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13th World Kendo Championships
December 8-10, 2006
Taipei, Taiwan

(updated 6/2/07)
  • Team USA Defeats Japan in 13WKC semifinals!
    USA Captures 2nd in Men's Team Competition, Korea takes 1st Place

    Do You Believe in Miracles? (Kendo Jidai article by Chris Yang, Team USA Captain)

  • Results (bold=USA)
     
     
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    FS     		Women's Individ
    12/8/2006
    S Sugimoto (JPN)
    K Komuro (JPN)
    E Inagaki (JPN)
    M Shimokawa (JPN)
    D Yokoo (GER)
    S Mikuni (USA)
    Y Park (KOR)
    L Chen (TPE)
    S Cho (TPE)
    M Hayashi (CAN)
    A Byeon (KOR)
    A Sipos (HUN)     		Women's Team
    12/8/2006
    Japan
    Korea
    Germany
    Canada
    J Yeh (TPE)
    E Onaka (BRA)
    H Aboutaleb (AUS)
    E Chen (HK)
    F Tresmodi (ITA)
    B Kiraly (HUN)
    A Birch (GBR)
    C Garcia (FRA)     		Men's Individ
    12/9/2006
    M Hojo (JPN)
    T Tanaka (JPN)
    S Kang (KOR)
    G Oh (KOR)
    S Kamata (CAN)
    C Cheng (TPE)
    G Sicart (FRA)
    S Harada (JPN)
    M Ho (TPE)
    D Castro (SPN)
    M Frey (FIN)
    C Yang (USA)     		Men's Team
    12/10/2006
    Korea
    USA
    Japan
    Taipei
    S Harris (HW)
    E Samuelson (SWE)
    S Gibbson (GBR)
    M Wial (POL)
    S Casparin (HUN)
    J Sengfelder (GER)
    E Onaka (BRA)
    D Taguchi

  • Team USA members (bold=SCKF)

    • Manager: Shikai, Masashi (CHUO)
      Men's coach: Onitsuka, Yuji (SAL)
      Women's coach: Nishimoto, Naomi (OAK)
      Trainer: Nemeti, Attila (STYO)

    • Men's team
      Yang, Christopher (TOR) captain
      Harada, Brandon (STYO)
      Kawabata, Marvin (NY)
      Maruyama, Santei (BTK)
      Yang, Daniel (TOR)
      Itokazu, Fumihide (COV)
      Hashimoto, Kunito (CHUO)
      Yoo, Simon (TOR)
      Brown, Jason (TOR)

    • Women's team
      Tew, Saeko (COV) co-captain
      Sakae, Mitsuyo (STYO) co-captain
      Anderson, Emi (STYO)
      Hagiwara, Mika (STYO)
      Kikunaga, Kaori (SJ)
      Mikuni, Reika (SJ)
      Aono, Adriene (OAK)
      Domen, Sumi (NOR)

  • 13WKC information

  • video clips from youtube

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