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DOMESTIC UPDATE – SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL OPEN – 26 FEBRUARY

Congratulations to the 31 Budokan athletes who contested 39 divisions winning 25 (64%) medals:4 Gold, 10 Silver and 11 Bronze medals plus a number of unplaced athletes with matches won. Details follow:                                                                                                                                               Junior Girls:

  • Gold:                   Junning Mak
  • Silver:                 Joy Ma

Junior Boys:

  • Silver:                 Isaac Murkins
  • Bronze:              Levi Murkins, Jeremy Tan
  • 5th:                       Donny Zhang, Leon Park, William Dong

Senior Girls:

  • Silver:                 Dasha Platonov, Lilly Zollinger, Tamsin Black
  • Bronze:              Eva Murkins, Shanning Mak

Junior Boys:

  • Gold:                   Nicholas Platonov
  • Bronze:              Momo Jiang
  • 5th:                       Daniil Savytskyi, Johnny Ma
  • 9th:                       Ethan Zhang, Marcus Liao, Ben Zollinger, Tim Reshanov

Cadet Women:

  • Gold:                   Bianca Tandean
  • Bronze:              Jaeda Liao

Cadet Men:

  • Bronze:              Crosby Peake, Aaron Xu
  • 7th :                      Demin Cai
  • 9th :                      Flynn Mogilin

Junior Women:

  • Silver:                 Clarissa Vumbaca
  • Bronze:              Bianca Tandean

Junior Men:

  • Silver:                 Ali Yuldashev
  • 9th:                       Aaron Xu,
  • Other:                 Flynn Mogilin

Senior Women:

  • Silver:                 Clarissa Vumbaca, Bianca Tandean

Senior Men:

  • Bronze:              Ali Yuldashev
  • Other:                 Flynn Mogilin

No Limits Women:

  • Bronze:              Lynne McCredden

No Limits Men:

  • Gold and Silver:  Bernhard Tandean

DOMESTIC UPDATE – MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL OPEN 11- 12 MARCH

Congratulations our small team of 9 athletes who went south of the border to contest 12 divisions winning 9 (75%) medals: 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze, plus a number of unplaced athletes with matches won. Details follow:                                                                                                               Senior Girls:

  • Gold:                   Lilly Zollinger

Senior Boys:

  • Gold:                   Nicholas Platonov
  • Silver:                 Ben Zollinger
  • Bronze:              Daniil Savytskyi

Cadet Women:

  • Gold:                   Bianca Tandean

Cadet Men:

  • Gold:                   Max Zollinger
  • Bronze:              Aaron Xu
  • 4th:                       Demin Cai
  • 7th:                       Flynn Mogilin

Junior Women:

  • Silver:                 Bianca Tandean

Junior Men:

  • 5th:                       Aaron Xu

Senior Women:

  • Silver:                 Bianca Tandean

DOMESTIC UPDATE – NSW STATE TITLES 18-19 MARCH

Congratulations to the 27 Budokan athletes who contested 30 divisions at the State Titles resulting in 10 State Titles won and 15 medals (50%), those being: 10 Gold, 5 Silver, 4 Bronze, plus 3 x 4th/5th places. Great results considering we had a number of athletes out with injuries. Additionally, Bernhard and Bjorn Tandean won Silver on the Senior Katame-No-Kata competition and Trent Black won Silver in the Junior Nage-No-Kata competition. Competition details follow.                                                                                                                                                                                    Junior Girls

  • 1st                         U/36kg              Junning Mak
  • 3rd                        U/36kg              Joy Ma

Junior Boys

  • 3rd                        U/34kg              Levi Murkins
  • 5th                         U/34kg              Donny Zhang
  • 9th                         U/34kg              Trent Black
  • 1st                         U/38kg              Isaac Murkins
  • 2nd                        U/50kg              Leon Park

Senior Girls

  • 2nd                        U/40kg              Dasha Platonov
  • U/P                      U/48kg              Jaslyn Dhanoa
  • 1st                         U/50kg              Eva Murkins
  • 2nd                        U/50kg              Lilly Zollinger
  • 1st                         U/57&63kg     Tamsin Black
  • U/P                      U/57&63kg     Shanning Mak
  • U/P                      U/63kg              Shanning Mak

Senior Boys

  • 1st                         U/36kg              Ethan Zhang
  • 3rd                        U/36kg              Johnny Ma
  • 1st                         U/40kg              Nicholas Platonov
  • 2nd                        U/40kg              Daniil Savytskyi
  • 9th                         U/50kg              Yusef Helal
  • 5th                         U/55kg              Ben Zollinger

Cadet Women

  • U/P                      U/70&O/70    Anita Nourafshan                     

Cadet Men

  • 1st                         U/50kg              Crosby Peake
  • U/P                      U/50kg              Demin Cai
  • 1st                         U/55kg              Aaron Xu
  • U/P                      U/90kg              Daniel Holley

Junior Men

  • 3rd                        U/60kg              Aaron Xu
  • 1st                         U/66kg              Ali Yuldashev

Senior Men

  • 1st                         U/66kg              Ali Yuldashev
  • 4th                         U/100kg           Matt Hull

Veteran Men

  • 2nd                        U/81kg              Scott Young

DOMESTIC UPDATE – CENTRAL COAST OPEN – 7TH MAY

The competition notice is attached to the email which includes this Newsletter. This is a great pre-Nationals event or for the less experienced athletes, a great event to build your competition experience. This event tries to match athletes within various grading bands as well as weight divisions. 

  • Please note that the Weigh-in format is different this year. You must weigh-in at the club and enter your correct weight division when you enter the Smoothcomp on-line competition entry process. The competition Draws will be completed when entries close and will be set on the basis of your entered weight division. Physical weigh-in checks will be done at the competition but if you are overweight for your entered weight division at that time, you will not be allowed to compete in your entered division or in a heavier division so please enter your correct weight division during the entry process. If you have already entered and need to check your weight at the club, please do so asap. Pre-entries are on-line via Smoothcomp at https://smoothcomp.com/en/event/11237 and close on 4th May. 
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NEW JUDOGI SUPPLIER - IPPON.GEAR IJF APPROVED AND OTHER JUDOGIS

Budokan has entered into an agreement with Ippon.Gear Judogis to supply IJF approved Judogis for our international athletes and any Budokan athlete wanting to train in the highest quality Gis. Please see https://ippongear.myshopify.com/. As these Gis are quite expensive, Budokan athletes will be charged the exact discounted cost price to the club which is 20% less than the marked (RRP) prices on the website,  plus postage from Melbourne. Please see Rob if you want us to order one of these Gis. They have to be purchased by the club to attract the club discount. This arrangement replaces our previous agreement for Mizuno Judogis. We will retain the existing supply agreement with our current supplier for the “Budokan logo” embroidered Gis which are really very good quality and great value-for-money.

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