Annick Van Driessche

All North American & Carribean eTournament

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November 26th-December 11th

This eTournament in tul & pre-arranged free sparring was open to all ITF members, so the number of participants and participating countries & clubs was big and from all around the ITF world: Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Ethiopia, Finland, Jamaica, Malaysia, Scotland, USA, Uruguay and also one of the affiliated schools of ITF-Belgium: Taekwon-Do Club Gent. A lot of famous competitors participated, and a lot of reknown clubs.

The participants of Taekwon-Do Club Gent performed on a very high level, and this resulted in a lot of medals. Congratulations to competitors and instructors.

Results:

  • Amber Dellaert: gold
  • Rune Schuddinck: gold
  • Sakina Khajou: gold
  • Oumaima Douhaoui: gold
  • Melike Ersahin: gold
  • Nelson Van den Bogaert: gold
  • Khuslen Chingesdalai: gold
  • Louis Vincent: gold
  • Frances Van den Bogaert: gold
  • Maximilien Boyens: silver
  • Jasper Degryze: silver
  • Pjotr Tchekouteff: silver
  • Amal Aden: silver
  • Rayan Bennani: bronze
  • Setara Mohammad: bronze
  • Rawen Mejri: bronze
  • Inaya Benzaaza: bronze
  • Floris Ghijsels: bronze
  • Jan Menschaert: bronze
  • Roudayna Mejri: bronze
  • Laetissa Matton: bronze

Taekwon-Do Club Gent turned out to be the overall winner of the tournament, the school ranked first in list of participating clubs!

International Instructors Course Andorra

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December 10th-12th

For the first time ever an IIC is being organised in Andorra. Together with this IIC also an IAC and an IKC are being held. From ITF-Belgium, Master Virginia Dionisi, Andreea Musca, Laura Mouret and Marco Gaspar are taking part in the event.

Master Virginia has been invited by the chairman of the ITF Technical Committee, GrandMaster Hector Marano, to conduct classes during the IIC, as special guest. This is an honour, not only for herself, but to the whole belgian federation.

Master promotion in Scotland

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GrandMaster Frank Vanberghen has been invited by the Scottish federation to conduct, together with Honorably GrandMaster Tom MacCallum, a Master promotion in Livingston, near Edinburgh. Three candidates VII° degree will present themselves for both GrandMasters on Saturday December 11th.

AETF Congress Meeting & elections

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La Nucia, November 26th 2021

On November 26th 2021, during the European Championships in Spain, the yearly AETF Congress Meeting was being held with 36 affiliated European countries & representatives present. On the agenda this year were also the 4-yearly elections for the AETF Board and the Revisory Committee.

GrandMaster Frank Vanberghen was re-elected in the Revisory Committee, as chairman. He is already holding this position for 18 years, and is up for another term of 4 years now.

Master Virginia Dionisi was candidate to become AETF vice-president. Many congratulations! She won this election with 21 votes against 15 for the other candidate. It’s a big honour to have her in the board, and her election is quite special: as small country, Belgium has 1 GrandMaster, 3 Masters of whom 2 are female, both of them involved in ITF & AETF matters! ITF-Belgium should be proud of this.

The newly elected president of AETF is Master Leonardo Oros Duek. New board members: Master Alexandru Muresan, Master Jorge Züger, Master Lazaros Tsilfidis, Peter Szasz, Master Jurek (Jerzy) Jedut and Master Tomaz Barada.

European Championships 2021

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La Nucia, Spain November 23rd-27th

After the cancellation of the EC 2020 the 2021 edition was postponed from April to November. Thanks to a lot of measures and precautions AETF and FEST were able to organize this year’s competition: from face masks for everyone in the hall over testing upon arrival to the exclusion of spectators… it was a bit different, but all delegations were happy there was an EC this year.

After 21 months of pandemic, the difference between countries that had faced a lockdown and severe measures and the countries that did’t have any lockdown was visible, not as such on the physical, but especially on the mental side. Also in the belgian team. Although the competitors and coaches gave all they have and performed well, there was a bit of hesitation. So no medals this year, but this doesn’t mean there’s no result. The next EC is in 6 months, in April 2022, and this year’s EC was a necessary step to take in the preparation for next year. This was only the 2nd competition in 21 months, after a preparation meanly through digital platforms.

To be short: the athletes and coaches can be proud of how they performed and put the focus now on 2022!

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