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At the Open de Paris
Team Canada at the 2016 Sr World Championships — Craig Vokey, Heather Fidyk, Katarina Vadovicova, Denis Beaudoin, Marianne Boulé, Kamille Desjardins, Carl Rodrigue, Rita Ngo, Kate Campbell, Jusleen Virk, Patrice Boily-Martineau, Natalie Olson, Sarmen Sinani, Hidemi Uchiage, Simon Langlois-Gauthier, Patricia Wright, Daniel Gaysinsky, Daphné Trahan-Perreault, Nicolas Bisson, Sumi Uchiage, Camélie Boisvenue, Kenneth Lee, Roman Saltikov, Kyra Lindsay-Ng and Nassim Varasteh in Linz, Austria.
Senior World Championships
Para-Karate Athletes Take Gold and Silver
Karate Canada sent three para-athletes athletes
to the 2016 Senior World Championships Oct. 25-30 in Linz, Austria, and they made history.
Patricia Wright of Ontario became Canada’s irst world champion by winning gold in the Intellectually Impaired division. It was Wright’s irst appearance at Worlds, at 40 years old.
Her teammate Natalie Olson of Alberta took home silver. In 2014, Olson was our sole representative and placed ifth.
More than 1,000 athletes from 118 nations came prepared to ight and compete against the best in the world at these World Championships
The Canadian delegation included 18 athletes, accompanied by ive coaches, one medical support staff, ive oficials and President Craig Vokey.
Canada came away with one gold, one silver and two top-10 inishes.
“This was a great milestone for Karate Canada, with
amazing performances from our Para and Kata program athletes,” said Vokey.
“We are very proud, and look conidently to the future.
“As the world prepares for Tokyo 2020, the stakes are getting higher and the challenge is becoming greater.
“Besides achieving a remarkable and historic result in a Para-karate division at this event,
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