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Disaster, absolute disaster for Italy...:redcard::spank:

 

this is the first time since the opening stage of the 2017 season that Italy do not appear at all in the medal table of a Karate Global competition...:yikes::facepalm::wall:

 

very encouraging in the Olympic perspective...:whistle::rofl::facepalm::zip:

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after the "Summer break", K1PL is back...

 

and with the most prestigious tournaments of them all, the Japan Open, which is going to be held at the famous Nippon Budokan, venue that recently hosted the Judo World Championships and that next year is going to be the center stage for both Judo and Karate at the Tokyo Olympics...

 

 

Magnificent Nippon Budokan ready to host anticipated Karate 1-Premier League Tokyo

 

 

With nearly 320 days to the historic debut of Karate in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Nippon Budokan sports hall is ready to host the Karate 1-Premier League Tokyo this weekend.

 

The fifth stop of Karate’s biggest international events will be held in the same venue of the Karate competition at the Olympic Games thus anticipation is running high among karatekas all over the world. 

 

The Karate 1-Premier League Tokyo is scheduled to start on Friday, September 6.

 

The elimination rounds will be held on Friday and Saturday, and the medal bouts will take place on Sunday.

 

The last day of competition will be available to a worldwide viewing audience on karateworld.tv and on many TV networks around the world.

 

Nearly 700 competitors from 79 countries are registered to participate in the event.

 

As the Karate 1-Premier League Tokyo will be the last international event to be held in Tokyo before the Olympic debut of the sport, the karate world is thrilled to watch the best karatekas in the world competing in Nippon Budokan this weekend.

 

All the current World champions and all the defending Grand Winners will fight for the gold medals this weekend thus guaranteeing the outstanding level of competition at the 2019 Karate 1-Premier League Tokyo. 

 

In addition to the Karate 1-Premier League Tokyo, the weekend will be memorable for Karate as the Tokyo 2020 Test Event “Ready, Set, Tokyo” is taking place in Nippon Budokan on September 9th. 

 

 

 

 

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Today's action in Tokyo...

 

 

women's Individual Kata
Gold Medal match: :ESP Sandra Sanchez Jaime vs :JPN Kiyou Shimizu
Bronze Medal match #1: :JPN Emiri Iwamoto vs :JPN Maho Ono
Bronze Medal match #2: :JPN Hikaru Ono vs :ITA Viviana Bottaro


women's Individual Kumite, -50kg
Gold Medal match: :FRA Alexandra Recchia vs :IRI Sara Bahmanyar
Bronze Medal match #1: :TPE Gu Shiau-Shuang vs :CHN Li Ranran
Bronze Medal match #2: :TPE Ku Tsui-Ping vs :JPN Ayaka Tadano


women's Individual Kumite, -55kg
Gold Medal match: :TPE Wen Tzu-Yun vs :UKR Anzhelika Terliuga
Bronze Medal match #1: :ESP Carlota Fernandez Osorio vs :CRO Alessandra Hasani
Bronze Medal match #2: :LUX Jennifer Warling vs :JPN Shiori Nakamura


men's Individual Kumite, -60kg
Gold Medal match: :ITA Angelo Crescenzo vs :KAZ Darkhan Assadilov
Bronze Medal match #1: :TUR Eray Samdan vs :MNE Nenad Dulovic
Bronze Medal match #2: :IRI Majid Hassannia vs :ESP Alejandro Ortiz Fernandez


men's Individual Kumite, -67kg
Gold Medal match: :JPN Hiroto Gomyo vs :TUR Burak Uygur
Bronze Medal match #1: :GRE Dionysios Xenos vs :BRA Vinicius Figueira
Bronze Medal match #2: :JPN Soichiro Nakano vs :JPN Yugo Kozaki


men's Individual Kumite, -75kg
Gold Medal match: :JPN Ken Nishimura vs :AZE Rafael Aghayev
Bronze Medal match #1: :IRI Bahman Askari vs :GER Noah Bitsch
Bronze Medal match #2: :UKR Stanislav Horuna vs :MAR Yassine Sekouri

 

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contrasting results for Italy...

 

on the positive side, Angelo Crescenzo did a great job to make it through to the big final (where he's going to face his bête noir Assadilov...let's see if once in his lifetime can beat the Kazakh fighter), especially because in the semifinal bout he won against his direct rival for the last direct Olympic spot via OQR, Eray Samdan...

 

on the negative side, Luigi Busà lost once again against the no.2 Iranian, Ali Asiabari (judging from the score, this time it must have been quite an explosive and entertaining match, it ended 6-6 after the 3 mins of regulation) and therefore he's out and can't defend his title in this K1PL stage (last year he dominated the field at the Tokyo Budokan)...

 

not a great day also for Luca Maresca, who lost a close match against Figueira in the early rounds and so he has no chance to get a remarkable final placing...

 

finally, Sara Cardin ended up in 7th place, losing first to her longtime arch-rival Terliuga and then also to the Japanese Shiori Nishimura in the last round of repechage before making it through to the Bronze medal match...the jury is still out, but I think she could and should have done better...at least beating the Japanese girl in the repechage match...

in any case, it's also a positive thing to see her back and fully healthy...and since she has no reasonable chance to get an Olympic spot through the OQR, it's not that painful to see her 7th rather than 5th or 3rd (winning a Gold medal would be another story, however)...the important thing is to have her in top shape at the final qualification tournament in Paris next May...

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Action from Day #2 in Tokyo...

 

 

men's Individual Kata
Gold Medal match: :JPN Ryo Kiyuna vs :JPN Issei Shimbaba
Bronze Medal match #1: :JPN Arata Kinjo vs :ESP Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila
Bronze Medal match #2: :JPN Chikashi Hayashida vs :JPN Kazumasa Moto


women's Individual Kumite, -61kg
Gold Medal match: :FRA Leila Heurtault vs :EGY Giana Lofty
Bronze Medal match #1: :JPN Mayumi Someya vs :SVK Ingrida Suchankova
Bronze Medal match #2: :CHN Yin Xiaoyan vs :JPN Maya Suzuki


women's Individual Kumite, -68kg
Gold Medal match: :AZE Irina Zaretska vs :FRA Alizèe Agier
Bronze Medal match #1: :AUT Alisa Buchiger vs :GRE Kyriaki Kydonaki
Bronze Medal match #2: :CHN Gong Li vs :ITA Silvia Semeraro


women's Individual Kumite, +68kg
Gold Medal match: :ITA Clio Ferracuti vs :JPN Ayumi Uekusa
Bronze Medal match #1: :FIN Titta Keinanen vs :USA Maya Wasowicz
Bronze Medal match #2: :GRE Eleni Chatziliadou vs :FRA Nancy Garcia


men's Individual Kumite, -84kg
Gold Medal match: :IRI Zabiollah Poorshab vs :JPN Ryutaro Araga
Bronze Medal match #1: :CRO Ivan Kvesic vs :BLR Anton Isakau
Bronze Medal match #2: :AZE Aykhan Mamayev vs :KAZ Igor Chikhmarev


men's Individual Kumite, +84kg
Gold Medal match: :IRI Saleh Abazari vs :GER Jonathan Horne
Bronze Medal match #1: :IRI Sajad Ganjzadeh vs :FRA Mehdi Filali
Bronze Medal match #2: :GEO Gogita Arkania vs :JPN Daiki Ando

 

 

 

women's Team Kata
Gold Medal match: :JPN Kenshinkan Japan vs :JPN Keio University
Bronze Medal match #1: :JPN Yamanashi Gakuin University A vs :JPN Yakumo Gakuen
Bronze Medal match #2: :MAS Malaysia vs :VIE Vietnam


men's Team Kata
Gold Medal match: :JPN Naniwa High School vs :JPN Ryueiryu
Bronze Medal match #1: :JPN Osaka Gakuei vs :TUR Turkey
Bronze Medal match #2: :JPN Yamanashi Gakuin University A vs :JPN Teikyo Japan

 

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very good (and unexpected) performance by Clio Ferracuti in the women's +68kg...she's been able to take advantage of a good draw and made it through to the big final...chapeau! :hatoff:

 

good, but not good enough, instead, Silvia Semeraro's day...she's going to be in the Bronze Medal match, but the problem is that she lost against the French girl (Agier) a direct match up for the high places in the OQR, which means that the French is going to gain points on her...

and also Zaretska is in the big final...

basically, only Quirici will sum up less points than Semeraro this week, but she has such a big advantage over the Italian in the standings that she's not the girl she has to run against...

she does definitely need to win at least 1 or 2 big tournaments in this final part of the year and make sure her direct opponents lose some points, as relying only on the repechage spot through the Continental Games she has in the bag could be dangerous and illusive at the end of the OQP...

 

among the boys, meaningless apprearance by Simone Marino in the superheavyweights and good (7th place in the end), but not good enough outing for Michele Martina in the -84kg, losing first the pool final against Araga and then the last repechage match before making it to the bronze medal match against Chikhmarev...once again a Kazakh guy stopping one of ours (we definitely have a problem when facing Iranians and Kazakhs)...:nopompom:

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After some good results in the past tournaments, this Japan K1 turned out to be disappointing for our Olympic chances. at first look it's OK we have 3 in the final and few more for the bronze but in fact none of them are our Olympic candidates :facepalm:

 

Ganjzadeh and Askari both should fight for the bronze, Ganjzadeh lost to another Iranian :facepalm:  but the biggest disappointment was for the women's side, we had 3 in race for the Olympic quota and none of them made it to the medal round. we are back to the square one when only 2 quotas were possible.

 

btw it will be a tough battle for Iran's +75kg spot. Ganjzadeh is currently second but Poursheib and Abazari are right next to him and they are both in the final here in Tokyo. which makes me think what if Iran has someone in top 2 in both 84kg and +84kg ranking ? it will be up to Iran to decide ? or the Karateka with highest points will qualify. that's important for other countries as well.

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52 minutes ago, MHSN said:

After some good results in the past tournaments, this Japan K1 turned out to be disappointing for our Olympic chances. at first look it's OK we have 3 in the final and few more for the bronze but in fact none of them are our Olympic candidates :facepalm:

 

Ganjzadeh and Askari both should fight for the bronze, Ganjzadeh lost to another Iranian :facepalm:  but the biggest disappointment was for the women's side, we had 3 in race for the Olympic quota and none of them made it to the medal round. we are back to the square one when only 2 quotas were possible.

 

btw it will be a tough battle for Iran's +75kg spot. Ganjzadeh is currently second but Poursheib and Abazari are right next to him and they are both in the final here in Tokyo. which makes me think what if Iran has someone in top 2 in both 84kg and +84kg ranking ? it will be up to Iran to decide ? or the Karateka with highest points will qualify. that's important for other countries as well.

 

the rules say it's about the ranking points...but if both are above all the rest of the field, it might well be that the Iran's NF can somehow (unofficially) decide who's going to tokyo by withdrawing the one they want to stop by the end of the OQP (for instance, saying he's unable to attend the Games because he has a long term injury)...

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the rules say it's about the ranking points...but if both are above all the rest of the field, it might well be that the Iran's NF can somehow (unofficially) decide who's going to tokyo by withdrawing the one they want to stop by the end of the OQP (for instance, saying he's unable to attend the Games because he has a long term injury)...

 

I read the rules for 1000th times. it doesn't say anything about what if a country has more than one athlete inside the qualification zone ! it's all about re-allocation. that's OK if they are both from the same weight. (one can withdraw, so we can send the next one) but if one of them is from 84kg and one from +84kg. the next guy in the ranking is actually different. (and from different countries)

 

Ganjzadeh and Poursheib are close friends but this is 1 chance for lifetime to be at the Olympics. none of them will give up that easily. if we can't have our own trials to determine the best. I think our coach (who is a nice person) also prefers the ranking solves the problem for him, then he can tell the other guy. "sorry bro, I wanted to send you but that's WKF's rule, I can't do anything about it :d"

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Just now, MHSN said:

 

I read the rules for 1000th times. it doesn't say anything about what if a country has more than one athlete inside the qualification zone ! it's all about re-allocation. that's OK if they are both from the same weight. (one can withdraw, so we can send the next one) but if one of them is from 84kg and one from +84kg. the next guy in the ranking is actually different. (and from different countries)

 

Ganjzadeh and Poursheib are close friends but this is 1 chance for lifetime to be at the Olympics. none of them will give up that easily. if we can't have our own trials to determine the best. I think our coach (who is a nice person) also prefers the ranking solves the problem for him, then he can tell the other guy. "sorry bro, I wanted to send you but that's WKF's rule, I can't do anything about it :d"

 

I can understand that point of view...probably, I'd also wash my hands with that kind of an excusation, if I had to take this kind of decision...;)

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