Master Julio Vásquez: ¡El Barahonero de la Semana!
Julio Vásquez es de Barahona. Tiene más de 20 años viviendo fuera de la República Dominicana. En la actualidad reside en la ciudad de Toronto, Canada. Su vida esta ligada completamente al deporte y más concretamente al "Tae Kwon Do".
Master y cinturón negro en esta modalidad lleva más de 30 años en la práctica de este deporte. Su trayectoria deportiva nos ha impresionado y su palmarés y reconocimientos deportivos son extensos representando a la República Dominicana durante gran parte de su carrera.
A continuación publicamos una lista de la impresionante trayectoria de éste barahonero ejemplar (Excusenme que está en inglés):
1979 - Silver Medal at the Dominican Republic Summer Games
1981 - Gold Medal at the Dominican Summer Games
1981 - Taekwondo Tour of Mexico
1982 - Dominican National Team Member at the World Championships in Ecuador
1982 - Panamerican TKD Championships in Dominican Republic
1983 - Dominican National Championships - Silver Medal
1984 - Dominican National Team Member for Panamerican TKD Championships in Surinam
1985 - On April 17, Master Vásquez came to Canada. In August of 1985,
Master Vasquez started training at the only W.T.F. school he could find in T.O.
His first tournament was two weeks later at the C.N.E. Taekwondo (I.T.F.) Championships.
He won 1st place.
1986 - Ontario Champion
1986 - Canadian National Championships - 2nd place
1987 - Ontario Champion
1987 - Canadian National Champion and Dominican National Champion.
1987 - Pan American Games, Indianapolis, USA - Bronze Medal and selected for the World Championships
in Barcelona, Spain.
1987 - Nominated for Dominican Republic Athlete of the Year - Taekwondo
1988 - Ontario Champion
1989 - Ontario Champion
1989 - Canadian National Champion
1989 - World Championships in Seoul, Korea
1990 - Ontario Champion
1990 - Canadian National Champion
1990 - World Cup, Madrid Spain
1991 - Panamerican TKD Championships, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1992 - took a year off from TKD
1993 - Dominican National Champion
1993 - World Championships, New York City, USA
1994 - Ontario Champion
1994 - Canadian National Team Member
1994 - Panamerican TKD Championships, Costa Rica
1995 - Ontario Champion
1995 - Canadian National Champion
1995 - Pan American Games, Argentina - Bronze Medal
1995 - World Championships - Manila, Phillipines
1995 - Dominican National Champion
1995 - Central American TKD Championships, Dominican Republic
1995 - Nominated Dominican Repbulic Athlete of the Year - Taekwondo
1996 - Panamerican TKD Championships, Havana, Cuba
1998 - US Open, Orlando, Florida
1999 - Dominican National Champion
1999 - Central American Sub-Regional Pan Am Games Qualifier, Aruba - Silver Medal
1999 - World Championships, Edmonton, Alberta
1999 - Pan American Games, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2002 - Provincial Team Member
2004 - Canadian Team Manager, 2004 Pan-American Games, Santo Domingo
2005 - Canadian Team Coach, National Training Camp, Dominican Republic
- Nominated as Dominican Republic Athlete of the Year in 1987 and 1995.
El Barahonero se siente muy honrado por escoger a julio Vásquez como: ¡El Barahonero de la Semana!
¡¡¡LA VERDAD SIN INSULTOS!!!
(HRCV)
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