Karate WKF Premier League 2020

[phelps 8,407]

today has been one of the most successful days for Italy in the last 10 years or so...

 

Crescenzo, Maresca, cardin and the men's team Kata all reaching the gold medal match...

 

plus the youngster Brunori losing only to Cardin in the semifinal of the women's -55kg (therefore reaching the bronze medal match) and Busà leading 2-0 over Asiabari in the last repechage match (30 secs to go), which means he would also reach the bronze medal match if he wins...

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gone! Busà also makes it through to the bronze medal match...

 

definitely a day ending on a very high note for Italy...

[phelps 8,407]

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #3 (Salzburg, AUT)

 

 

Day #1 action recap...

 

 

women's Individual Kata
Gold Medal match: Sakura Kokumai vs Sandra Sanchez Jaime
Bronze Medal match #1: Lidia Rodriguez Encabo vs Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze Medal match #2: Hikaru Ono vs Jasmin Juettner

men's Team Kata
Gold Medal match: Italy vs Turkey
Bronze Medal match #1: Russia vs Spain
Bronze Medal match #2: Kuwait vs France

 

women's Individual Kumite, -50kg
Gold Medal match: Miho Miyahara vs Nadia Gomez Morales
Bronze Medal match #1: Alexandra Recchia vs Radwa Sayed
Bronze Medal match #2: Bettina Plank vs Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu

women's Individual Kumite, -55kg
Gold Medal match: Sara Cardin vs Jana Messerschmidt
Bronze Medal match #1: Wen Tzu-Yun vs Yassmin Attia
Bronze Medal match #2: Veronica Brunori vs Valeria Kumizaki

 

men's Individual Kumite, -60kg
Gold Medal match: Angelo Crescenzo vs Emil Pavlov
Bronze Medal match #1: Eray Samdan vs Evgeny Plakhutin
Bronze Medal match #2: Darkhan Assadilov vs Yerkinbek Baitureyev

men's Individual Kumite, -67kg
Gold Medal match: Luca Maresca vs Rafiz Hasanov
Bronze Medal match #1: Stefan Pokorny vs Alì Elsawy
Bronze Medal match #2: Burak Uygur vs Mussa Bexultan

men's Individual Kumite, -75kg
Gold Medal match: Bahman Askari vs Stanislav Horuna
Bronze Medal match #1: Karoly Gabor Harspataki vs Luigi Busà
Bronze Medal match #2: Erman Eltemur vs Joe Kellaway

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2nd day review

 

Men's Kata

we knew about , now Mattia Busato is also qualified which means the end of qualification in this event.

 

Men's 84kg

Ugur Aktas guaranteed an Olympic spot today, Ivan Kvesic also made sure he will be 3rd in the final ranking. he can't go up or down, it's not in his hands anymore. ironically it's better for him to lose the final to Aktas ! he needs some help from Aktas and also another Iranian Ganjzadeh at +84kg

 

Men's +84kg

3 athletes left for 2 quotas, Ganjzadeh, Horne and Arkania. none of them made it to the final and only Arkania will be in bronze medal match. Ganjzadeh will have something like 1500pts advantage over both Horne and Arkania which means he will have a good chance to finish 1st, still that won't be enough if Poursheib tops 84kg. Arkania is also closing the gap with Horne, in case Ganjzadeh qualifies, Arkania needs to beat Horne to qualify himself. complicated situation for all 5 athletes involved !

 

Women's 61kg

it was a big day for Coban and Jumaa the both made it to the final, Merve Coban is very close to qualify now. Haya Jumaa also moved up the ranking, if she wins the gold she will be next to Prekovic. but since there will be 1 more event for the Europeans, Coban and Prekovic are still big favorites for the quotas to join and . there is still slim chance for Alipour and two French girls.

 

Women's 68kg

we knew is already qualified, Gong Li and Feryal made it to the final only 100 pts separate these 2 girls, so whoever wins the gold tomorrow will be in 2nd place . that final can act like a direct Olympic qualification at the end of the day. there is still chance for Quirici (and also very slim chance for Semeraro)

 

Women's +68kg

It was a great day for Hamided Abbasali, she is not mathematically qualified yet but I can say it's 95% safe for her, she will qualify if she wins the gold tomorrow. but after her there is a close battle between Berultseva, Ferracuti, Hocaoglu and Chatziliadou. right now Berultseva is leading and she can add more points if she wins the bronze tomorrow but all other girls are European and have one more chance. Ferracuti is in the final and winning the gold will be very important for her. but still less than 400pts separate those 4 girls.

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Semeraro is throwing her chances away...hopefully Abbasali tomorrow can stop Ferracuti, otherwise she could even start a comeback that put Semeraro out of contention without she can do anything about it...

 

and frankly I think Semeraro is the only one of the 2 with a true chance to get a medal in Tokyo...

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Karate1 Premier League, Stage #3 (Salzburg, AUT)

 

 

Day #2 action recap...

 

 

men's Individual Kata
Gold Medal match: Alì Sofuoglu vs Kazumasa Moto
Bronze Medal match #1: Emre Vefa Goktas vs Enes Ozdemir
Bronze Medal match #2: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila vs Gakuji Tozaki

women's Team Kata
Gold Medal match: Spain vs Belarus
Bronze Medal match #1: Italy vs Slovakia
Bronze Medal match #2: Russia vs England

 

women's Individual Kumite, -61kg
Gold Medal match: Haya Jumaa vs Merve Coban
Bronze Medal match #1: Giana Lofty vs Joane Orbon
Bronze Medal match #2: Yin Xiaoyan vs Alana Kochieva

women's Individual Kumite, -68kg
Gold Medal match: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Gong Li
Bronze Medal match #1: Irina Zaretska vs Tan Lingling
Bronze Medal match #2: Sherilyn Wold vs Victoria Isaeva

women's Individual Kumite, +68kg
Gold Medal match: Hamideh Abbasali vs Clio Ferracuti
Bronze Medal match #1: Charlotte Grimm vs Wen Tzu-Hsuan
Bronze Medal match #2: Maria Torres Garcia vs Sofya Berultseva

 

men's Individual Kumite, -84kg
Gold Medal match: Ivan Kvesic vs Ugur Aktas
Bronze Medal match #1: Zabiollah Poorshab vs Kenji Grillon
Bronze Medal match #2: Aykhan Mamayev vs Daniyar Yuldashev

men's Individual Kumite, +84kg
Gold Medal match: Ryzvan Talibov vs Brian Irr
Bronze Medal match #1: Asiman Gurbanli vs Tarek Mahmoud Taha
Bronze Medal match #2: Gogita Arkania vs Daniel Gaysinsky

 

[Gianlu33 5,422]

What stupid lost for Crescenzo

[Andry84 106]

Incredible loss for Crescenzo at 0.2 seconds from the end, I hope for him this won't cost the qualification. Still 2 tournament to the end, 240 points thrown away, even if I am not sure the European Championships will be played. 

[MHSN 3,785]

Kvesic withdrew from the final. obviously he (or his coaches) knows the rules very well

 

 

[prso1000 728]

7 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Kvesic withdrew from the final. obviously he (or his coaches) knows the rules very well

 

 

Thank God, I was already afraid he will win

anf now please cancel both remaining tournaments or at least the Europeans ?

Edited March 1, 2020 by prso1000