DAGUPAN CITY - The YMCA-based Dagupan City karate team displayed sports supremacy, having won a total of four bronze medals in the Milo Super Karate Kids Championship held at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila on July 30.

The winners are John Maverick Edralin (Creative Montessori-Lyceum Northwestern), Gian Mark Tamayo (West Central Elem. School), John Enrico Vasquez (Mother Goose) and Kurt Vidal (Ednas School).

According to Enrico Vasquez, Philippine Wado Ryu Karate-Do Federation president and Region I director, the Milo Super Karate Kids is the biggest karate tournament in Metro Manila organized by MILO and the Association for the Advancement of Karate-Do.

“The participation of Team Dagupan in the prestigious karate tournament exposed our young athletes to the Kobe Osaka International rules, which is being adopted in the World Karate Cup, and it helped them develop their character against the best of Manila players,” Vasquez said.

Pocholo Veguillas, MILO National organizer and president of the Association for the Advancement of Karate-Do, said that the Dagupan TEam has the potential to succeed in higher karate competition.

The event was participated in by teams from AAK Megamall, AAK SM North, AAK Mall of Asia, AAK Las Piñas, AAK Batangas, Japan Karate Association-Lipa, Batangas chapter, Association of Shotoka Karate-do in Cavite, St. Paul College, Ateneo de Manila, De La Sale-Zobel, Wado Ryu Karate-Do Institute in San Carlos City and San Lorenzo Ruiz College. (CIO/Leziel T. Cayabyab)