Karate WKF World Championships 2023

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Keep it for movies of Hollywood,  when heros save the planet by slaping nasty invaders 

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1 hour ago, phelps said:

One GMM and one BMM for

 

but these team events are useless to me (especially Kata) 

 

I just don't feel the same enthusiasm as for the Kumite events 

Heh, amusingly if there is one karate event I'd like to see in the Olympics it would be the team kata xD

 

Kumite I couldn't care less for.

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11 hours ago, NearPup said:

Heh, amusingly if there is one karate event I'd like to see in the Olympics it would be the team kata xD

 

Kumite I couldn't care less for.

Kata* is just like watching Rhythmic Gymnastics and Artistic Swimming...it goes from boring to farcical...it's not even a sport, just entertainment...and not the kind I usually like 

 

*and it's the same for all the Martial Arts, not only in Karate

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and the  disaster continues...

 

both the women and men's teams (the boys are the reigning champions) in Kumite have already been eliminated in the early rounds (even if the men could still enter the repechage for bronze if  make it through to the GMM -currently they are playing their semifinal match vs )

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Day #4 Medal Matches

 

 

Women's Team Kumite

Gold Medal Match:  Japan vs  Spain
Bronze Medal Match #1:  Kazakhstan vs  Kosovo
Bronze Medal Match #2:  Croatia vs  Hungary

Men's Team Kumite

Gold Medal Match:  Egypt vs  Jordan
Bronze Medal Match #1:  Italy vs  Azerbaijan
Bronze Medal Match #2:  Kazakhstan vs  France

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Today's Medallists (Part I)

 

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold: Hikaru Ono
Silver: Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze #1: Paola Garcia Lozano
Bronze #2: Terryana D'Onofrio
 

 

Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold: Iryna Zaretska
Silver: Elena Quirici
Bronze #1: Alizèe Agier
Bronze #2: Georgia Zefanya Ceyco

Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold: Ayaka Saito
Silver: Maria Torres Garcia
Bronze #1: Clio Ferracuti
Bronze #2: Shaaban Okila Menna

 

 

Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg

Gold: Mamduh Abdelaziz Abdalla
Silver: Karoly Gabor Harspataki
Bronze #1: Ernest Sharafutdinov
Bronze #2: Andrii Zaplitnyi

Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold: Youssef Badawy
Silver: Mahdi Khodabakhshi
Bronze #1: Valerii Chobotar
Bronze #2: Mohammad Aljafari

Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold: Mehdi Filali
Silver: Tarek Mahmud Taha
Bronze #1: Djorde Tesanovic
Bronze #2: Sajad Ganjzadeh

 

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high drama in the men's -75kg Kumite Gold Medal match, as local hero Gabor Harspataki was 3-2 down with a few seconds left when he looked to have pulled out a miracle and found a 3-point projection that would have given him the Gold Medal

 

but unfortunately for him, the final action came just outside the time limit, when the clock already had all 0s on and therefore  Abdelaziz saved himself and won the gold medal

 

among the women, 3rd world title for  Zaretska, but tbh it was quite a robbery, given what happened in the last 15 seconds of the match, when Quirici was denied at least 2 good yuko (the scored was tied 4-4 at that moment) that would have put her ahead with very few seconds left on the clock, before Zaretska scored the final point

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Today's Medallists (Part II)

 

 

Men's Individual Kata

Gold: Alì Sofuoglu
Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila
Bronze #1: Ariel Torres Gutierrez
Bronze #2: Kakeru Nishiyama

 

 

Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg

Gold: Christos-Stefanos Xenos
Silver: Kaisar Alpysbay
Bronze #1: Angelo Crescenzo
Bronze #2: Eray Samdan

Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg

Gold: Steven Dacosta
Silver: Nenad Dulovic
Bronze #1: Didar Amirali
Bronze #2: Fahad Alkhathami

 

 

Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg

Gold: Moldir Zhangbyrbay
Silver: Erminia Perfetto
Bronze #1: Reem Ahmed Salama
Bronze #2: Yorgelis Salazar Camacho

Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg

Gold: Tuba Yakan
Silver: Ivet Goranova
Bronze #1: Barbara Perez
Bronze #2: Anzhelika Terliuga

Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg

Gold: Gong Li
Silver: Fatma Naz
Bronze #1: Laura Sivert
Bronze #2: Alì Noursin

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so, just 1 silver and 3 bronze medals (2 in Kumite) for

 

and Tomorrow's team events won't change the general perspective of this championship for us: it's the worst performance since a very, very long time

 

a true disappointment, especially by the most consolidated "names" among our Kumite specialists  

 

 

more in general, we had another match ended with high drama like in the first session of the day: the great  Steven Dacosta saved himself the gold medal exactly like Abdelaziz earlier, thanks to the final hit by  Dulovic coming a fraction of a second too late 

 

 

Tomorrow the World Championships end with the Team Events medal matches

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the Individual events are over...and  and  all have won 2 Gold medals, meanwhile the remaining 4 titles went to  and  

 

out of curiosity, if Karate was still an Olympic sport,  and  would have won an Olympic Gold, together with  or ,  or ,  or  and  or