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U.S. Juniors Win Nine Gold Medals at U.S. Open
By Bill Kellick // USA Taekwondo // February 17, 2007
ORLANDO, Fla. -- U.S. junior competitors (ages 14-17) won nine of the 12 divisions Saturday at the 16th Annual U.S. Open Taekwondo Championships held at the Orange County Convention Center. The event concludes on Sunday.
Gold medalists of the U.S. were: Anees Hasnain (McKinney, Texas) in women's finweight; Kayla Witten (Troy, Ohio) in women's flyweight; Cheryl Krause (Fairfax Station, Va.) in women's lightweight; Ally Creel (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) in women's welterweight; Jayme Cajimat (Ewa Beach, Hawaii) in men's flyweight; Jensen Ishida (Waipahu, Hawaii); Damian Villa (Los Angeles, Calif.); Eugene Kim (Fullerton, Calif.); and Thomas Lee (Alexandria, Va.).
Hasnain defeated Brittany Coyne (Littleton, Colo.) in sudden death; Witten beat Mexico's Margarita Rodriguez Camacho, 7-5; Krause defeated Mexico's Diana Pasillas, 7-0; Creel bested Beatrice Kelly (Jacksonville, Fla.), 4-3; Cajimat beat Kevin Gomogda (Tampa, Fla.) by withdrawal; Ishida defeated Matthew Yim (Ashburn, Va.), 4-2; Villa edged Jaysen Ishida (Waipahu, Hawaii), 5-4; Kim shutout Tyler Sawyer (Anchorage, Alaska), 3-0; and Lee defeated Canada's Reggie Ralph, 5-2.
In the women's bantamweight final, Canada's Christine Trieu who beat Shaina Krause (Fairfax Station, Va.) in sudden death in the women's featherweight final, and Canada's Lawrence Phamhung who won the men's finweight final in sudden death over Matthew Ramirez (San Jose, Calif.).
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