Karate WKF World Championships 2018

[MHSN 3,822]

Poursheib just beat the host Karateka in his opening match, next match will be interesting against USA, but that American guy Kamran Madani is actually Iranian  

 

considering the Olympic qualification, Poursheib is in the same weight as Ganjzadeh , so I care less about Olympics qualification for him. for him only winning a world medal matters.

 

but there is an Israeli guy not far from Poursheib. hope someone takes care of him soon.

[heywoodu 16,468]

 

@hckosice 

 

[prso1000 747]

One Kvesic in the final 

[heywoodu 16,468]

That sportdata website is so ridiculously slow  

 

An athlete's profile like this takes forever to load (and it's not even a good one, it doesn't even show their birth date for example  )

http://setopen.sportdata.org/wkfranking/ranking_main_competitor.php?ranking_country=COL&ranking_competitor=&ranking_competitor_name=SINISTERRA SINISTERRA CARLOS ALBERTO

[phelps 8,766]

2 ore fa, MHSN ha scritto:

Poursheib just beat the host Karateka in his opening match, next match will be interesting against USA, but that American guy Kamran Madani is actually Iranian  

 

considering the Olympic qualification, Poursheib is in the same weight as Ganjzadeh , so I care less about Olympics qualification for him. for him only winning a world medal matters.

 

but there is an Israeli guy not far from Poursheib. hope someone takes care of him soon.

 

actually it was Chobotar (UKR) who took care of Poorshab...

but as he went on winning and he's through to the Gold Medal match, Poorshab will have a chance to win a consolation Bronze...

[heywoodu 16,468]

Great, day 1, all 6 Dutch athletes out basically immediately, including Tyron Lardy, ranked 6th in the world and Timothy Petersen, who won European bronze last year and now lost against a Colombian who's 300th or something  (although to be fair, Petersen injured his foot last month and only barely made the world champs)

[phelps 8,766]

and the disaster for Italy is now complete...also Silvia Semeraro (women's -68kg) is out in an early round after losing to an unknown Norwegian...

 

in just an afternoon we probably have already compromised our chances to qualify an athelte to both the heavyweight classes in Tokyo...these championships are already highly disappointing, even if tomorrow we put 4 people in the gold medal matches (which won't happen, in any case)...

 

when it really matters, Italy fail...that's obvious...

[phelps 8,766]

1 minuto fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

Great, day 1, all 6 Dutch athletes out basically immediately, including Tyron Lardy, ranked 6th in the world and Timothy Petersen, who won European bronze last year and now lost against a Colombian who's 300th or something  (although to be fair, Petersen injured his foot last month and only barely made the world champs)

 

that's Karate...actually, that's Kumite...on a given day, anything can happen...

p.s. rankings are not so important, as many Countries don't take part in most of the tournaments throughout the season and show up only at the global events...

[MHSN 3,822]

so at the end of the day, Ganjzadeh in the final against Germany and Poursheib will fight for bronze vs Kazakhstan. I was expecting more but this is kumite, nothing is guaranteed. I hope both can repeat their 2016 medals (gold for Ganjz and bronze for Poursheib)

 

but what a disastrous day for Iranian girls. both lost in the 1st round. Zangeneh lost to Cuba !

[phelps 8,766]

Today's action recap...

 

 

Men's Individual Kata

Gold Medal Match: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila vs Ryo Kiyuna 

Bronze Medal Match #1: Antonio Diaz vs Alì Sofuoglu

Bronze Medal Match #2: Ilja Smorguner vs Mattia Busato

 

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold Medal Match: Sandra Sanchez Jaime vs Kiyou Shimizu

Bronze Medal Match #1: Grace Lau Mo Sheung vs Maria Dimitrova

Bronze Medal Match #2: Viviana Bottaro vs Alexandra Feracci

 

 

Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold Medal Match: Jonathan Horne vs Sajad Ganjzadeh

Bronze Medal Match #1: Babacar Seck Sakho vs Filipe Reis

Bronze Medal Match #2: Alexander Pshenitsyn vs Alparslan Yamanoglu

 

 

Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold Medal Match: Eleni Chatziliadou vs Ayumi Uekusa

Bronze Medal Match #1: Shymaa Abouel Yazed vs Ramona Bruederlin

Bronze Medal Match #2: Anne Laure Florentin vs Hana Antunovic

 

 

Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold Medal Match: Valerii Chobotar vs Ivan Kvesic

Bronze Medal Match #1: Daniyar Yuldashev vs Zabiollah Poorshab

Bronze Medal Match #2: Ugur Aktas vs Anton Isakau

 

 

Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold Medal Match: Victoria Isaeva vs Irina Zaretska

Bronze Medal Match #1: Maryia Aliakseyeva vs Lamya Matoub

Bronze Medal Match #2: Halyna Melnyk vs Miroslava Kopunova

Edited November 6, 2018 by phelps