U.S. Fighters Win 13 Medals at Canadian Open

Bill Kellick June 02, 2010


American athletes captured 13 medals in the senior divisions on Saturday at the Canadian Open in Montreal, including four gold medals.
 
Female lightweight Amber Means (Sugar Land, Texas), male finweight Tashi Sherpa (Astoria, N.Y.), male heavyweight Christian Suh (Astoria, N.Y.) female featherweight Diana Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas) all won gold medals in their respective divisions.
 
Silver medalists were female flyweight Charlotte Craig (Murietta, Calif.) and male featherweight Tal Moriah (Houston, Texas), male lightweight Nir Moriah (Houston, Texas) and female welterweight Andie Jane Phinney (Gloucester, Mass.).
 
Bronze medals were won by male featherweight Steven Lin (Chatham, N.J.), female welterweight Tasha Pruter (Blue Springs, Mo.), female featherweight Tanya Paterno (Katonah, N.Y.), male flyweight Blaise Castagnetti (Mililani, Hawaii), and junior male fin/flyweight Hans Pruter (Blue Springs, Mo.).
 
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