9.9.2017 / 20th Adult World Championship

Sonkal at the World championship

What looked like music from distant future at the beginning now is getting really close. We are talking about World Championship of seniors (the twelfth in the order). Foursome of students of our school is about to visit Pyongyang in North Korea.
At first, Ondřej Vrábel and other two referees Rostislav Kaňka and Tomáš Kuba went to the Far East on 10th of September. Not that it is necessary to go to the venue in advance, but such a trip is explicitly asking for several days visiting of China, Beijing specifically.

The threesome of contestants – Tereza Žilinská, Tereza Štekerová and Jiří Novák will set off for the trip via Brussel and Beijing on 14th of September early in the morning.

Whole party will arrive in Pyongyang on Friday 15th of September at 3 p.m. of local time.

What is awaiting all of Czech representatives? For sure, visit of the grave of the founder of Taekwon-Do, Choi Hong Hi. There will be a little time for sightseeing as well. Untraditionally, the contest begins on Monday 18th of September and will be going on until Thursday 21st. Back to the Czech Republic the Czech team will set off right the following day. In the evening they will fly to Beijing and then the trip will be separated. National team will fly via Brussels and the referees via Moscow. Everyone will arrive in the motherland on Saturday 23rd of September in the afternoon.

What are the disciples our members will be competing in?
- Tereza Žilinská – female patterns 1st Dan, sparring -51 kg and the member of the female team
- Tereza Štekerová – female patterns 2nd Dan, sparring +75 kg, power breaking and the member of the team
- Jiří Novák – male patterns 2nd Dan, sparring -78 kg and special techniques

We will be more specific about the nomination after its final publishing on www.taekwondo.cz

This time, don´t expect any information of us between 15th and 22nd of September. In North Korea it is kind of difficult to use internet. Most of the photos we would like to publish during the waiting for the flight to Europe – it´s going to be very long waiting .

Keep your fingers crossed not only for members of our school but also for all of the Czech national team to be as much successful, or maybe more, as the previous Korean World championship 6 years ago. For Jiří Novák and both Terezas it is the baptism of fire for they have never competed at World championship as seniors before.