Thus it was lived the XVI Republic Argentina ’s Open.

With the view to the accomplishment of the next Martial Arts World Championship “Argentina 2008” , it realized the XVI edition of the Republic Argentina’s Open made by the Ham Do organization.
The championship closed and initiated a new stage of the Argentina Tour circuit, where in the 2007, was composed by 32 qualifying events.
Delegations from Venezuela , Brazil , Peru , Chile and Uruguay were present in this event of international character. Besides from Argentina were present teams from Chubut, Ushuaia, Santa Fe , Cordoba , Buenos Aires , Neuquen, Rio Negro , Formosa , Entre Rios, Catamarca, Mendoza and Misiones.
The particularity of this event is that is divide in three hours bands designed so that in the morning can participate only children in all specialties and ranks of categories, followed by the youthful ones and then the adults.
It was a prolix and dynamic event and counted with an important context of cooperation and kindness.
As part of the event was realize the international ceremony with demonstrations by the team “Los Guerreros del Sol” (Warriors of the Sun), Tae Bo by Susana Espindola, Hard Combat by Hector Nuñez and Arabic Dance by Anabe.
Also were given the prizes Martial Arts Top Ten to the schools more numerous of the event like: 1st place: Eduardo Lopez Dowling (Tae Kwon Do ITF), 2nd place: Pablo Gines (Karate – Rio Negro), 3rd place: Fernando Grzech (Tae Kwon Do), 4th place: Dario Manrique (Tae Kwon Do ITF), 5th place: Jose Luis Sosa ( Tae Kwon Do ITF), 6th place: Daniel Duarte (Tae Kwon Do), 7th place: Francisco Valencia (Kung Fu – Chile), 8th place: Jose Monte (Tae Kwon Do ITF), 9th place: Enrique Pallares (Tae Kwon Do CCN) and 10th place: Jesus Luna (Kung Fu)
And as a final act was carried out the graduation ceremony to certificate the new categories of black belts of Ham Do from 1st to the category of the 4th dan.
For one side was a numerous championship in which 102 schools participated, was a pleasant encounter with competitors from different provinces and countries, and had that aggregate of euphoria in those who were qualifying to obtain its passport to the World Championship “Argentina 2008”