The 5th National Taekwondo Poomsae Championships will be held on 25 and 26 June 2011 at Yio Chu Kang Sports Hall.
More information are available in the attached outline. The entry forms are also attached.
All participating clubs must provide a referee for the event. There have been several cases of clubs ‘begging’ to borrow referees from other clubs in previous tournaments. This practice is no longer allowed.
Clubs without any poomse referees are advised to participate in the coming Poomsae Referee Course scheduled to be held from 18 to 20 June 2011. More details are available in the website under “Courses / Seminars”
The Tournament Chairman’s recommendations for the following to be promoted after their outstanding officiating contribution to the National Inter-School Taekwondo Championships were approved by the Board of Referees Chairman.
Class 3P to 3
Chen Deng Jun
Ng Jun Qiang
Ngia Bao Yi
Zhiang Jinbang Bernard
Congratulations! The Singapore Taekwondo Federation looks forward to their continued contributions.
A private taekwondo club affiliated to the Singapore Taekwondo Federation is looking for suitable candidates to take up the following positions.
Taekwondo Instructor (Full-time/Part-time)
Admin/Centre Manager (Full-time/Part-time)
For the post of Taekwondo Instructor, coaching experience and coaching certification are preferred. He or she is required to assist the Chief Instructor to conduct group or individual lessons.
The Admin/Centre Manager shall perform administrative duties and attend to requests and enquiries from members of public, parents and students.
The club offers attractive remuneration and friendly working environment.
Those who are interested may contact the manager at park.kyong@mac.com or call 9337-2048.
Two Youth Olympic taekwondo bronze medalists and one taekwondo world-ranked player are among the awards winners for the Singapore Sports Awards 2011 announced recently by the Singapore National Olympic Council.
Daryl Tan Jia Jun, Nurul Shafinas A Rahman and Jason Tan Junwei have been selected by SNOC panel for the Meritorious Award (Individual Junior).
Daryl Tan Jia Jun Nurul Shafinas A Rahman Jason Tan Junwei
For Jason Tan, the Singapore world-ranked taekwondo player, it is his third award in as many years.
All recipients will collect their awards at the Awards Presentation Ceremony which will be held on 25 May 2011 at Orchard Hotel.
The National Inter-School Taekwondo Championships staged from 11 to 15 April 2011 at Toa Payoh Sports Hall brought together more than 2,400 participants from 182 schools and junior colleges with one objective – to win honors for their schools and colleges in the sport.
All of them – medalists and non-medalists – succeeded in doing their alma maters proud with their outstanding performances and sportsmanship. They did their best and in the process making this year’s competition very keenly contested and at the same time bringing the standards to a higher level. Most importantly, they respected the decisions of the refereeing officials.
As in all competitions, not every participant could be medal winner.
When the last kick was delivered and the points added up, the following schools emerged tops in the various categories.
Junior (Male) : Temasek Primary School
Junior (Female) : Temasek Primary School
Senior (Male) : St Anthony Primary School
Senior (Female) : St Anthony’ Canossian
C Division (Male) : Bowen Secondary School
C Division (Female) : Springfield Secondary School
B Division (Male) : Springfield Secondary School
B Division (Female) : Springfield Secondary School
Best Kyorugi Player : Kenneth Lim Teng Hwee (Pei Chun Public School)
Temasek Primary School and Springfield Secondary School continued to show their superiority in the sport. However, they should not rest on their laurels as Temasek had to watch St Anthony Primary and St Anthony’s Canossian while Springfield had to be better prepared for Bowen Secondary, Broadrick Secondary and Maris Stella High in next year’s competitions. Otherwise, an upset would be on the card as witnessed in the A Division tournament.
Temasek Junior College, the traditional powerhouse for the A Division, had to surrender to Hwa Chong Institution which came, competed and conquered both titles at stake.
The National Inter-School Taekwondo Championships promised to be more competitive next year.
The Singapore Taekwondo Federation would like to put on records its gratitude to CCAB officials (Mr Goh Ek Phiang, Mr Marvin Chan, Mr Hector Gomez and Mr Ivan Teo), school principals and teachers and all volunteers for their support which had resulted in the very successful and smoothly run championships.
The retest for unsuccessful participants for the Kyorugi Referee Course would be held on Sunday 24 April 2011 at 3.00pm at the STF National Training Centre.
Those who are interested must call the Secretariat at 6345 1491 by Wednesday 20 April 2011 by 5.00pm to register.The fee is $20 per component to be paid on the retest day. On the spot registration is $30 per component.
When officials, coaches and members of national kyorugi and poomsae teams left for Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the 10th Asean Taekwondo Championships on 6 April 2011, they brought with them more than their luggage containing their personal belongings.
The Singapore contingent had with them biscuits, chocolates and cash donated by TEAMgOLD members and some parents and 14 boxes of gifts for children in the orphanage.
Mr Milan Kwee, STF President, handed the cash and the other items over to Sister Ophriini at Naga World Hotel where the Singapore contingent was housed.
In her letter of thanks, Sister Ophriini wrote: “This afternoon we met Mr Milan (Kwee) and got the love packets.
“Thank you for the biscuits and the chocolates too. We will keep these for the Easter Celebration.
“Our sincere gratitude to all who have contributed to make us Sisters, the young and the kids happy. We will distribute them during the holidays and better ones as gifts or prizes to the children.”
The STF urges all members to find ways to help those in need as it is their responsibility as taekwondo members to do so.
311 participants from 8 Asean countries – Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – congregated in Phnom Phenh from 7 to 9 April 2011 to stake their claims on the medals at stake for the poomsae and kyorugi competitions at the 10th Asean Taekwondo Championships.
The event, which was the first ever international taekwondo tournament organized by the Cambodia Taekwondo Federation, was supported by Asean Taekwondo Federation.
It proved to be very competitive as it attracted numerous outstanding players including two poomsae World champions.
Singapore did creditably to clinch 2 silver and 4 bronze medals for kyorugi and 3 silver and 2 bronze medals for poomsae. The medals came from the following.
Kyorugi
– Tio Jia Xin (Silver)
– Ng Ming Wei (Silver)
– Nurul Shafinas Bte Abdul Rahman (Bronze)
– Jacqueline Quek Jie Lin (Bronze)
– Raja Arshad Bte Raja Mahmod
– Muhammad Norhalim Bte Mohd Zahruddin
Poomsae
– Samuel Lee Wei Kang (Individual Silver & Pair Silver)
– Joyce Lim Soon Yi (Individual Silver & Pair Silver)
– Chelsea Ann Sim Shu Zhen (Individual Bronze & Pair Bronze)
– Kang Rui Jie (Pair Bronze)
The championships were given lots of importance by the host. The event was graced by Deputy Prime Mininster of Cambodia at the opening ceremony. And Dr Thong Khon, the Tourism Minister of Cambodia, witnessed the competitions daily.
The next Asean Taekwondo Championships will be staged in Myanmar or Indonesia at the end of 2012 or early 2013.
