Over the Queen’s Birthday weekend, the WBOP Area Open Championships were held in Tauranga. We sent 20 members, the largest ever squad to this event!

The Howick and St Heliers squad was made up of the following.

Jacky Fong                Uncontested Gold     MW -57Kg / Uncontested Gold    MW Open

Matthew Wong           Gold   JM -55Kg

Steven Kerr

Isabella Bartlett

Yannick Boehm         Silver    SB -36Kg

Jonny De Jong          Bronze   SB -36Kg

Jandre Fouchee

Hayley Gatward         Bronze   SG +55

Michael Harris

Kawa Kiri                   Bronze   JB -36Kg

Dougie Laban            Gold  JB +36Kg

Alex Macmillan

Alexander Perju         Silver  JB -28Kg

Andrew Perju             Silver  JB -36Kg

Cole Peters                Silver  SB -55Kg

Ava Silby                    Gold  JG -28Kg

Liam Silby

Laura Thwaites

Niek Vissor

Koen Vissor                Bronze  SB -55Kg

Congratulations to all our medal winners!! And better luck next time for those who missed out. But all our squad fought really hard and so it is onwards and upwards to the next tournament.