Seth Wolfe Claims Bronze at Junior Worlds

 

Male featherweight Seth Wolfe (Miami, Fla.) captured a bronze medal on Saturday during the opening day of the World Junior Taekwondo Championships in Tijuana, Mexico. The four-day championships run through Tuesday.

Wolfe won four straight matches to reach the medal round. He opened with a 12-1 win over New Zealand's Randy Javier, then ran off victories over Canada's Lawrence Phamhung, 10-5, the Philippines' Keno Mendoza, 5-4, and Colombia's Oscar Munoz, 9-4. In the semifinals, Wolfe dropped a 5-3 decision to Cuba's Jose del Cobas, who went on to win the silver medal.

Two other U.S. fighters reached the quarterfinal round on Saturday. Male heavyweight Troy Lunn (Carlsbad, Calif.) opened with a 2-1 victory over Brazil's Fabio Magalhes before losing 1-0 to eventual gold medalist Aydin Bahmalov of Azerbaijan.

Female heavyweight Adrienne Ivey (Ashburn, Va.) reached the quarterfinals with a 9-4 win over Chinese Taipei's Yeh Sung Chiang, but then lost by an 11-8 count to Turkey's Nafia Kus, who later claimed the silver medal.

Female featherweight Deireanne Morales (Lynwood, Calif.) won her opening match over Great Britain's Melissa Lamb, 11-3, but then fell to Guatemala's Elizabeth Zamora in her second-round match, 3-1.

Female light heavyweight Dess Vincecruz (Alexandria, Va.) female lost her opening-round match by a score of 5-4 to to eventual bronze medalist Kristina Pella of Sweden.

Winners from Day One:

Female -49kg (featherweight): Please click here for match tree
1. Myrllan Vargas              Puerto Rico
2. Dana Touran                 Jordan
3. Lin Chia Ying                 Chinese Taipei
3. Mayu Hamada              Japan

Female -68kg (light heavyweight): Please click here for match tree
1. Shuyin Zheng   China
2. Na Ye Seok    Korea
3. Akdeniz Aylin     Netherlands
3. Kristina Pella   Sweden

Female +68kg (heavyweight) : Please click here for match tree
1. Lulu Fei    China
2. Nafia Kus    Turkey
3. Christidou Grammatiki  Greece
3. Rados Mia    Croatia

Male -55kg (featherweight) : Please click here for match tree
1. Rezael Kaveh                                - Iran
2. Jose Cobas Del                           - Cuba
3. Kiatakamolwong Peeradol        - Thailand
3. Seth Wolfe                                     - USA

Male +78kg (heavyweight) : Please click here for match tree
1. Aydin Bahmalov            - Azerbaijan
2. Yazan Alsadeq              - Jordan
3. Young Geun Kim          - Korea
3. Cho Tsung Han            - Chinese Taipei

The remaining schedule for the U.S. fighters is as follows:

Sunday, March 7
In Action...
James Samotshozo (Fairfax, Va.) in male flyweight
Alexander Yow (Mequon, Wis.) in male bantamweight
Richard Yang (Perry Hall, Md.) in male middleweight
Haley Cisper (Oklahoma City, Okla.) in female middleweight
Cheyenne Lewis (Elk Grove, Calif.) in female flyweight

Monday, March 8
In Action...
Gabriel Chadis (Alvin, Texas) in male finweight
Ryan Arcaina (Brentwood, Calif.) in male light middleweight
Gene Yang (Perry Hall, Md.) in male light heavyweight
Giuliana Gil (Pasadena, Calif.) in female finweight
Paige Biviano (Cazenovia, N.Y.) in female lightweight
Nicole Palma (Lake Worth, Fla.) in female light middleweight

Tuesday, March 9
In Action...
Nicholas Yow (Mequon, Wis.) in male lightweight
Juanito Cajimat (Ewa Beach, Hawaii) in male welterweight
Haley Kong (Hillsborough, Calif.) in female bantamweight
Nicole VanCleave (Lake Tapps, Wash.) in female welterweight

Male Brackets: http://www.tkdmexico2010.com/pdf/draw_sheet_men.pdf
Female Brackets: http://www.tkdmexico2010.com/pdf/draw_sheet_women.pdf

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Tags: Adrienne Ivey, Deireanne Morales, Dessamine Vince Cruz, Seth Wolfe, Troy Lunn