MALAYSIA:Koryo girls score big in Inter-Club

K.M. BOOPATHY
Dec 19

KORYO Taekwondo Academy made fine start in the inaugural NSC-Milo-MTCA Inter-Club Taekwondo Championships grabbing five gold medals at the National Sports Council’s gymnasium in Bukit Jalil yesterday.


Koryo were dominant in the Girls’ 14-17 category where they took five of 10 gold medals on offer with multiple national junior champion Koh Jen Li leading the way.

Jen Li clinched the lightweight category beating Seah Kwi San of the Warrior Academy, while Tan Yi Ching of TL Taekwondo Academy and G. Baljhoti settled for bronze.

Koryo also won the finweight gold through Adriana Noryasmin while Nurul Afiqah Harun and Nor Aslinda were victorious in the welterweight and light-middleweight categories respectively.

The fifth gold was delivered by bantamweight Nurul Asfahlina and they can expect more success when the Boys’ 14-17 and Open categories are contested today.

Viva Taekwondo Club (Viva) took two gold medals through the Zulkifli siblings Zulaikha Athirah in the flyweight and Zatil Akmal in the heavyweight categories.

Viva won another gold medal in the Boys’ 10-13 category when K. Sarran Raj won the welterweight.

Terengganu-based Gemilang Academy, Warisan Academy and Bangsar Taekwondo and Fitness Centre (BTFC) won four gold medals each.

Gemilang, who captured 11 gold in the National Junior Championships earlier this year, won three gold medals in the Girls’ 10-13 category.

Wan Nur Alya Afiqah Mustafa won the bantamweight gold, Nur Amalin Aisha Rusdi took the welterweight gold and Nur Dina Shaharuddin won the light heavyweight.

Their fourth gold came in the Boys’ 10-13 category through Azzamuddin Razali in the lightweight event.

Warisan won the Boys’ 10-13 event through Nik Ishraq Hasif in the flyweight, the featherweight through Ahza Syahmi, while Izzati Ahmad (lighweight) and Nik Attilya Hanis (middlweight) delivered in the Girls’ 10-13 age-group.

BTFC won three gold medals through Aiman Nur Najah Kamruzaman (flyweight), Kerry Gan (featherweight) and Fu Hsu Hui (light middleweight), while their fourth gold was delivered by Denise Kok in the Girls’ 14-17 featherweight.


Source from http://www.nst.com.my