The Saint-Petersburg Junior Kendo Open, Second St.Petersburg Kendo Championships and Thirst St.Petersburg Iaido Tournament were conducted in our city on 18-20 December 2009. These Championships were organized by clubs of St.Petersburg Kendo Assosiation.
SAINT-PETERSBURG JUNIORS KENDO OPEN:
Saint-Petersburg Junior Kendo Open participated 20 young sportsmen from 4 Russian cities: Kazan (2 persons), Elista (2 persons), Nizhniy Novgorod (2 persons) and Saint-Petersburg (10 persons). There were tournaments of 3 age groups: 8-10 years old, 11-13 years old, 14-16 years old, and also teams tournaments.
Children (8-10 years old)
1 place – Shapovalov Eugenie (Nizhniy Novgorod)
2 place – Isupov Sergey (Nizhniy Novgorod)
3 place – Paterikina Mar’ya (Elista)
3 place – Kornetov Konstantin (“Gekken”, St.Petersburg)
Juniors (11-13 years old)
1 place – Kremcheev Kirill (“Shiten”, St.Petersburg)
2 place – Tarasov Timofey (“Shiten”, St.Petersburg)
3 place – Gayfutdinov Egor (“Reimei”, Kazan)
3 place – Kustaryov Vladislav (“Shiten”, St.Petersburg)
Juniors (14-16 years old)
1 place – Gayfutdinov Egor (“Reimei”, Kazan)
2 place – Davidov Valentin (“Gekken”, St.Petersburg)
3 place – Tarasov Timofey (“Shiten”, St.Petersburg)
3 place – Kremcheev Kirill (“Shiten”, St.Petersburg)
Teams:
1 place – “Shiten-1” St.Petersburg (Kustaryov V., Kremcheev K., Tarasov T.)
2 place – “Reimei-1”, Kazan (S’yomcshikov R., Tolkishevskiy N., Gayfutdinov E.)
3 place – “Reimei-2”, Kazan (Tairov M., Sokolov A., Burnashev I.)
3 place – Nizhniy Novgorod (Shapovalov E., Isupov S.)
FS – Paterikina Dar’ya (Elista), Sidorenko Igor (“Shiten”, St.Petersburg), Paterikina Mar’ya (Elista), Tarasov Timofey (“Shiten”, St.Petersburg)
SECOND ST.PETERSBURG KENDO CHAMPIONSHIPS
As in the last year all clubs of St.Petersburg took part in the tournaments. 8 persons participated Ladies Individual Tournaments and 35 sportsmen Absolute Tournaments.
Consul general of Japan Ichiro Kavabata made a speech on the Opening Ceremony of the Championships. Clubs of kendo and kumdo prepared short presentations for the ceremony.
Ladies Individual
1 place – Lozhkina Alena (“Shiten”)
2 place – Dmitrieva Alisa (“Shiten”)
3 place – Gessler Eleena (KFNW)
3 place – Mashnina Ludmila (KFNW)
Absolute Tournament
1 place – Zhukov Konstantin (“Gekken”)
2 place – Trofimov Victor (“Gekken”)
3 place – Lozhkina Alena (“Shiten”)
3 place – Borichev Alexey (“Gekken”)
FS – Kremcheev Anver (“Shiten”), Davidov Valentin (“Gekken”)
THIRST ST.PETERSBURG IAIDO TOURNAMENT
These tournaments were carried out on 20 December. As a whole 11 sportsmen from “Budo-Shingi-Kan”, “Gekken”, “Zanshin”, “Seifekai” participated the tournaments.
1 place – Yen Irina (“Gekken”)
2 place – Dmitriev Mikhail (“Seifekai”)
3 place – Lameko Alexander (“Gekken”)
FS – A.Podolenchuk (“Seifukai”)
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