Totallympics 55 Posted January 3, 2019 #1 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Karate WKF Series A 2019 Multi-Stage Event - 1 March 2019 - 22 September 2019 Official Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,770 Posted March 3, 2019 #2 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Karate1 Serie A event in Salzburg begins with record of participants A record-breaking number of karatekas is taking part this weekend in the massive 2019 Karate 1-Series A Salzburg. The opening event of the season of Karate 1-Series A started on Friday with over 2000 competitors from 99 countries clashing for gold. This tally represents a record in Karate’s first-class series of international events and showcases the tremendous popularity of the sport all over the world. The amazing number of 515 competitors were registered in the Kata categories only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,770 Posted March 3, 2019 #3 Share Posted March 3, 2019 (edited) Karate1 Serie A, Stage #1 (Salzburg, AUT) Medallists Recap women's Kata Gold: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Silver: Kiyou Shimizu Bronze: Viviana Bottaro & Dilara Eltemur women's Kumite, -50Kg Gold: Ayaka Tadano Silver: Sara Bahmanyar Bronze: Shuang Gu & Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu women's Kumite, -55Kg Gold: Taravat Khaksar Silver: Valentina Toro Meneses Bronze: Ivet Goranova & Anzhelika Terliuga women's Kumite, -61Kg Gold: Yin Xiaoyan Silver: Yuki Kujuro Bronze: Giana Lofty & Viktoria Pillarova women's Kumite, -68Kg Gold: Alisa Buchinger Silver: Elena Quirici Bronze: Johanna Kneer & Halyna Melnyk women's Kumite, +68Kg Gold: Shymaa Aboualyazed Silver: Ayaka Saito Bronze: Sofya Berultseva & Dominika Tatarova women's Team Kata Gold: Italy Silver: Australia Bronze: Portugal & Spain men's Kata Gold: Kazumasa Moto Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze: Kakeru Nishiyama & Issei Shimbaba men's Kumite, -60Kg Gold: Darkhan Assadilov Silver: Eray Samdan Bronze: Malek Salama & Kaisar Alpysbay men's Kumite, -67Kg Gold: Stefan Pokorny Silver: Ali Elsawy Bronze: Mussa Bexultan & Luca Maresca men's Kumite, -75Kg Gold: Gabor Harspataki Silver: Ahmed El Sharaby Bronze: Bahman Askari & Wei-Chun Hsu men's Kumite, -84Kg Gold: Mahdi Khodabakhshi Silver: Ugur Aktas Bronze: Aykhan Mamayev & Zabihollah Poorshab men's Kumite, +84Kg Gold: Asiman Gurbanli Silver: Saleh Abazari Bronze: Andrei Grinevich & Jonathan Horne men's Team Kata Gold: Turkey Silver: Malesia Bronze: Japan & Kuwait Edited March 3, 2019 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bestmen 2,555 Posted May 17, 2019 #4 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Series A - Istanbul 2019 is running now Iran with 157 karateka over the host turkey 127 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,770 Posted May 18, 2019 #5 Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) Karate1 Serie A, Stage #2 (Istanbul, TUR) Tomorrow's Gold Medal matches women's Kata Kiyou Shimizu vs Sandra Sanchez Jaime women's Kumite-50kg: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu vs Gu Shiau-Shuang-55kg: Wen Tzu-Yun vs Taravat Khaksar-61kg: Merve Coban vs Alexandra Grande-68kg: Irina Zaretska vs Marina Rakovic+68kg: Ayaka Saito vs Hamideh Abbasali men's Kata Emre Vefa Goktas vs Kakeru Nishiyama men's Kumite-60kg: Eray Samdan vs Yerkinbek Baitureyev-67kg: Hiroto Shinoara vs Dionysios Xenos-75kg: Bahman Askari vs Luigi Busà-84kg: Mahdi Ghararizadeh vs Ugur Aktas+84kg: Saleh Abazari vs Gogita Arkania Edited May 19, 2019 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,770 Posted May 18, 2019 #6 Share Posted May 18, 2019 awful results for Italy...probably the worst tournament in the last couple of years... and Crescenzo lost again against a Kazakh guy...and not the usual ones, today he was beaten by their 3rd tier guy! give us a psychologist...but a really good one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,148 Posted May 19, 2019 #7 Share Posted May 19, 2019 wow if we ever wanted to invade Turkey. this is probably our chance ! the number of Iranians here is probably more than the population of Istanbul I can't even find anything about most of these guys. whoever can affords a short trip to Turkey is allowed to participate. but this is stupid. half of them losing in first round is no good for the prestige of our karate . and they don't exist for our Karate federation . their news section only mention their own athletes ! (the usual names you see in other competitions. 2 per weight class) we will have 5 finalists later today, but only one of them matters in Olympic ranking, Askari-Busa in 75kg final will be interesting but our other Olympic hope Ganjzadeh lost to former Iran NT member Iman Sanchouli who is now representing Northern Ireland !? (huh ?! how the hell he found Northern Ireland ?! ) 10-15 years it was considered a very very bad thing to change nationality and face Iranian athletes in international competitions. now it's very normal . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,770 Posted May 19, 2019 #8 Share Posted May 19, 2019 (edited) Karate1 Serie A, Stage #2 (Istanbul, TUR) Medallists Recap women's Kata Gold: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Silver: Kiyou Shimizu Bronze: Grace Lau Mo Sheung & Hikaru Ono women's Kumite, -50Kg Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu Silver: Gu Shiau-Shuang Bronze: Bettina Plank & Selvanur Akkurtwomen's Kumite, -55Kg Gold: Taravat Khaksar Silver: Wen Tzu-Yun Bronze: Irina Sharykhina & Shiori Nakamura women's Kumite, -61Kg Gold: Merve Coban Silver: Alexandra Grande Bronze: Barno Mirzaeva & Anita Serogina women's Kumite, -68Kg Gold: Marina Rakovic Silver: Irina Zaretska Bronze: Elena Quirici & Kayo Someya women's Kumite, +68Kg Gold: Hamideh Abbasali Silver: Ayaka Saito Bronze: Sofya Berultseva & Chahnez Jami women's Team Kata Gold: Iran Silver: Australia Bronze: Peru & Egypt men's Kata Gold: Kakeru Nishiyama Silver: Emre Vefa Goktas Bronze: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila & Alì Sofuoglu men's Kumite, -60Kg Gold: Eray Samdan Silver: Yerkinbek Baitureyev Bronze: Alì Meskini & Sadriddin Saymatov men's Kumite, -67Kg Gold: Dionysios Xenos Silver: Hiroto Shinoara Bronze: Devid Nhuyen & Hesham Abdalla Abdelgawad men's Kumite, -75Kg Gold: Bahman Askari Silver: Luigi Busà Bronze: Mamduh Abdelaziz Abdalla & Gabor Harspataki men's Kumite, -84Kg Gold: Mahdi Gararizadeh Silver: Ugur Aktas Bronze: Ivan Kvesic & Mahdi Khodabakhshi men's Kumite, +84Kg Gold: Saleh Abazari Silver: Gogita Arkania Bronze: Alexandr Kolikov & Alparslan Yamanoglu men's Team Kata Gold: Turkey Silver: Italy Bronze: Iran & Italy Edited May 19, 2019 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juddy96 171 Posted June 23, 2019 #9 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Montreal medal matches Women's Kata Gold: Maho Ono vs. Hikaru Ono Bronze: Viviana Bottaro vs. Emiri Iwamoto Bronze: Sae Taira vs. Yui Umekage Women's Kumite -50kg Gold: Ranran Li vs. Ayaka Tadano Bronze: Haruka Shimada vs. Junna Tsukii Bronze: Bettina Plank vs. Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu Women's Kumite -55kg Gold: Sabina Zakharova vs. Jana Bitsch Bronze: Tuba Yakan vs. Wen Tzu-Yun Bronze: Brandi Robinson vs. Alesandra Hasani Women's Kumite -61kg Gold: Jovana Prekovic vs. Alexandra Grande Bronze: Xhunashi Caballero vs. Xiaoyan Yin Bronze: Mayumi Someya vs. Haya Jumaa Women's Kumite -68kg Gold: Kayo Someya vs. Silvia Semeraro Bronze: Lingling Tang vs. Kyriaki Kydonaki Bronze: Lamya Matoub vs. Li Gong Women's Kumite +68kg Gold: Clio Ferracuti vs. Johanna Kneer Bronze: Jessica Cargill vs. Hamideh Abbsali Bronze: Sofya Berultseva vs. Mengmeng Gao Men's Kata Gold: Kazumasa Moto vs. Kakeru Nishiyama Bronze: Enes Ozdemir vs. Seren Shimomura Bronze: Ali Sofuoglu vs. Issei Shimbaba Men's Kumite -60kg Gold: Darkhan Assadilov vs. Naoto Sago Bronze: Jovanni Martinez vs. Eray Samdan Bronze: Angelo Crescenzo vs. Yerkinbek Baitureyev Men's Kumite -67kg Gold: Burak Uygur vs. Yugo Kozaki Bronze: Dionysios Xenos vs. Masamichi Funahashi Bronze: Luca Maresca vs. Didar Amirali Men's Kumite -75kg Gold: Thomas Scott vs. Erman Eltemur Bronze: Lorenzo Pietromarchi vs. Bahman Asgari Ghoncheh Bronze: David Podsklan vs. Yermek Ainazarov Men's Kumite -84kg Gold: Michele Martina vs. Ugur Aktas Bronze: Robin Rettenbacher vs. Igor Chikhmarev Bronze: Bryan Lusse vs. Farouk Abdesselem Men's Kumite +84kg Gold: Alparslan Yamanoglu vs. Daniel Gaysinsky Bronze: Zvonimir Zivkovic vs. Sajad Ganjzadeh Bronze: Brian Irr vs. Simone Marino Maybe +84kg category was weak at this event but it's not often Canada is in a Karate final... even if it is on home soil. Thoughts about this event @phelps since I know this sport is one of your specialties, and North America doesn't generally host a ton of high profile Karate events... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,770 Posted June 23, 2019 #10 Share Posted June 23, 2019 in general, the participation to this tournament is not the most crowded ever in terms of top athletes (especially the Europeans, since next weekend there are the European Games Karate finals in Minsk, which have 1 men and 1 women's Olympic Quota up for grabs)... but still, in the final rounds I see a lot of big names, so it's not that the quality is that poor...maybe the tournament was lacking a bit in depth, but not in the top stars... for what I see, Gaysinsky was actually a bit lucky with the draw, but Irr and Marino are still quite good fighters (our guy was considered a great talent -world junior medallist, senior european champion at the age of 20, but at the moment he's struggling with too many injuries and can't find his shape of 2017 back)... for sure, if he was in the same pool with Yamanoglu and Ganjzadeh (2 of the very best in the world), he wouldn't be in the gold medal match... unfortunately, Serie A tournaments don't give up that many ranking points... for Italy, it was a very good tournament so far, with 3 athletes in the gold medal matches and 5 fighting for bronze...I hope that later today they can finish the job with full success... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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