Burnaby Karate Academy won 11 individual division disciplines at the Karate B.C. provincial championships in Richmond last month.
Dylan Robinson and Matt Ly both won gold in their respective 75 and 67kilogram weight class in kumite, or sparring. Ly also won a bronze medal in the 18-to-20 age class.
Harpreet Sidhu also took gold in the women's plus-68kg in a BKA podium sweep with clubmates Sarah Jenkins and Kim Logan.
Jenkins and Sidhu also placed second and third, respectively, behind academy clubmate Reid Lofstrom in the 18-to-20 division. Lofstrom also won the women's gold at 68kg.
Anisha Virk was runner-up in both the adult and teen women's kumite.
West River Academy's Victoria Barusic placed second in the women's and third in the teen's u-50kg sparring.
BKA's Aya Kitaoka placed first in the 14/15 girls plus-54kg advanced kumite. She also stepped up a class in weight and age and took second place.
Cassia Kitaoka was second in the 14/15 division.
Alexandra Zaborniak and Zoe Ye finished first and second in the 14/15 girls' advanced u-54kg. Ye also earned third place behind winner and club-mate Gurkamal Gill in the 16/17 fighting final.
Vanessa Vung won the 16/17 girls' final at u-48kg.
Melissa Chan and Zoe Fong took the top two places in 14/15 u-47kg girls' advanced sparring.
Jai Sanghera won the u-70kg boys' kumite and stepped up in age to take the bronze at 16/17.
Brendan Ly and Arjun Gill both won gold in their age groups at plus-76 and u57kg, respectively.
Joel Tai took the silver medal behind Gill. Kieran Quan placed third in the 14/15 u-52kg boys' kumite.
In opening day action at the two-day provincials, Burnaby Academy martial artists Michael Plunkett, Harley Beaudry, Jimmy Zaborniak, Rishi Sharma, Gurneet Sidhu, Julie MacLean, Caitlyn Santos and Burnaby Chito Ryu member Veronica Juris, in the women's intermediate kata won gold medals.
Gur Hothi, Justin Ng, Ellen Thomas, Stephi Zaborniak of BKA and Chito Ryu's Kaitlyn Graff and the 14/17 kata team of Julia Sharma, Steven Sharma and Daya Gill all took silver medals.
Steven Sharma and Julia Sharma both won an individual kata bronze. Gill was third in both 14/15 girls' intermediate kata and kumite.
Chito Ryu's Delbert Fizzell earned a third-place medals in master men's kata and kumite. Rainell Cordoviz won bronze in master's kumite. Also earning a bronze medal was BKA's Natasha Lam. [email protected]
