22.6.2017 / 1st meeting of CYTTalented in Ostrava
The North Moravia meetings of centre of talented youth (STM) recently means to us getting up very early in the morning. We experienced that on second Saturday of May as well. Sonkal part of united team STM Prague 2
set off a while after 5 a.m. from Černý Most to arrive about 11 a.m. at the sport hall in Ostrava. After necessary weighing of competitors for the sparring everybody underwent training program of Taekwon-Do and non-Taekwon-Do activities.
The Saturday part of competition started after 3 p.m. and contained the contests of young and older pupils. In the patterns contest Ondra Faltin confirmed his usual shape. He did not leave any of his blue belt opponents in the dark about who was to be the winner of the category.
Silver medals added Edita Zelinková and Nela Morkovcová in the blue belt category of older female pupils. In the parring category Ondra Faltin made it to the finals. There he was defeated by Daniel Labudka, but it was very close. Before team sparring Ondra popped out to special techniques to gain surprising gold medal. As well as Ondra among male pupils, Nela Morkovcová among female pupils contributed to gaining silver medals. Ondra Faltin was awarded with goblet at the early evening ceremony.
Final Sunday part of competition was designed for male and female juniors. Our representatives were Veronika Jungwirtová, Aneta Zelinková and Jan Veškrna. Veronika competed in green belts group and without any troubles she gained golden medal. Aneta made it to the semi-finals which meant for her the bronze place. Honza (Jan) was among the red belts. He completed our medal collection by winning silver place. In sport sparring Aneta and even Honza were not pretty lucky. But Honza made up for this bad luck in team sparring. Our team defeated all of other teams one by one and won excellent first place.
Prague 2 in total gained first place with great margin and it´s big challenge for us to confirm these performances at November round of this contest!
If you join us you can be part of another talented battles next year