TKFGB athletes participated in WTKF World Championship and Open World Cup, in Lima, Peru 2024.
Our competitors finished the competition with such fantastic results, with Adriana Peiseniece becoming the World Champion in individual kumite and Kristine Rubina winning both kata and kumite at the Open World Cup.
In total, we are taking back home 16 medals!!!
Full results below:
🥇Adriana Peiseniece – individual kumite 1st place
🥈Kristina Samsonova – individual kumite 2nd place
🥉Adriana Peiseniece and David Swiech – enbu w/m 3rd place
🥉Timofej Kabak and Patryk Godzisz – enbu m/m 3rd place
🥉Adriana Peiseniece, Alina Rubina, Kristina Samsonova – team kata 3rd place
🥉Timofej Kabak, David Swiech, Patryk Godzisz – team kata 3rd place
🥉Kristina Samsonova – individual kata 3rd place
🥉Kristina Samsonova – fukugo 3rd place
Open World Cup results:
🥇Kristine Rubina – individual kumite 1st place
🥇Kristine Rubina – individual kata 1st place
🥈Adriana Peiseniece – indyvidual kata 2nd place
🥈Kristina Samsonova – individual kata 2nd place
🥈David Swiech – individual kumite 2nd place
🥉Adriana Peiseniece – kogo kumite 3rd place
🥉Kristina Samsonova – individual kumite 3rd place
🥉Alina Rubina – individual kumite 3rd place

This year’s Gasshuku in Dojo Stara Wies was filled with intensive practice of the basics and the development of explosive start techniques.
Kata study and application were based on Jitte, which offered diverse opportunities for bunkai development.

Brilliant lead from the world’s most experienced karate coaches: Sensei Justo Gomez (ITKF) and sensei Witold Kwiecinski (WTKF), supported by sensei Pawel Janusz (PUKT), multiple kata World Champion and sensei Rytis Bublevicius (Fudokan, Koryu Karate), Active Close Protection senior instructor.

Stara Wies features a unique, natural environment, the calm of nature, and an undisturbed source of energy. Three and a half days filled with 3-4 training sessions a day, passed in a proverbial blink of an eye. We are already looking forward to Gasshuku 2025.

TKFGB National Squad training and 4^th Peterborough TK Cup – this year the June event was highlighted by the arrival of the legendary Shotokan Karate master and coach, Sensei Justo Gomez, 7^th Dan, of Argentina. Sensei Gomez, a multiple World Champion, accepted the invitation and delivered two days of in-depth study of kumite (fighting) and bunkai (application of kata). Over 150 athletes, local and international gathered to make the most of the meaningful explanations. What is equally important, everyone drew from Sensei’s spirit and the energy was almost tangible across the dojo.

Sensei Gomez also honoured the competition that followed later on Sunday and passed on his valuable feedback.
The 4^th Peterborough TK Cup ended up as a tough competition, with the athletes showing both the skills and will to fight. Overall, the event exceeded the initial expectations and left everyone with tonnes of food for thought and inspiration for future training.