Karate WKF World Championships 2018

[phelps 7,678]

p.s. Aghayev won his 1st bout against a guy from GUA only at the Hantei (judges' decision) after a 0-0 score!

[AlFHg 330]

any idea of how to switch tatami on the WKF livestream? :D

[MHSN 3,623]

Askari is in the semifinal after beating Japan.by Hantei  which guarantees a medal round match for him. I hope he can go further but he was lucky in the first round. being down 1-0 against a guy from Sweden with only 3 seconds left but scored ippon and won it 3-1.

 

Rozita Alipour is also still alive after 3 wins, but the Asian Games champion Chinese girl (who beat Alipour in the final) is in her pool so I don't have high hope for her.

[MHSN 3,623]

21 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

any idea of how to switch tatami on the WKF livestream? :D

 

sorry you can't ! that's all WKF offers for the preliminary round

[MHSN 3,623]

Bahman Askari goes to the final against Luigi Busa who beat Rafael Aghayev in other semifinal

[thepharoah 2,405]

we really suck at this WCH , but not really surprising result for me 

[phelps 7,678]

it looks that today we're going better than yesterday...and finally some Kumite medals (or at least some chances for those) would eventually come...

Busà is always our superstar (he won his 1st world title in 2006 and still managed to make the final 12 years after, with many other medals -in total, 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze at the world champs and 3-2-5 at the Europeans...counting only the individual stuff- in between these 2, of course), but if the live blog is not wrong -anything else has stopped working here...but I think it's more about my internet broadband connection that's not performing as it's supposed to do- also Laura Pasqua has surprisingly won her pool and has reached the semifinals...

[DaniSRB 899]

[MHSN 3,623]

Derafshipour had couple wins on Hantei but he ran out of luck in semifinal against France. he will fight for bronze. so far 4 out of 4 made it to the medal round in men's kumite, 2 for gold ,2 for bronze. the last one is the defending World Champion Amir Mehdizadeh.

 

but the female team is really bad here. 3 out of 4 lost in the first round ! only Alipour could go to the QF where she lost to China and since China made it to the final she will be alive in repechage. still not a great chance for her.

Edited November 7, 2018 by MHSN

[MHSN 3,623]

since the official livescore is a mess, this is the list of finals so far

 

Men's 67kg: FIGUEIRA VINICIUS vs DACOSTA STEVEN

Men's 75kg: ASGARI BAHMAN vs BUSA LUIGI

Women's 61kg: YIN XIAOYAN vs PREKOVIC JOVANA