10 Gold, 5 Silver & 8 Bronze at World Championships

Team Ireland finished the ITF World Championships in Tampere, Finland with an impressive 10 Gold, 5 Silver and 8 Bronze medals. The ITF World Championships saw over 1,100 black belt athletes from 60 nations take to the mats in the first week of September 2023. Congratulations to all our team Ireland coaches, managers, umpires, athletes and supporters for a fantastically successful campaign. Ireland finished in 2nd place in the senior rankings, 4th in the junior rankings and 4th in the pre-junior rankings.

Medalists:

Gold:

Sarah Lehane, Senior -60kg Sparring

Ciara Fitzsimons, Senior -55kg Sparring

Finn Martin, Senior -57kg Sparring

Shane Allison, Junior -75kg Sparring

Lexie Burke, Junior -49kg Sparring

Cara Byrne, Pre-Junior -44kg sparring

Ciara Pender, Pre-Junior -56kg Sparring

Senior Male Team Sparring (Shane Tuite, James Tuite, Luke Moriarty, Finn Martin, Leard Xheladini, Bartosz Bien)

Senior Female Team Sparring (Sarah Lehane, Christine Franks, Ciara Fitzsimons, Sarah Reddin Conroy, Antonia Szanto, Abi Hickey)

Junior Male Team Pattern (David Larkin, David Croft, Cian Barrett, Lucian Neumann, Luke Tighe)