Gold at the Taekwon Do World Championship in Germany in individual and team powerbreaking for Levin's Janae Whakarau.
Sixteen-year-old Levin Taekwon Do practitioner Janae Whakarau is the best in the world in both individual and team power breaking in her sport.
She won gold in both at the recent World Championships in Inzell, Germany, but said the idea that she's the junior number one in the world, is
"a little weird".
The World Championships are held every other year and it is something she had to trial for as part of the national team. It was her second World Championship. Last time she won two bronze and one silver.
"The play-offs were intense," she said. "It was just me and a competitor from Argentina. I came first and when the other person came on there was dead silence in the arena."
Janae was the youngest competitor in the NZ team and has been doing Taekwon Do for the past eight years.
