The Philippine karate team brought home six gold medals in the recent 11th Southeast Asian Karate Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. PH national karate team (Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation Inc.) Led by SEA Games and Asian Games medalist Sakura Alforte, the karatekas also bagged one silver and...
Karate Pilipinas president Richard Lim hopes to use the winning momentum of Junna Tsukii to inspire more Filipino karatekas after the Filipina-Japanese won the historic gold medal in the World Games. Junna Tsukii (Photo from Junna Tsukii's Facebook account) Lim said the federation has found the...
Junna Tsukii sees a brighter future for the Philippine karate national team following her historic success in the World Games. Junna Tsukii flexer her World Games gold medal (Carlo Anolin) Tsukii, who bagged gold medal in the -50kg category of kumite in the World Games , expressed gratitude to the...
Filipino karatekas are set to take home multiple medals after their promising performance in the 2021 Asian Karate Federation (AKF) Karate Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan over the week. John Enrico Vasques, Sakura Alforte, and Lemon Misu bag bronze medals in the U-21 men's kata, women's senior...
The national karate team still has two weeks left to decide whether it will compete at the 2021 World Karate Championships next month in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Philippine Karate team in Baguio City (Photo from Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation Inc. Facebook) Richard Lim, president of the...
The national karate team preparing for the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Vietnam next year hopes to get an approval from the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) for ba ubble training in Baguio City. Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation, Inc. president Richard Lim said they have already submitted...
Junna Tsukii Southeast Asian (SEA) Games gold medalist Junna Tsukii failed on her quest to clinch a spot in the Tokyo Olympics after a 2-1 defeat to Ivet Goranova of Bulgaria in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) Friday morning (Friday night in Manila) in Paris, France. Tsukii, who had...
The karatedo national team, led by Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation, Inc. president Richard Lim, fifth from right, visits Consul General Arvin de Leon, fifth from left, at the Philippine Consulate in Turkey last week prior to their departure for Paris, France for Olympic Qualifying Tournament on...
Philippines' Jamie Christine Lim (red) wins against Indonesia's Zefanya Ceyco in +61kg Kumite at World Trade Center, December 9, 2019. (MB File Photo) The Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation plans to send its athletes to a training camp in Istanbul, Turkey in preparation for the world qualification...
In this file photo, Jamie Christine Lim, daughter of PBA great Samboy 'Skywalker' Lim, shares a light moment with her mother and former PAG-IBIG Fund CEO Darlene Berberabe during the awarding ceremony of the +61kg kumite event in the 30th Southeast Asian Games at World Trade Center in Pasay last...
