EIGHT students from Very Road School and Shepparton Access and nine students from Koryo Taekwondo joined 600 fighters at the Taekwondo Victoria Inc 2018 TVI Winter Invitational, with each of the local students coming away with medals.
Verney Road School and Shepparton Access students, Jed, Brandon and Dom each scored a gold medal, Damon, Rishari an Aden won silver and Taylen and Anthony came away with bronze medals.
Koryo Taekwondo students Angelina, Pirah, Khadijah Katrina and Molly came away from the competition with gold, Baden and Riley scored silver and Tirrim and Molly came away with bronze medals.
Koryo Taekwondo head instructor, Sammy Rachele said, “It was a good day for the students.
“It was the first time we’ve ever had Australian Taekwondo Victoria help to organise the students from Shepparton Access and Verney Road School to compete and it was the first time that Koryo had a group this large competing.
“They all did great. All the training they’ve been doing helped with their wins and the confidence they have gained from the day was great to see.
“The best thing is though that after all these years, we had students from Shepparton Access compete who have been with Koryo since they were students at Verney Road School.
“It was nice to finally have been able to take them all to a real competition to compete.”
