Caitlyn Lam competed provincially, nationally and internationally in karate while attending Burnaby North. At one nationals she won gold in two divisions. Lam also represented Canada at two international junior events.

Natasha Lam
Sport – Karate
School – Burnaby North

Isabel Chan
Sport – Karate
School – Burnaby North

Haarpreet Sidhu
Sport – Karate
School – Burnaby Central

Since he opened his Burnaby Karate Academy in 1999, Sandeep Gill has become one of the sport’s elite coaches in Canada.
He was a provincial team coach for four years. Gill was named the Karate BC high performance coach of the year in 2008 and 2009, and then national coach of the year in 2010.

His students have participated in world junior championships, karate world cups, the Pan American Games, Pan American karate championships and a Commonwealth championship.

According to the academy. under Gill it has won more medals at national championships than any other club in British Columbia with 86 gold medals and more than 150 silver and bronze medals as of 2021. In 2018, for example, it claimed 11 individual titles which was four more than Alberta, the fourthplace province.

James Johnson is a Karate B.C. past president and World Karate Federation executive committee member. Johnson represented Canada in three world championships and was the first person to win four national senior men’s open titles, including one in 1983 when he was 39 years old.

He is a nationally carded referee and played a key role in women’s inclusion in kumite, or sparring. Johnson was inducted into the National Karate Association Hall of Fame in 1991 and was first honoured for his outstanding contribution to the sport in Canada in ’88.

He founded the Burnaby Karate Club at Cameron centre in 1981 and has been its chief instructor since.

Norma Foster is the first women in world to receive international judging status for world class karate competitions; began karate career in Scotland; was first woman to achieve her JKA Black Belt; won 1984 Canadian women’s championship in kata and kumite; a true pioneer in her field of bringing women forward in her sport.

For further information on the Karate program you can contact Norma by email: nfoster@egate.net