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TORONTO, ONT.:<\/strong> More than half the athletes that went to a national taekwondo championship last week came home with medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inner Strength Taekwondo in Wellington sent 11 black belt athletes to the Canadian National Taekwondo Nationals in Toronto from Jan. 4-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Master Helbert Porter also accompanied them as head coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Six of the athletes had to pack extra luggage for the trip home\u2014three of them gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Winning national gold were Raya Porter; Ronan Sinclair; and Skyler Sinclair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other athletes bringing home medals were: silver medals for Nicholas Skinner; Ciara Bennett; and Jonah Priddle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jonah Priddle also won bronze in a separate division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Up next for the athletes will be the Canada Open, scheduled for February 24-25 in Vancouver, B.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After that event, the athletes and their families will board a plane to head south of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The group will head to Las Vegas, Nevada, where the U.S. Open will be held from March 4-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”93″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”111″] TORONTO, ONT.: More than half the athletes that went to a national taekwondo championship last week came home with medals. Inner Strength Taekwondo in Wellington sent 11 black belt athletes to the Canadian National Taekwondo Nationals in Toronto from Jan. 4-7. Master Helbert Porter also accompanied them as head coach. Six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,21],"tags":[4461,224,4462,226,143],"class_list":["post-33603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-canadian-national-taekwondo-championships","tag-inner-strength-taekwondo","tag-raya-porter","tag-taekwondo","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}