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Since 1982 Champion Tae Kwon Do Institute has been providing instructions in
Tae Kwon Do and Martial Arts in the Southeast community of Chicago.

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Here Illinois Athletes in Amsterdam with 1988 Olympic Gold Medal Master Arlin Limas and USAT Illinois State President Master Luciano Medina Click Here to See more Pics >>

Four of ChampYon Athletes Named to All-American
USA Taekwondo, the National Governing Body of Taekwondo in the United States and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee, recently announced the formation of the USA Taekwondo All-American program for its member athletes beginning in 2010. Read Artical Here >>

Christian Medina 2009 National Team Member	Michelle Silva 2010 Youth Olympic and AAU National Team Member	Nick Yow and Alex Yow twins 2010 National Team Members	Emily Pearn 2010 AAU National Team Member	Gregory English 2010 Youth Olympic & AAU National Team Member

2010 USAT Illinois State Taekwondo Championship will be Saturday March 13th at Triton College, River Grove, IL.
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2010 All American Challenge will be Saturday May 22nd
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The 2010 U.S. Junior World Team Trials Finalized Sunday, January 10th at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Spring, CO.

The U.S. Junior World Team Trials was finalized on Sunday with the qualification of 20 athletes, ten males and ten females who will represent the United States in the 2010 World Championship in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 5-7.

ChampYon Team had three athletes qualified for this event. "It was a great honor for me as a coach." said Master Medina, ChampYon Team Head Coach. "I had three athletes in this event and all three were in the final of the round robins." Alex Yow and Humberto Prado Jr. are team-mates and had to fight the first match in which Alex won by superiority. Humberto won his next two matches against other national opponents and meet Alex again in finals. Alex was undefeated and needed to win over Humberto once, while Humberto needed to win twice. Alex won the first final match and became the 2010 Bantam weight U.S. National Team Member. Humberto earned the Alternate seat.

Nick Yow who is Alex's twin brother won all his matches and became 2010 Light Weight U.S. National Team Member. Congratulations to Nick and Alex, hard work pays off!
ChampYon Team will have FOUR athletes in Tijuana, Mexico representing U.S. A. two in the Youth Olympic Qualifier and two in the Jr. World Championship. What a great honor for Master Medina who train these athletes!

2010 Junior World Championships Team Trials Open Qualifier at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The top four finishers in each of the weight divisions qualified for the 2010 Junior World Championships Team Trials/Fight-Off to
be held Jan. 9-10 in Colorado Springs. Five athletes from our team ChampYon competed. Brisa Morales, Emily Pearn, Nick Yow, Humberto Prado Jr., and Alex Yow. The results were great! Three of them qualified, Nick Yow, Alex Yow, and Humberto Prado Jr.

All Results of the 5th Junior Pan American Taekwondo Championships in El Salvador 2009
November 20-23, 2009, Palacio de Los Deportes, INDES, San Salvador El Salvador Two athletes represented USA from our ChampYon Team, Christian Medina and Gregory English, Gregory English WON Gold, Congratulations!

Six athletes were selected Friday November 06, 2009 during the Youth Olympic Games Team Trials at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center. The six winners will represent the U.S. at the Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament in Tijuana, Mexico, March 3-4, 2010. U.S. Athletes that place in the top six at the YOG Qualification Tournament will qualify for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, August 14-26.

Qualifying for the team were Jessie Bates (Redondo Beach, Calif.) in the female 44-49kg division, Selina Tubbs (Plano, Texas) in the female 49-55kg division, Michelle Silva (Chicago, Ill.) in the female over 63kg division, Gregory English (Chicago, Ill.) in the male under 48kg division, Olie Burton (Alexandria, Va.) in the male 48-55kg division, and Jeffery Williams (Blue Island, Ill.) in the male 55-63kg division.

The 1st World Teakwondo Leaders Forum was held in South Korea!
Master Luciano Medina together with 200 foreign masters from around the world were invited by the world Taekwondo Head quarters Kukkiwon to participate in the 1st World Taekwondo Leaders Forum. The event was held at Shila Hotel in South Korea from Sep.1-3. More news about this great event will be post here soon. To see more pics click HERE >>

2009 U.S. Jr. National Team
August 22nd and 23rd USAT held the USA Junior Team Trials in Colorado Spring, CO. Olympic Training Center. Top 4 athletes from past US Junior Olympics qualified for this event.Two athletes from our ChampYon Team got on the Team. Christian Medina and Gregory English.

The team will represent the USA in the Pan-American Games in El Salvador, November 20-22, 2009. Congratulations to Christian, and Gregory. job well done!

Team ChampYon USA got great results in USAT and AAU Nationals
AAU Nationals were held at Fort Lauderdale July 01, 2009. Eight athletes placed top 4, and will compete September 12, for spot on the National Team.
Team Trials will be held at Fort Lauderdale.

USAT Junior Olympics and Senior Nationals were held at Austin, TX July 02-05, 2009. Three athletes placed top 4, and will compete August 22, for Spot on the National Team. Team Trials will be held at Colorado Springs, CO.

Team ChampYon trained in Korea!
The Team was in Korea from June 15-23, as a preparation for US Nationals. To see pics click >>HERE

The 2009 All American Challenge was a great success!
Over 400 athletes from around the Country as well as Mexico and Europe competed this past June 06.

We thank Lajust for the outstanding work, by running the tournament with the electronic chest protectors, we feel very honored being the first tournament in the USA to be run by this system, besides US Open and other International events. We got a very good feed back from all the athletes about the system, they said "it is great thing that everybody should be using it".

We also thank Master Chuong Pham, our tournament referee chairman, for his always support. Master Eric Laurin, tournament coordinator, this man does miracle running a tournament what a great job he did. All the people that supported the tournament, thank you so much. Any comments, good or bad, do not hesitate. Please send us an e-mail to: champion3657@yahoo.com