{"id":40536,"date":"2019-12-17T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-wins-six-medals-during-korean-ambassador-s\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:22:30","slug":"rwanda-wins-six-medals-during-korean-ambassador-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-wins-six-medals-during-korean-ambassador-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda wins six medals during \u2018Korean Ambassador’s Cup\u2019 Taekwondo World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u2018Korean Ambassador\u2019s Cup 2019\u2019 is an annual competition that was for this year organized by Tanzania Taekwondo Federation in partnership with the Embassy of Korea in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

The annual Taekwondo competition, sponsored by the South Korean Embassy in Kigali, attracted several athletes from different clubs across the East African Community (EAC) and The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n

Rwanda won 5 gold medals from Uwababyeyi Delphine who plays in the \u2018under 53kg\u2019 category, Ndacyayisenga Aline who plays in the \u2018Under 57kg\u2019 category and Sekanyambo Jean-Paul who plays in the \u2018Under 58kg\u2019 category.<\/p>\n

Munyakazi Vincent who plays in the \u2018Under 74kg\u2019 category and Mwemezi Cedric in the \u2018Under 87kg\u2019 also won gold medals while Kayitare Benoit in the \u2018Under 63kg\u2019 category won a silver medal.<\/p>\n

In general, Rwanda won third place in the competition based on the addition of all medals won by individual players.<\/p>\n

Rwandans also won the most valuable player (MVP) award in the women\u2019s team from Uwababyeyi Delphine, the best trainer from Bagire Allain Irene and best referee from Mushambokazi Zura.<\/p>\n

Concluding the competition, the Ambassador of Korea in Tanzania commended the contribution of Rwanda in the organization of the competition where Rwanda Taekwondo Federation lent scoring equipment for counting points during the competition and staff to operate them.<\/p>\n

Rwanda Taekwondo Federation will land in Kigali on Tuesday, December 17th, 2019.
\nTaekwondo players will immediately return to their respective teams as they prepare for the annual \u2018Gorilla Open Taekwondo Championships\u2019 held in Kigali from December 20th to December 22nd, 2019.<\/p>\n

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6 players of the Rwandan Taekwondo team have won five gold and one silver medals during the 2019 Korean Ambassador’s Cup Taekwondo World Championship that was held in Arusha, Tanzania on Sunday, December 15th, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40536"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40536"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}