2012 Charity Kendo Championships

 in aid of Maggie’s Centres & Macmillan Cancer Support

Thankyou for your support!

Results:
Junior Individuals Group ‘A’ (Uchikomi & Kirikaeshi Hantei) - 10 Years and under (unarmoured)
1.Jhoichi Nagahara
2.Satoshi Amemiya
3.Hugo Rauch
3.Ryuki Hiyama
Fighting Spirit: Shinobu Amemiya 

Junior Individuals Group ‘B’ - Ages 11 to 14 years
1.Maurycy Kaczor
2.Kenzo Homma
3.Daniel Bateman
3.Konradas Rukas
Fighting Spirit: Sho Okoda

Junior Individuals Group ‘C’ - Ages 15 to 17 years
1.Tomasz Pawlak
2.Shinnosuke Kitaoka
3.Robert Ostacchini
3.Rosie Preston-Cary
Fighting Spirit: Kana Okoda

Junior Team [The Sakura Charity Cup] Three Players per team – Ages 7 to 17 years
1. Satoshi Amemiya, Maurycy Kaczor, Thomas Pawlak
2. Victor Raineri, Hiroki Asano, Shinnosuke Kitaoka
3. Yohei Kaneshima, Khadejah Khan, Kenzo Homma
3. Jhoichi Nagahara, Ryota Murakami, Robert Ostacching
Fighting Spirit: Ryuki Hiyama, Rosie Preston-Cary, Bilal Khan

Family Team [The Hiroshi Ozawa Fighting Spirit Shield] - 1 Male, 1 Female & 1 Junior per team
1.Ryuki Hiyama, Hiroki Asano, Yasuyuki Hiyama
2.Maurycy Kaczor, Kathryn Cassidy, Martin Kiosew
3.Satoshi Amemiya, Thomas Pawlak, Colin Porter
3.Konradas Rukas, James Lai, Gerardas Rukas
Fighting Spirit: Yohei Kaneshima, Titas Kibas, Koji Kaneshima

Parents Competition ‘Sumo’ Competition
1.Mrs Kaneshima
2.Bertram Rauch
3.Yasuyuki Hiyama
3.Misako Homma

Most ‘Fantastic’ award: Mrs Preston-Cary

Kachinuki Competition ‘Last Man’ Standing – 21 fighters per team Winners for 2012:

Maggie’s Centres Best Player Performance [The Kashinoki Plate]
Satoshi Amemiya

Shinpan-Cho: Terry Holt Sensei
Senior Referee: Paul Budden Sensei

Referees:
Yasuyuki Hiyama
Kazuyo Matsuda
Trevor Chapman
Gerardas Rukas
Phil McLaughlin
Colin Porter
John Bates
Martin Kiosew
Kathryn Cassidy
Adrian Wagstaff
Yutaka Matsubayashi
Takeo Fujihira
Neil Donnelly

Sponsors:
Alternative Networks,
Eurokendo,
Harrow College,
Chapman Taylor,
Service Point,
Watford Leisure Centre Central,
Kobukan & Kashi no ki Kenyu Kai,
Kodokan Kendo Club,
Kagamishin Kendo Kai,
Holt Sensei

Total 70 competitors (24 juniors, 33 adults & 13 parents) + helpers,families and supporters:

Helpers List:

Bertram Rauch, Tomoko Kitaoka, Jing Guo, Thomas Pfiffner, Titas Kibas, Hitomi Okoda,
Misako Homma, Masami Hudson,Dave Young, Ray Iova, Simon Porter, Carl Ranger, Hugo Rauch

Supporting charities: Maggie's Centres and Macmillan Cancer Support.

All entry fees go towards the two cancer charity groups after deducting hall hire fees.

Thank you for support - New Maggie’s Centre opening in South West Wales

maggiesnewbuildDuring 2009, 2010 and 2011 Kendo Charity Group events supported Maggie’s Centres especially when we held the first Charity kendo Championships in Cardiff·in 2009, they started the building project - a new South West Wales Maggie’s Centre branch at Singleton Hospital, designed by the greatest Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa. We were told that the centre will be opening this December. Thank you for supporting Maggie’s Centres continuously.

 

This is how the ‘winner’ looks like…

·About the building click here



Junior Individuals Group ‘B’ - Ages 11 to 14 years

To date £963.92 raised further donations still to follow