the Ulster championship in Silverbridge.
Gold for Cormac in Sparring and silver in patterns.
Bronze for Gar in sparring. 💪🥋

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The first round of orders will close on Wednesday 17th December, with delivery at the end of January.
Follow the link to place your order:
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