Cheyenne Lewis Wins Junior World Title

Thirteen-year-old Cheyenne Lewis (Elk Grove, Calif.) won the World Junior Taekwondo Championships on Sunday in Tijuana, Mexico. Her victory in the female flyweight division gives the U.S. two straight junior world championships in that weight class. Selina Tubbs (Plano, Texas) captured the female flyweight title in 2008.

Lewis started the day with a 17-1 defeat of Azerbaijan's Narmina Mammadova, followed by a 14-0 shutout of Mexico's Linda Marina Torres and a 16-5 semifinal win over Iran's Maryam Sharjahani. In the gold-medal final against Korea's Choi Mi Hui, Lewis found herself trailing 11-8 entering the final round but rallied for a 13-12 win to clinch the title.

In male flyweight action, James Samotshozo (Fairfax, Va.) reached the round of 16 with a 1-0 win over Italy's Rega Vittorio, but then dropped a 10-3 decision to eventual gold medalist Jeon Hun Kim of Korea.

Female middleweight Haley Cisper (Oklahoma City, Okla.) won her opening match by a score of 8-1 over New Zealand's Sarah Vergeer to reach the round of 16. But then she suffered a 7-3 defeat to Chinese Taipei's Lin Jo Wei.

Male bantamweight Alexander Yow (Mequon, Wis.) started the day with a 1-0 win over Singapore's Keith Ong, but then lost to Mexico's Cesar Roman Rodriguez in the round of 32, 16-6. Rodriguez would go on to win the gold medal.

The fifth U.S. fighter in action on Sunday, Richard Yang (Perry Hall, Md.) in the male middleweight division, lost his opening-round match to Chinese Taipei's Li Cheng Wei, 9-2.

Day Two Medalists:

Male -48kg (flyweight): Please click here for match tree
1. Jeong Hun Kim             - Korea
2. Al Ahmad                    - Jordan
3. Ahmadi Danial              - Iran
3. Emsri Karepol               - Thailand

Male -51kg (bantamweight): Please click here for match tree
1. Rodriguez Cesar Roman       - Mexico
2. Denisenko Alexey                - Russia
3. Omer Aksoy                        -Turkey
3. Daisuke Harada                   - Japan

Male -73kg (middleweight): Pleaseclick here for match tree
1. Ozan Bindak                 - Turkey
2. Gulec Tahir                   - Germany
3. Agustin Alves               - Argentina
3. Aliaksandr Shmakou     - Belarus

Female -44kg (flyweight) Please click here for match tree
1. Cheyenne Lewis   USA
2. Mi Hui Choi    Korea
3. Romoldanova Iryna   Ukraine
3. Shirjahani Maryam   Iran

Female -63kg (middleweight) : Please click here for match tree

1. Li Wanhui    China
2. Haby Niare    France
3. Potapova Alexandra  Russia
3. You Jin Jang   Korea

The schedule for the final two days of the World Junior Championships is as follows

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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