2022 SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL OPEN - 26TH – 27TH FEBRUARY
We had a much larger contingent in the Sydney International given that Junior Boys and Girls were included in the program and that it was on “home” turf.Congratulations to all 31 Budokan Judo Club athletes who contested the 2022 Sydney International Open.In the mainstream age categories we had 26 athletes contesting a massive 37 divisions winning:
- 23 medals: 8 Gold, 4 Silver and 11 Bronze with 3 x 5th and 1 x 7th places.
Additionally 2 athletes competed in Veterans and 1 athlete competed in No Limits adding another Bronze medal for a total of 40 divisions and 24 medals: 8 Gold, 4 Silver and 12 Bronze with 3 x 5th and 1 x 7th places, 4 pairs of athletes contested Kata divisions resulting in 3 Silver level performances and 1 Bronze.Details follow:
- Ethan Zhang U30kg Junior Boys – Gold
- Isaac Murkins U34kg Junior Boys 5th
- Junning Mak U32kg Junior Girls – Participated
- Sarah Jones U36kg Junior Girls – Participated
- Dasha Platonov U36kg Junior Girls – Gold
- Nicholas Platonov U36kg Senior Boys - Gold
- Crosby Peake U45kg Senior Boys - Gold
- Ben Zollinger U50kg Senior Boys – Bronze
- Tim Reshanov U50kg Senior Boys - Participated
- Christian Curby U70kg Senior Boys - Participated
- Lilly Zollinger U44/48kg Senior Girls - Gold
- Shanning Mak U52kg Senior Girls – Bronze
- Eva Murkins U52kg Senior Girls - Silver
- Demin Cai U50kg Cadet Men - Participated
- Aaron Xu U50kg Cadet Men - Silver
- Max Zollinger U55kg Cadet Men - Silver
- Will Zollinger U60kg Cadet Men - Silver, Junior Men - Bronze, Senior Men - Bronze
- Flynn Mogilin U/66kg Cadet Men - 5th
- Phoenix Edwards U66kg Cadet Men - Bronze, Junior Men – 5th, Senior Men - Participated
- Ali Yuldashev U66kg – Cadet Men Bronze, Junior Men - Bronze
- Elisha Mistree U48kg Cadet Women – Participated, Junior Women 5th
- Clarissa Vumbaca U48kg Cadet Women - Gold, Junior Women - Bronze, Senior Women - Gold
- Bianca Tandean U57kg Cadet Women – Bronze, Junior & Senior Women – Participated
- Jacinta Vumbaca U52kg Junior Women - Gold, Senior Women - Silver
- Isabella Vumbaca U48kg Senior Women – Bronze
- Daniel Kennedy – Open Age Veteran’s Men – Bronze
- Scott Young – Open Age Veteran’s Men – Participated
- Lynne McCredden – No Limits Women 78kg - Participated
Additionally 5 athletes contested the Kata competition as follows:
- Aaron Xu and Demin Cai – Bronze for Junior Nage-No-Kata
- Bernhard and Bjorn Tandean – Silver level for Nage-No-Kata and for Katame-No-Kata
- Bernhard and Bianca Tandean – Silver level for Ju-No-Kata