Silver for Laura Mouret in sparring at the Open Italian Championships, November 19th 2022.

Koper, Slovenia October 2nd-9th 2022

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Results ITF-Belgium:

• Tomas Chacon Torrealba: bronze senior tul II degree
• Juan Martinez: gold advanced senior tul I degree
• Nicolas Taylor: silver advanced senior tul I degree
• Hans Van Lierde: silver veteran power breaking
• Feriel Teskrat: bronze senior tul coloured belts  and silver senior sparring coloured belts
• Alyssa Mbala: silver senior sparring coloured belts
• Nicolas Vertroost: bronze advanced sparring coloured belts and gold advanced senior special techniques

The Netherlands, Sunday September 25th 2022 – open for youth up to 14 only

• Inaya Ari: gold kids sparring & gold special techniques

Finally, after the event had to be postponed twice due to the pandemic, the ITF World Cup in Koper, Slovenia will take place October 2nd-9th.

The event starts with the ITF Board Meeting on October 2nd. October 3rd the ITF Congress Meeting will take place in the afternoon, followed by the opening ceremony in the evening. The competition starts October 4th.

ITF-Belgium will be represented by 5 schools (Samjok-O, Red Force, ITF Brussels, Hwarang and Ge-Baek), with competitors, coaches, referees, officials and supporters.

Master Eddy Van Damme and Benito Martinez were selected as umpires, Sophie Ardenoy was selected as IT-assistant to the referees. Master Virginia Dionisi and Costel Grigoras will be coaching, just as some of the competitors combining this task with their participation. GrandMaster Frank Vanberghen and Master Annick Van Driessche are officials. Competitors: Wim Vermeir, Hans Van Lierde, Nicolas Taylor, Juan Martinez, Tomas Chacon Torrealba, Kim Vladimir, Thibaut De Preter, Alyssa Mbala, Feriel Teskrat, Nicolas Vertroost and Yoenn Vertroost.

They will be accompagnied by some enthusiastic supporters: Gino Vandervaren, Laurine Chacon Torrealba and Jean-Marc Vertroost.

Sofia, Bulgaria June 6-10

ITF-Belgium was represented by 4 members at the championship. As Vice-president of AETF Master Virginia Dionisi was present as representant of the AETF Board. Benito Martinez was on the European Cup as part of the umpire team. Laura Mouret and Kaloyan Hristov were competing, defending the belgian colours.

On Friday June 10th Laura was able to fight her way to the final in sparring -68kg, obtaining the silver medal.