Karate EKF European Championships 2018

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and finally Cardin lost a bout she had already won against the Ukranian...2-1 ahead, she was hit by a 2-point waza-ari with 7 seconds left when she should have had the full control of the match...shame on her...

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now we still have to complete the field of the men's -60kg (we are at the quarterfinal stage) and of the women's -50kg (Bettina Plank, AUT has already won the Pool B -and therefore she's the first finalist- but the Pool A is still stuck at round #1...so, there's still a long way to go for those girls)...

 

we'll have the full results from today's action later tonight...

 

by for now...

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Men's Kumite -60kg

Gold Medal Bout: Angelo Crescenzo (ITA) vs Emil Pavlov (MKD)

Bronze Medal Bouts: Johan Lopes (FRA) vs Evgeny Plakhutin (RUS) & Dominik Imrich (SVK) vs Kalvis Kalnins (LAT)

 

Women's Kumite -50kg

Gold Medal Bout: Bettina Plank (AUT) vs Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu (TUR)

Bronze Medal Bouts: Mariya Koulinkovitch (BLR) vs Nurana Aliyeva (AZE) & Alexandra Pop (ROU) vs Alexandra Recchia (FRA)

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So, here's the final recap of today's action...

 

we have 7 Countries with 2 or more athletes in the Gold Medal Bouts (TUR, AZE and ITA 3, CRO, FRA, ESP and UKR 2 each)...

other 7 instead only have 1 finalist (AUT, BIH, GRE, HUN, MKD, SRB and SUI)...

finally, 14 Nations have 1 or more athletes qualified for the Bronze Medal bouts...

In total, we have 28 Countries still hoping to end up in the final medal table (14 of them being sure of getting at least 1 medal)...

 

for Italy, it's been a decent but not exceptional day...we still have 3 finalists and 5 other people in the Bronze Medal bouts, but the expectations were definitely higher, especially our stars Busà and Cardin missed out badly their goal (which was obviously to win another European Gold)...and the fact that they got so close is not a consolation...actually, it's the opposite...it just adds more and more regrets...

Edited May 10, 2018 by phelps

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day #2 already well underway in Novi Sad...

 

Men's Team Kata

Gold Medal Bout: Russia vs Spain

Bronze Medal Bouts: Italy vs Montenegro & Azerbaijan vs Turkey

 

Women's Team Kata

Gold Medal Bout: Italy vs Spain

Bronze Medal Bouts: Germany vs Turkey & Russia vs France

 

 

Shame on the male trio...they've been able to lose against the Russians...I can't believe it!

on the other hand, Spain is basically unbeatable in Europe in this discipline, both individually and as a team...

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quick update on the Kumite Team Events...

 

Men's Team Kumite

Semifinals

Spain vs Portugal

Azerbaijan vs Turkey

 

Women's Team Kumite

Semifinals

Winner of the Bout (ENG vs ITA) vs Winner of the Bout resulting from the matches (GRE vs SLO) vs (SRB vs TUR)

Bulgaria vs Winner of the Bout (SUI vs SVK)

 

 

for the definitive results from today's action we have to wait until very late this afternoon/early evening...

Edited May 11, 2018 by phelps

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in both tournaments we had 2 very unbalanced halves of the table draw...a quite a few surprises, too...

both these things will probably lead to a pair of one-sided finals, with the best of the show already gone in the early rounds of the tournaments (which nobody, apart from the people in the stands of the arena, can watch )...

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final update for Today...

 

Men's Team Kumite

Gold Medal Bout: Spain vs Turkey

Bronze Medal Bouts: Portugal vs Ukraine & Azerbaijan vs Serbia

 

Women's Team Kumite

Gold Medal Bout: Italy vs Switzerland

Bronze Medal Bouts: Turkey vs France & Bulgaria vs Croazia

Edited May 11, 2018 by phelps

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Bronze medal for Semerano, great start for Italy!

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Individual Kumite Final Results

 

Men's +84kg
Gold: Ivan Klepic (BIH)
Silver: Shahin Atamov (AZE)
Bronze: Tyron-Darnell Lardy (NED) & Gogita Arkania (GEO)

 

Men's -84kg
Gold: Michele Martina (ITA)
Silver: Ivan Kvesic (CRO)
Bronze: Helio Hernandez (POR) & Ugur Aktas (TUR)

 

Men's -75kg
Gold: Rafael Aghayev (AZE)
Silver: Gabor Harspataki (HUN)
Bronze: Stanislav Horuna (UKR) & Luigi Busà (ITA)

 

Men's -67kg
Gold: Burak Uygur (TUR)
Silver: Stefan Joksic (SRB)
Bronze: Stefan Pokorny (AUT) & Yves Martial Tadissi (HUN)

 

Men's -60kg
Gold: Emil Pavlov (MKD)
Silver: Angelo Crescenzo (ITA)
Bronze: Evgeny Plakhutin (RUS) & Kalvins Kalnins (LAT)

 

Women's +68kg
Gold: Anne Laure Florentin (FRA)
Silver: Eleni Chatziliadou (GRE)
Bronze: Laura Palacio Gonzalez (ESP) & Ana Marija Celan Bujas (CRO)

 

Women's -68kg
Gold: Elena Quirici (SUI)
Silver: Irina Zaretska (AZE)
Bronze: Silvia Semeraro (ITA) & Ivona Cavar (BIH)

 

Women's -61kg
Gold: Lucie Ignace (FRA)
Silver: Anita Serogina (UKR)
Bronze: Merve Coban (TUR) & Tjasa Ristic (SLO)

 

Women's -55kg
Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga (UKR)
Silver: Alesandra Hasani (CRO)
Bronze: Sara Cardin (ITA) & Tuba Yakan (TUR)

 

Women's -50kg
Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu (TUR)
Silver: Bettina Plank (AUT)
Bronze: Nurana Aliyeva (AZE) & Alexandra Recchia (FRA)

Edited May 12, 2018 by phelps