Junior World Champs 2006 Coverage
The team arrived Auckland at 6.45 am Friday morning -
flight NZ 5
Doug's Picks of the Pix -1- -2-
Day 14 - Wednesday 18th: Los Angeles .
Final: ( NZ Thursday )
Day 14 update from Gwyn Brown, here.
A screen capture from Dave Sawyer - Gary S and three others on Venice Beach, LA
They're talking to Dave via cellphone while he can see them on the internet webcam...
Day 13 - Tuesday 18th: Los Angeles - Disneyland, Medieval Times.
Photos from Doug Hanna here
Day 13 update from Gwyn Brown, here.
Day 12 - Monday 17th: Honduras to Los Angeles.
Day 12 update from Gwyn Brown, here.
( no photos today - Doug not feeling well )
The Team will spend most of their Monday flying from Honduras to Houston, and on to Los Angeles.
After two days in Los Angeles, they fly home, arriving Auckland at 6.45 am Friday morning.
Four more added to Doug's Pick of the Pix here.
I imagine we will hear some more about Disneyland, and Medieval Times.
Best
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| Alicia Yates (Female Captain) |
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| Jessie Walker |
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| Alisa Parker |
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| Johs Van Pierce |
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| Candice Millar |
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| Rebecca Walthall |
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| Siobhan MacDonald |
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| Amy Reeder |
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| Melissa Timperley |
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| Kane Baigent |
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| Sam Campbell |
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| Chris Clencie (Male Captain) |
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| Josh Parker |
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| David Burr |
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| Alexandra Couling |
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| Thomas Pygott |
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| Shane Black |
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| Hayden Stevens |
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| Ryan Stevens |
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Stuart
Alderson-
Maden | Gary
Fyfe | Jeremy
Hanna | Carlos
MacDiarmid | Gary
Sawyer | Bradley
Wickman |
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The coaches who trained our champions
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Coach
Dave
Ballard |
Asst Coach
Dan
Jackson |
Asst Coach
Mark
Trotter |
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The management that got them there and kept them going
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Manager
Mike
Yates |
Asst Manager
Richard
Burr |
Asst Manager
Tanya
Katene |
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The guys who brought the story to all of you at home
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Journalist
Gwyn
Brown |
Photographer
Doug Hanna |
NZ Webpage
Neil Breen |
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Day 11 - Sunday 16th. Tegucigalpa: Third and Final Day of Competition
Well - they sent one anyway - PHOTOS from Doug Hanna and an UPDATE from Gwyn Brown
( Very briefly as we are on our way out to the final party, there won't be time to send an update tonight, so you will all have to wait until tomorrow. But we have lots of stuff to come! )
But, briefly
Best female team overall!
Bronze, male team specialty
Bronze, male team sparring
Bronze, female team sparring
There are some more we think, but it got really crazy at the end of the day, and i would hate to send the wrong results until we can go over notes...sorry everyone.
Gwyn and Doug
Day 11 - Sunday 16th. Tegucigalpa: Third and Final Day of Competition
Gold - Female power team
Silver - Woman's team specialty
Silver - Bex - Individual sparring
Silver - Men's power team
Silver - David & Jess - Prearranged sparring
Bronze - Men's team specialty
More Photos added
Full report tonight
Day 10 - Saturday 15th. Tegucigalpa: Second Day of Competition
Saturday night Honduras - 4pm NZ - OK - the update for day 2 of competition has finally arrived. it's a big one
Yay - due to night-owl Doug checking his email after midnight, we have the missing morning report :o)
Day 10 morning from Gwyn Brown, with photos by Doug Hanna,
here.
Day 10 afternoon
here.
Another page of Doug's Pick of the Pix added here.
TWO GOLD
FOUR MORE BRONZE
Gold to Johs Van Pierce - individual male power
Gold to Alicia Yates - individual female power
Bronze to Sam Campbell - individual male power
Bronze Jess Walker - individual female power
Bronze Candice Millar - sparring
Bronze Jess Walker - sparring
More news and photos soon!!
(lunchtime Honduras, 6am NZ ) Photos
Bex won 3 matches including beating Poland to reach finals in sparring tomorrow.
Jess won two matches to make it to the semi finals this afternoon.
In the woman's specialty all three of the NZ team (Melissa, Ami and Siobhan)
had to play off for bronze but unfortunately were unsuccessful.
Hopefully a full report in about an hour or so.
Cheers Doug
Gwin's not going to have his report ready by the time we board our bus in 10 minutes so it will be about 9pm our
time before we can file it. (2pm NZ)
Cheers Doug
ITFNZ site and our Champs Coverage page featured on the front page of the ITF website
A couple of articles in a Tegucigalpan paper here (large)
Day 9 - Friday 14th. Tegucigalpa: First Day of Competition
Women's team patterns win silver
Three Bronze medals in individual patterns: Alex, Bex and Kane
Day 9 update 1 from Gwyn Brown here.
Day 9 update 2 from Gwyn Brown here.One more pic added to Doug's Picks
Photos from Doug Hanna Thumbnails (faster) - or All-in-one-page
Day 8 - Thursday 13th. Tegucigalpa: Weigh-ins
Day 8 update from Gwyn Brown here.
Day 8 update part 2 from Gwyn Brown here.
Photos and notes from Doug Hanna Thumbnails (faster) - or All-in-one-page
(Sue typed up the schedule from the photo in yesterdays update, now at the left of the page :o)
Competition starts 1.30 am tonight, NZ time - ed:nb )
Day 7 - Wednesday 12th. Tegucigalpa: Training and shopping
Day 7 update from Gwyn Brown here.Photos and notes from Doug Hanna All-in-one-page
One more pic added to Doug's Picks
Brief note from Doug H.
Big training session indoors this morning and they're resting this afternoon, although there is a clothing outlet store 100 metres away which we sussed out this morning and it seems most of the team are planning on doing some damage there.
Doug
Day 6 - Tuesday 11th. Tegucigalpa: The trip to the country
Day 6 update from Gwyn Brown here.Photos and notes from Doug Hanna Thumbnails (faster) - or All-in-one-page
More photos Thumbnails (faster) - or All-in-one-page
More pics added to Doug's Picks
(ed:nb - you may have noticed oddities with this page late this afternoon - my worst nightmare - about to put up the update and the webserver is down! A call to webworld, they rebooted the server, and all appears to be go again - phew!!!)
Day 5 - Monday 10th. Tegucigalpa Honduras: The trip to the mall
Day 5 update from Gwyn Brown here.
Photos and notes from Doug Hanna Thumbnails (faster) - or All-in-one-page
More photos here (Captions added)
Day 4 - Sunday 9th. Texas to Honduras: Mr Brown reports they have arrived in Honduras, and he has wireless internet in his hotel!! (this is very dear to a journalist's heart :o) ed nb.
Day 4 update from Gwyn Brown here.
Photos and notes from Doug Hanna -
Thumbnails (faster) or
All-in-one-page
Day 3 - Saturday 8th. Houston: Training and shopping
Day 3 update from Gwyn Brown here.
Photos from Doug Hanna - Thumbnails (faster) - or - All-in-one-page
Day 2 - Friday 7th, Houston time: Great overcast morning, very humid, hot, and looking forward to NASA.
Day 2 update from Gwyn Brown here.
Photos from Doug Hanna - Thumbnails (faster) - or - All-in-one-page
Doug has sent some captions, added to the all-in-one page.
Day 1 - Thursday 6th: the flight from Auckland to Los Angeles to Houston Texas.
Day 1 update from Gwyn Brown here.
6 July: The team took to the air this evening, around 12 hours flight to Los Angeles. They should hit there mid afternoon the day they left :o)
7 July: After a 2 hr stop in Los Angeles, they then have a 3 1/2 hr flight to Houston Texas - arriving there after our lunchtime Friday.
It will be 9'ish on Thursday night there.
They will have two full days, three nights, in Houston, before flying on to Honduras.
(pre-departure articles moved to main Junior Champs page)
Honduras is in Central America, between (among others) Mexico and Panama.
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