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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.We hope you enjoy our web site. If you are in the area, please stop by and visit
our facility. We are located at 3657 E. 112th Street, Chicago, IL. 60617. Our site is designed to give you more information
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2010 YOG Qualifier and Jr. Worlds Tijuana Mex. See Pics>> 2010 Spain Open See Pics>> 2009 Black Belt Test>>

Team is Back From Spain Open with Good Results
Gregory English US Youth Olympic Team Member Gold, Michelle Silva US Youth Olympic Team Member Bronce, Nick Yow lost in quarter finals, Alex Yow lost his first match, Emily Pearn lost her first match. They are AAU/USA National Team Members. Well job done!

USA Qualified Three Athletes for the First Ever Youth Olympic Games to be held in Singapore, August 14-26. Two are from ChamYon Team
Over 300 athletes from 85 Countries participated in the Youth Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tijuana, Mexico. March 3-4,
U.S.A. Was only able to qualify three out of the six athletes. Michelle Silva and Gregory Engish from our ChampYon Team, and Jesse Bates from Redondo Beach CAL.

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 Article Here >>

Christian Medina 2009 USAT & AAU National Team Member	Michelle Silva 2010 Youth Olympic and AAU National Team Member	Nick Yow and Alex Yow twins 2010 USAT & AAU National Team Members	Emily Pearn 2010 AAU National Team Member	Gregory English 2010 Youth Olympic & AAU National Team Member	Cora Torres 2010 U-24 USAT National Team Member

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