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North Midlands Championships
July 2026
Charlotte Heffernan led the medal tally with an outstanding three gold medals in the yellow belt divisions, winning Ladies’ Individual Patterns, Ladies’ Individual Sparring and Tag Team Sparring. Alicja Maciocha claimed silver in the Ladies’ Individual Patterns, completing a fantastic Daventry one-two.
A small but determined group of Daventry TKD students travelled to Derby Arena on Sunday 19 July for the 2026 TAGB North Midlands Taekwondo Championships.
It proved to be an extremely successful day, with most of the team returning home with medals.
In the ladies’ green belt division, Liz Williams secured bronze in Individual Patterns.
Our junior competitors also achieved some excellent results. Sophia Maciocha, aged just five, won bronze in the Girls’ Under-16 Individual Patterns competition, becoming our youngest-ever female individual patterns medallist.
Poppy Heffernan and Nelly Robinson both earned bronze medals in Individual Sparring, before Nelly went on to win gold in the Flying Kick competition.
Lorelai Kemp secured silver in the Girls’ Blue Belt Patterns division, while Charlotte Dunkley added another silver medal in the Girls’ Black Belt Patterns division.
Congratulations to all our competitors and officials on a superb set of performances and a very successful day for Daventry TKD!
Coloured Belt & Star Grading
July 2026
Sixty-six students from across Daventry, Woodford and Banbury TKD clubs took their grading exams on 8th July – all passed. It was particularly nice to see a good number achieving exceptional scores – there were 7 A* grades and 19 A grades, with all the rest achieving solid passes.
The winner of GM Oliver’s Best in Grading Award went to one of Daventry’s yellow tag ladies – Alicja Maciocha, who put in a particularly strong performance.
Honourable mentions go out to Gracie Wilson who made it a stunning 5 A* Grades in a row, which hasn’t been done for some time now – amazing achievement. And to the young lady from Woodford Halse, whose name we cannot publish, who achieved her 7 in a row trophy. Again, a brilliant achievement.
Well done to all who graded.
Coloured Belt Grading
April 2026
Another great grading from all our students over at Woodford Halse. Ruhaan blew the Grand Master away with his excellent performance, storming his way to the grading award. A huge step up for him, well done.
Midlands Championships
February 2026
Well done to all of the Daventry and Woodford Students who took part in the 2026 Midlands Championships in Kettering at the beginning of February. It was super to see some different faces taking part and well done to everyone who won medals.
Particular congratulations go to James for winning Gold in the boys black belt patterns division – amazing achievement! Also, to Ruhaan for taking his first Individual Patterns Gold in the boy’s Green Belt division and to Hermione for winning Gold at her debut tournament in the Ladies Yellow Belt patterns. This was particularly impressive given that she had only graded to Yellow Tag 5 days before the tournament! Sofiia also brought back her usual fistful of medals including Individual Gold in the Ladies Blue Belt sparring – great as always.
Pictured:
Gracie: Bronze in Individual Sparring,
Liz: Individual Patterns Bronze and Individual Sparring Gold(!),
Hermione: Individual Patterns Gold, and
Ruhaan: Individual Patterns Gold.