Team Taya achieved excellent results at the two day Sydney Taekwondo Festival tournament last 25-26 May 2019 with our 21 athletes winning 38 medals - 22 Golds, 8 Silvers and 8 Bronzes.

We are so proud of our athletes with several notable performances and point gap wins from triple gold medallist Chelsea Gomez who as a red belt won her division in point gap in the finals match and also stepped up in two black belt divisions winning all 3 matches two in point gap and 1 high scoring results and double gold medallist Jade Macgowan who as a blue belt faced the challenge of fighting also in red belt and won both divisions in point gap.  

Also great performances from the other double gold medallists Sofia Querubin, Evangeline De Guzman, Ethan De Guzman, Lachlan Macgowan who all stepped up for another division and won in both divisions and our gold medallists Aaditya Kadam, Ysabella Querubin, Heaven Alvarez, Shreyas Gurelli, Alec Macgowan, Ayaan Shetty, Sanemi Sharma who won mostly in point gap and our new member Joshua Tollens winning Gold in his second competition experience. Congratulations also to our duo sister team of Saanvi and Saachi Sharma for the gold medal performance in pair poomsae.

Participation in this event is part of Taya Taekwondo's grass roots training and development program to provide opportunities for our young athletes to learn, have more court time and experience, build confidence, apply strategies and improve technical skills. Thank you to our coaches Ms Natalia, Sir Ed, Ms Abby for your dedication, hard work and commitment to bring the best out of the athletes, to our black belts Aaditya, Ysabella, Sofia for looking after our colour belts and to our parents for your support, cheers and encouragement. What a great team we have. Well done Team Taya!!!

Our medal tally as follows:

Sofia Querubin, double Gold

Chelsea,