Competitions
Since its foundation over 30 years ago members of CUKC have competed with great success at student, regional, national and international level, and competition is firmly grounded as one of the most important parts of life at the club. Training for competition centres around Monday night squad sessions, where the squad train for competition kumite (both shobu ippon and WKF), Friday nights, which are informal sparring sessions, and Thursday nights, which are for kata training.
Participants in competition who meet certain criteria are awarded 'blues'. The criteria are explained on this page and a record of past Blues awards can be found here.
This page catalogues the many competitive achievements of the club since the late 1980s. If you are able to help fill in the gaps before 2000, please get in touch with the webmaster.
KUGB Shotokan Cup 2022
The KUGB Shotokan is held annually in September and is effectively a second national championships, featuring all the best karateka in the KUGB. It's open to black and brown belts only. Shotocan Cup 2022
Photos
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Competition Report
The Shotokan Cup championships took place in Repton Derbyshire. This is the national individual championship of the KUGB and benefited from an increase in competitors compared with the last pre COVID Shotokan Cup.
Our entries from CUKC in this very challenging event were two of our instructors Tegwen Ecclestone and Fatima Torabi.
In the senior dan grade individual women's kata Tegwen performed Jiin and Fatima performed Go ju shi hosho, however on each of their sheets they faced stiff competition and despite great performances were unable to reach the final.
Tegwen had the misfortune to draw an ex world silver medalist in the first round of the senior women's dan grade kumite and despite valiant efforts to overcome her opponents considerable advantage in reach, lost an exciting duel.
Congratulations to both on flying the flag for CUKC at this high quality event.
Overall
Pictured below (left to right):
Fatima Torabi
Richard Poole
Tegwen Ecclestone
Competition Results
Women's Captain: Millie Johal
Women's Captain: Danielle Ball
Women's Captain: Eleanor Lee
Women's Captain:
Women's Captain: Nivedita Sarveswaran
Women's Captain: Ellen Weaver
Women's Captain: Ellen Weaver
Women's Captain: Amy Hall
Women's Captain: Tasha Nussbaum
Women's Captain: Caroline Tanner
Women's Captain: Emma Nunn
Women's Captain: Gosia Stanislawek
- KUGB Kyu Grades Championships 2011
- BUCS Karate Championships 2011
- KUGB Central Regions Championships 2011
- Varsity Match 2011
- Cambridge University vs Keio University Friendship Match 2011
- CUKC vs KUGB Northern Regions 2011
- KUGB Student National Championships 2010
- JKS British Open Championships 2010
- KUGB Shotokan Cup 2010
- KUGB National Championships 2010
Women's Captain: Stephanie McTighe
Women's Captain: Gemma Coughlin
Women's Captain: Madeleine Wood
Women's Captain: Su-Yin Tan (until Oct 06)
Women's Captain: Andy Hicks (vc) / Lianne Walsh
Women's Captain: Charlie Gray
Women's Captain: Sarah Owen
Women's Captain: Jenny Prior
Women's Captain: Andrea Brady
Women's Captain: Sam Holland
Women's Captain: Precious Lunga
Women's Captain: Chris Luecke
Women's Captain: Michelle Dickens
Women's Captain: Hazel Leidig
Women's Captain: Natasha Guy
Women's Captain: Sarah Lane
Women's Captain: Oyuna Sanjassaurian
Women's Captain: Laura Whitford
Women's Captain: Shona Cantrell
Competition Calendar
- 18/06/22: ANNUAL DINNER
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- 02/07/22: KUGB National championships
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The Varsity Match
The Varsity Match is an annual competition between the karate clubs of Cambridge and Oxford Universities. In the match, which is usually held in February, two men's teams and a women's team from each university compete in kata, team kata and kumite for the three team titles and the overall trophy, the Enoeda Cup.
Varsity 2020
Winners of the Enoeda Cup 2020: Cambridge
Team results:
- Men's A: Cambridge
- Men's B: Cambridge
- Women's: Cambridge
See the full report.