Local karate and kickboxing students participated in the first annual PMA Shuswap Open Tournament that played host to martial artists from Salmon Arm, Sicamous, Calgary, Kelowna and Kamloops.
The tournament was a huge success filled with karate and tae kwon do participants of all ages and belt levels. All competitors competed in sparring and forms divisions. The Salmon Arm gold, silver and bronze medalists of each division are listed below.
In the 4-5 year division for all belt levels, third place was won by Logan Herrington for the kata and sparring.
For the 6-7 year olds in the white-green belt division, kata results showed Evje Knuston first, David Chancellor second, and Caron Paiment third. In the sparring category, Brody Beasley placed second.
In the blue stripe-brown belt kata division, Oscar Mayes placed first, followed by Sawyer Mayes, second, and Logan Cummings in third place. In sparring, Oscar Mayes was first, Sawyer Mayes second and Alex Smolne third.
For the 8-9 year olds in the white-green belt kata division, Chelsey Chancellor placed second, followed by Austin Beasley in third. The sparring category saw Austin Beasley in third.
The blue stripe-brown belt (short) kata division had Houston Rampton in second place. In sparring, Houston Rampton placed first and Evan Fankhauser took home second.
The blue stripe-brown belt (tall) kata: Taylor Lovegrove placed second, followed by Melissa Vandervoort in third. Melissa Vandervoort also claimed first in sparring.
White-Blue belts (tall), kata had Sam Parkes placing first, with Angelina Ingerhaag tying for third. In sparring, Sam Parkes was second.
For the 12-13 year olds, blue-brown belts (tall), Kerry Brown took home third place in kata and sparring.
For 14+ women green-blue belts, in kata, Danette Rampton took first, Brandy Allison was second and Rebecca Erikson placed third. Sparring saw Rebecca Erikson place first, followed by Danette Rampton in second and Brandy Allison third.
The 14+ women red stripe-brown belts, kata had An-Mei Andreassen placing first, and in third place was Cassidy Hughes. In sparring, An-Mei Andreassen placed second, followed by Rena Kakuda in third.
For the black belts, Denis Cullen took home second place in the women’s sparring division, while she took home third in kata.
Lindsey Christian-Hack of Salmon Arm captured third place in the kata category of the black belts girls 14-17 division.
