{"id":54033,"date":"2025-05-02T19:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=54033"},"modified":"2025-05-02T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:22:06","slug":"sinclair-earns-pan-american-tkd-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=54033","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair earns Pan American TKD gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WELLINGTON:<\/strong> A Fall River Taekwondo athlete returned home last month from Mexico with a gold medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronan Sinclair competed at the Pan American Junior Championships for Taekwondo on April 6 in Queretaro, Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was there as part of the 2025 Team Canada\u2019s Junior Kyorugi (Sparring) Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinclair competed in the +78kg Heavyweight Junior male category for Canada and was ultimately victorious overall in his division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He brought home one of four Gold Medals that came home to Canada with the Junior team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The squad was made up of the top Olympic Style Taekwondo Athletes from across Canada in their age groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were 10 Males and 10 Females, each occupying a single division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinclair trains and competes under Master Helbert Porter at Inner Strength Taekwondo Academy in Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was Ronan\u2019s fourth consecutive year on Team Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spent his first two years on the Cadet Team and the last two on the Junior Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinclair has medalled at each of the four Pan American Championships he has competed in with Team Canada &#8211; two gold and two silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON: A Fall River Taekwondo athlete returned home last month from Mexico with a gold medal. Ronan Sinclair competed at the Pan American Junior Championships for Taekwondo on April 6 in Queretaro, Mexico. He was there as part of the 2025 Team Canada\u2019s Junior Kyorugi (Sparring) Team. Sinclair competed in the +78kg Heavyweight Junior male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[2,2806,224,8273,3689,143],"class_list":["post-54033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-fall-river","tag-gold","tag-inner-strength-taekwondo","tag-pan-ams","tag-ronan-sinclair","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54033","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=54033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}