Aresh Beytoei won two black belt finals at the Karate B.C. provincials at the Richmond Olympic Oval earlier this month.
Beytoei won both the men’s black belt kumite or sparring titles in under-67 kilograms and at open weight for the Burnaby Karate Academy.
BKA martial artist Isaac Mand was a triple gold medalist, winning the 16 and 17 advanced u-61kg, the 18 to 20 advanced under-68kg and the men’s u-60kg black belt finals.
Brendan Ly won the men’s plus-84kg, while also placing second in the 18 to 20 advanced plus-78kg final.
Jai Sanghera and Kyle Macmillan both won their respective 16/17 advanced u-68 and u-78kg sparring divisions. Tai Joel was runner-up to Mand in the teen kumite final and a winner at 14/15 u-57kg.
Jacob Mand won the 14/15 u-63kg kumite, while Parris Gill placed third.
Arjun Gill, Kieran Quan and Masaki Soehardhi also placed top three in 14/15 kumite.
Nikkei Shito-Ryu silver medallists in advanced black belt Matthew Chang was second at 18 to 20 u-78kg, while Andrew Jones was runner-up in 16/17 plus-76kg.
In women’s sparring, BKA’s Cindy Jacobs beat clubmate Kim Logan at u-68kg and Nikkei’s Miho Kataoka in the black belt open weight division.
Kataoka also placed third behind BKA’s Gurkamal Gill and women’s division winner Anisha Virk at u-55kg and in the 18 to 20 u-60kg kumite. Kataoka also placed third alongside Victoria Barusic of Burnaby in the black belt and third again in 18 to 20 women’s kata or forms.
Barusic, who trains at West River Karate in Vancouver, won the 18 to 20 advanced kata, as well as u-50kg women’s sparring.
Harpreet Sidhu won both 18 to 20 advanced plus-60kg and the women’s plus-68kg.
Isabel Chan won the 16/17 advanced plus-48kg sparring, over finalists Vanessa Vung and Vickie Gialleli of Nikkei. Chan also won the 18 to 20 u-53kg over Gill. Chan was third in women’s u-50kg sparring as well.
Nikkei’s Claudia Laos-Loo won the 16/17 advanced kata and was third in u-53kg kumite behind BKA’s Rika Wong and Zoe Ye. Natasha Harland also placed third.
Zoe Fong and Stephanie Zaborniak placed first and second, respectively, in 14/15 advanced sparring.
Pawan Sidhu and Aya Kitaoka were also one-two in 16/17 advance kumite.
Alexandra Zaborniak won the 16/17 gold at u-59kg.
Angelica Gomez-Lalonde and Cassia Kitaoka both placed in their respective 14/15 weight classes.
