Josipa recently returned from the Dominican Republic and has Qualified for the Olympics. After three tough fought matches she was able to pull through and take the win. The third match was a extremely close, going a full three rounds and ending with a referee…
Josipa Kafadar has been selected to represent Canada at the 2024 Paris Olympic Continental Qualifier in April. A top two finish at the event will earn her nomination for a spot at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Best of luck Josipa.
Eight athletes from Vortex Taekwondo attended the 2023 Canadian National Championships bringing home seven medals. Leading the Medal count was one of our senior instructors Master Shane Britton, winning Gold in the -63Kg category, earning a spot on National Team. Sofie Nicholson also won gold…
Josipa Kafadar was selected to compete in the World Grand Prix being held in Sofia Bulgaria this October. The Grand Prix is an invite only competition of the top 70 athletes in the world per category. The list is then reduced down to only 32…
12 members of Vortex Taekwondo traveled to Portland on June 14-16th to compete in the 2019 Pan-Am Open Championships bringing home 6 medals. Jade Lee fought in the Pan-Am Championships representing team Canada for the first time. Unfortunately she lost her first match to Puerto…
On May 18th 2019 Josipa Kafadar competed in the 2019 Senior World Championships. In her first round she competed against Cyprus and won her match 15-0. In her next match she faced Wu Jing Yu of China, a three time world champion and two time…
Josipa Kafadar won the silver medal at the 2018 World Taekwondo Championships held in Tunisia in April. After 5 matches from some of the best fighters in the world Josipa faced the defending world champion form Vietnam in the final. After a tense match Josipa just…
Fours members of the Woo Kim Surrey Elite Team became Provincial Registered Athletes. From left Ethan Jenkins, Mya Nicholson, Shane Britton and Josipa Kafadar. The Canadian Sport Institute targets high performance athletes in all sports across the province and enrolls them into a registration program…
