DOUBLE World Championship medallist Damon Sansum has announced his retirement at the age of 32. The former kickboxing champion has been part of the GB Taekwondo high performance squad for nine years after successfully transitioning through the Fighting Chance talent ID initiative. Sansum took the tough decision with his opportunity of making an Olympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020 looking …
Two out of three ain’t Brad! Sinden & Cho bring home bronze whilst teammates secure golden haul in Austria Bradly Sinden collected his first medal since becoming Britain’s inaugural male world champion with teammates collecting six more across two European continents. But for the first time in 2019 Sinden tasted defeat, losing in the semi-finals of the Rome Grand Prix …
World Championship bronze medallist Aaliyah Powell is among four promising youngsters elevated to GB Taekwondo’s senior performance squad. The Huddersfield teenager and reigning junior world champion is joined at the National Taekwondo Centre by Manchester 2019 teammate, Mason Yarrow, plus Caden Cunningham and Chloe Roberts. Like Powell, Cunningham is a member of Quest Taekwondo. Yarrow learned his taekwondo trade at …