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Czech Open returned to Prague


More than 25 years ago, Czech Open began writing its history in Prague. Unfortunately, a long hiatus followed and it was not revived until 2003. The then management of Sonkal stood by its renewal together with the Czech Taekwon-Do ITF. For several years the competition was held in Třeboň and then moved to Nymburk.

Last year the Czech Open was scheduled back to the capital city and the initiator of this change was the head of Sonkal Master Ondřej Vrábel with the then president of the association Mark Lazor. Unfortunately Marek did not see this return in person because he died very unexpectedly in September last year. However, his spirit was with us in the hall of the Řepy Sports Centre during the whole weekend from 3rd to 5th March, because the Czech Open title was supplemented by the Marek Lazor Memorial.

A very large Czech and international participation descended on Prague Řepy - 387 competitors from 12 countries and 41 schools. The largest team was the Estonian team for which it was part of the preparation for the European Championships in April. Saturday's ceremony included a symbolic minute of silence for Marek Lazor. This was followed by the presentation of awards to the winners of the 2022 Federation Rankings, where our members once again scored proficiently and Sonkal won the overall school ranking!

The first categories of pupils, juniors, seniors and seniors then got underway on five wrestling courts. The juniors and junior girls competed on Sunday. We collected a number of medals over Saturday and Sunday and you can see a summary of them here.

Thanks to the very large international participation, there was always something going on in the hall and especially the sparring matches had a great momentum, there was just so much to watch!

The Sonkal players took home several trophies for the most successful individuals from the Czech Open:
- Jan Sekera, older child
- Tereza Štekerová, adult female
- Ondřej Faltiin, older junior male

Sonkal didn't miss out either - we won the cup for the second most successful school (behind the first Estonia and ahead of the third Silla).

See 667 photos and video highlights. We will add a full video report on Sunday evening. Both videos were filmed and edited by Alexandr Mach.

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