47th Australian Kendo Championships 2025 Results!!!

Over the 2025 Easter weekend (April 19-20), we sent 14 members of our club to Canberra to represent Team New South Wales at the 47th annual Australian Kendo Championships (AKC)!!

Dan Members

• Kyte Gurner
• Alan Kishikawa
• Jordan Saito-Patch
• Kelvin Tran
• Kelly Kishikawa
• Gratia Nguyen
• Iris Somera
• Shannon Tong
• Samantha Zhong

Kyu Members

• James Hu
• Waeylin Pan
• Sohrab Khaleghi Rad
• John Su
• Yasaman Motazedi

This year was a strong year for Team NSW, winning first place in 6 of 8 championships!! Our club members brough back some AMAZING results this year – fantastic work all around!

Club Member Results:

Men’s Kyu Individuals

Best of 8 – John Su

Men’s Dan Individuals

1st Place! – Alan Kishikawa

3rd Place – Jordan Saito-Patch

Best of 8 – Kelvin Tran

Women’s Kyu Individuals

3rd Place – Yasaman Motazedi

Women’s Dan Individuals

1st Place! – Kelly Kishikawa

3rd Place – Gratia Nguyen and Iris Somera

Best of 8 – Samantha Zhong

Men’s Dan Team

1st Place – NSW (Featuring Jordan Saito-Patch, Alan Kishikawa, Kyte Gurner, and Kelvin Tran)

Women’s Open Team

1st Place – NSW (Featuring Kelly Kishikawa, Iris Somera, Samantha Zhong, Shannon Tong, and Gratia Nguyen)

Men’s Kyu Teams

1st Place – NSW (Featuring John Su)

Women’s Kyu Teams

1st Place – NSW (Featuring Yasaman Motazedi)

Congratulations to everyone, not just to our club, but to all of the Australian teams!

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Many of our members also attended (and passed!) the National Kendo Dan Grading on Tuesday 22nd April (how do they still have the energy after all that competition?!?!). Congratulations to all of those who passed – a special shout out to Fujito Sensei and Tomo Hu, who achieved their 5th Dan with flying colours!!

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Enjoy some more action shots!