The second State international Open competition for the year saw a very experienced group of Budokan Juniors and a very young contingent in the Senior divisions. The 11 Junior and Senior Boys and Girls all medalled which was very impressive: 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze medals. The Seniors all dug deep and got the benefit of significant mat time. 4 of our Cadets competed in 3 age categories with one athlete having 8 matches in the day. Including Veterans, we had 9 athletes compete in 18 Senior divisions winning 7 medals: 3 Gold, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze.
- In total 20 Budokan athletes competed in 29 divisions winning 18 medals:
- 7 Gold, 4 Silver and 7 Bronze with another 2 athletes fighting for a medal.
- This means 62% of divisions entered resulted in a medal. Great work by all our athletes.
Longest matches were by Will Zollinger who had 2 Golden Score matches back-to-back one being 3 minutes GS (7 minutes total) and the other GS 3m40s (7m40s), nearly 15 minutes in 2 matches. Great effort. Notably, our entries in this event were significantly less than in previous years, mainly due to injuries, athletes overseas, or some deciding to delay their return to competition.
- Our 3 Kata entries also had a very successful day winning Gold in all their divisions. Individual results follow:
Junior Boys/Girls
- Gold: Lilly Zollinger
- Silver: Dasha Platonov, Ethan Zhang
- Bronze: Callum Dick
Senior Boys/Girls
- Gold: Shanning Mak, Bianca Tandean, Nicholas Platonov
- Silver: Crosby Peake
- Bronze: Demin Cai, Max Zollinger, Flynn Mogilin
Cadet Men/Women
- Gold: Clarissa Vumbaca, Will Zollinger
- Bronze: Phoenix Edwards
- Unplaced: Elisha Mistry
Junior Men/Women
- Silver: Clarissa Vumbaca
- Bronze: Phoenix Edwards
- 5th Place: Montanna Poulsen
- 7th Place: Will Zollinger
- Unplaced: Elisha Mistry
Senior Men/Women
- Bronze: Clarissa Vumbaca
- 5th Place: Phoenix Edwards
- 7th Place: Will Zollinger
- Unplaced: Bjorn Tandean, Elisha Mistry, Montanna Poulsen
Veteran Men
- Gold: Aziz Yuldashev
- Unplaced: Scott Young, Conrad van Dort
Kata Gold to the following:
- Bernhard and Bianca Tandean – Nage-No-Kata
- Bernhard and Bianca Tandean – Ju-No-Kata
- Bernhard and Bjorn Tandean – Katame-No-Kata