We’re ready for world championships says Karate coach

Rwanda junior Karate team is ready to win medals at the World Juniors and Cadet Karate Championships 2013 set for November 7-10, in Guadalajara, Spain, national team coach Ruslan Adamov has said. After four members of a team of six returned with four bronze medals from the Seventh Cadets, Junior and Under-21 years African Championships, which ran from August 26-September 2 in Tunis, the team went on rigorous training.The three selected to represent the country in Spain are; Vanelly Ngarambe, Christian Rurangayire and Solange Ingabire.The delegation, which also includes Russian Adamov and the Rwanda Karate Federation (Ferwaka) technical director, Guy Didier Rurangayire, leaves on Monday via Doha in Qatar.Adamov told Times Sport on Saturday, “The team trained well and is in a very good shape. I am optimistic we’ll bring home some accolades. After Tunisia, we worked on some a few weaknesses we had observed and corrected them.”“We have been improving and we hope to continue in that path. The team members are working hard and enjoying themselves too, he added.Of the trio, only Ingabire won bronze in Tunis, but the two young men also performed to their coach’s satisfaction. The Guadalajara championships will attract close to 100 countries. During the most recent Africa meet at the El Menzah Sports palace in the Olympic City in Tunis, Jeanne d’Arc Umumararungu, 17, Alphani Nsabimana, 19, Aisha Umuhoza, 19, and Ingabire, 20, each won bronze in their respective categories.In Spain, the trio will each tussle it out with opponents in their respective open sparring [Kumite] competitions. Rurangayire, 20, will fight opponents in the over 78kg category, Ngarambe, 20, in the under 68kg category, while the only female, Ingabire, will take on ladies in the over 60kg category.