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Team Canada left the 2022 University Combat Sports World Cup held in Samsun, Turkey with a pair of bronze medals in karate.
Karim Ghaly of the University of Ottawa and Claudia Laos Loo of Simon Frasier University earned hardware for the Canadian contingent that sent 14 athletes in karate and boxing.
Ghaly, originally from Giza, Egypt, was the top-ranked Canadian prospect in individual Kata heading into the event. The third-year engineering student defeated Mesfer Alasmari of Saudi Arabia to clinch bronze.
Laos Loo, originally born in Lima, Peru, took to the mats with the top national ranking in individual kata. The recent graduate of medicine and health at Simon Fraser University took gold at the 2022 Karate Canada Senior Team trials held in Calgary in February.
Keeping momentum on the international stage, the 25-year-old Laos Loo bested Jana Vanusanikova of Slovakia in the bronze medal match to bring Canada’s medal count to two at the World Cup.
Mélissa Baillargeon (Université Laval), Shon Zinger (York University) and Alexandre St-Arneault (HEC Monteal) all competed for bronze, narrowly falling short of the podium in karate events.
Karate
| men's | School |
|
Fernando Aguilera |
UBC |
|
Yahya Alem |
HEC Montréal |
|
Ahmed Mouloudj |
Université de |
|
Alexandre St-Arneault |
HEC Montréal |
|
Hassan-Khalid Zakaryaa |
McGill |
|
Shon Zinger |
York |
|
Karim Ghaly |
Ottawa |
| women's | School |
|
Mélissa Baillargeon |
Laval |
|
Christina Lemoyne-Elliott |
Montréal |
|
Yasmine Mokarnia |
Cegep Marie-Victorin |
|
Claudia Laos Loo |
Simon Fraser |
Boxing
| Men's | School |
|
Sean Finnegan |
Crandall |
|
Maximus Tomines |
Crandall |
|
Isaiah Haya |
Crandall |