{"id":36390,"date":"2025-06-05T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=36390"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:20:12","slug":"shaolins-hanna-yousefi-agrin-mousavian-chelsea-masucci-and-albert-wu-win-kung-fu-gold-at-martial-arts-championships-at-sarc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/shaolins-hanna-yousefi-agrin-mousavian-chelsea-masucci-and-albert-wu-win-kung-fu-gold-at-martial-arts-championships-at-sarc\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaolin\u2019s Hanna Yousefi, Agrin Mousavian, Chelsea Masucci, and Albert Wu win Kung-Fu gold at Martial Arts Championships at SARC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In addition to Shaolin\u2019s seven Sanda gold medalists at the Ontario Martial Arts Championships, the host club also ascended the podium nine times in Taolu at SARC\u2019s Desjardins Gym last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanna Yousefi (U9), Agrin Mousavian (U11), Chelsea Masucci (12-14), and Albert Wu (15-17) captured gold medals in The Forms\/Pattern segment of the two-day competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masucci also captured a bronze medal in Traditional Kung-Fu Short Weapon event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Podium finishers from the Shaolin Martial Arts Club in Aurora were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditional Kung-Fu Barehand Male U-9yo: Tyrus Liu \u2013 Silver; Traditional Kung-Fu Barehand Female U-9: Hanna Yousefi \u2013 Gold; Traditional Kung-Fu Barehand Male U-11: Tom Shishkin \u2013 Bronze; Traditional Kung-Fu Barehand Female U-11: Agrin Mousavian \u2013 Gold \/ Emily Pereira \u2013 Silver; Traditional Kung-Fu Barehand Female 12-14: Chelsea Masucci \u2013 Gold \/ Jessie Kevin Yuan \u2013 Silver; Traditional Kung-Fu Long Weapon Male 15-17: Albert Wu \u2013 Gold; and Traditional Kung-Fu Short Weapon Female 12-14: Chelsea Masucci \u2013 Bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total, Shaolin Martial Arts Club earned 26 podium finishes at the Ontario Martial Arts Championships, including eleven golds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Wakefield\u2014a Grandmaster 9th<\/sup> Degree Black Belt \u2013 said he was pleased by his athletes\u2019 performances in both Sanda and Taolu, but also expressed his gratitude as host of the provincial championships for the generous sponsorship of a local realtor with a long track record of supporting local youth sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLenard Lind was the proud sponsor of the Ontario Martial Arts Championships. Lenard has sponsored our previous events and we appreciate his generosity as an advocate of youth sports here in Aurora.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to Shaolin\u2019s seven Sanda gold medalists at the Ontario Martial Arts Championships, the host club also ascended the podium nine times in Taolu at SARC\u2019s Desjardins Gym last weekend.\u00a0 Hanna Yousefi (U9), Agrin Mousavian (U11), Chelsea Masucci (12-14), and Albert Wu (15-17) captured gold medals in The Forms\/Pattern segment of the two-day competition. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-06-05-05.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-9sW","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 08:48:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36392,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390\/revisions\/36392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}