City of Guatemala, February 8th, (11:30 p.m.) PJU Press Commission. A well organized championship, with a good competition level, though with the participation of many young athletes with a very short trajectory in judo who in spite of that showed a significant development in all the judo competitions in this Central American Juvenile Judo Championship conducted in this city of Guatemala.

Once the competitions ended, the PJU ID’s which allow the bearer as PJU a full active member, were symbolically handed in. PJU ID’s allows the owner to participate in any PJU activity and official event for the year 2003 and this consequently  fulfills the Resolution 01-2002 approved by the PJU Congress.

Competitors, referees, delegates and coaches completed the process of accreditation which was carried out without any inconvenient. The Panamerican Judo Union made a symbolic representation of the delivery of the accreditation cards by selecting at random an athlete, a coach and a referee from the participation crew.

The process of Dan Grades Homologation was carried out in the same way, fulfilling the Process of Dan Grade Certification, approved by the PJU Congress in its Resolution No. 02 –2002. It was here when Prof. Heli Cabeiro received his Diploma and card, which accredit him as Eighth DAN in Judo, by the Executive Committee of the Panamerican Judo Union through its Education and Coaching Direction and with the due support of the National Judo Federation of Guatemala

From this web site, our salutation to Prof. Heli Cabeiro, for this fair recognition that the PJU is giving to someone who, according to many (friends and strangers), has been the artificer of Central Judo, Congratulations Prof. Cabeiro!!!

Once the competition was over, the presidents of the National Federations from Central America attended the invitation made by the executive Committee of the PJU for dinner in a very elegant and well known restaurant in the Guatemalan Capital, where they all shared a nice and warm moment of camaraderie. It was a pleasant night where everybody, like a united family, shared a big toast: To our sport, its development and the repercussion it is having in Central America