Taekwondo Federation Draw Plans For 2014

Agbim

The President of the Ni
geria Taekwondo Federation (NTF), George Ashiru, last Tuesday said the body had concluded arrangements for an eventful sporting year.
Ashiru said in a statement that he was optimistic about a good outing in the year because of the Korean Taekwondo coach engaged by the federation would assume duties in February.
“Kim Bin-Jeom, a Korea-born coach will assume duties in Nigeria in the first week of February.
“I want to thank everyone for support in 2013 as we wait for the federation’s foreign high performance taekwondo coach to assume duties,’’ he said.
According to him, the resumption of the coach has further raised the federation’s optimism toward effective participation in five international and nine domestic championships.
He said the international championships targeted by the federation were the World Youth Olympic Qualifiers and the World Junior Championships scheduled for March in Taipei, Taiwan.
Others are the 2nd African Youth Championships in May in Gabonerone, Botswana, the 2014 Youth Olympics in August in China and the November Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
At the national level, he said the federation would be participating in the “Dan Grading Competitions’’ pegged for six states.
The states expected to host the competitions scheduled to hold from January to June are Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Benin and Ibadan.
The federation, he said, would close its activities in the year with the 3rd CSSF International Open Championships in September and the December 2nd Lagos Taekwondo Classics.
There will also be the Korean Ambassadors Championships to be hosted by Abuja and Lagos respectively.
The other events in the federation’s 2014 calendar are a media seminar, National Kyorugi Referee Course, National Coaching Course and the National Poomase Referee Course.