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Women's Combined Ranking after Boulder 1st, Sa Sol, 2.00 Pts 2nd, Janja Garnbret, 5.00 Pts 3rd, Jessica Pilz, 12.00 Pts 4th, Petra Klinger, 15.00 Pts 5th, Miho Nonaka, 16.00 Pts 6th, Akiyo Noguchi, 18.00 Pts

Women's Combined Speed Results 1st, Sa Sol 2nd, Jessica Pilz 3rd, Petra Klinger 4th, Miho Nonaka 5th, Janja Garnbret 6th, Akiyo Noguchi

Finally, some results gone according to the most reasonable preview in the last events of the championships, with USA and GER taking the women and men's Eight respectively... this is the recap of today's action: http://www.worldrowing.com/news/borch-and-puspure-impress-finals-world-rowing-championships and this is the final overall medal table: http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2018-world-rowing-championships/medals meanwhile this is the medal table referred to the Olympic Boats only: USA, 2 / 1 / 1 IRL, 2 / 0 / 0 AUS, 1 / 3 / 1 ITA, 1 / 2 / 0 CAN, 1 / 1 / 0 GER, 1 / 1 / 0 ROU, 1 / 1 / 0 FRA, 1 / 0 / 1 LTU, 1 / 0 / 1 CRO, 1 / 0 / 0 NOR, 1 / 0 / 0 POL, 1 / 0 / 0 NZL, 0 / 2 / 1 SUI, 0 / 2 / 0 CZE, 0 / 1 / 0 GBR, 0 / 0 / 2 NED, 0 / 0 / 2 AUT, 0 / 0 / 1 BEL, 0 / 0 / 1 RUS, 0 / 0 / 1 ESP, 0 / 0 / 1 UKR, 0 / 0 / 1

and France get the Gold medal in the men's double sculls...New Zealand beaten also by Switzerland for Silver and Bronze... luckily, I didn't take part in the prediction contest...I wouldn't have got a single gold medallist from today's action so far...

sure I am...and I also saw your success (at least for now) at the WEG... earlier we had the Hockey girls doing some magic... well, it looks quite a good period for Irish Oympic sport...

yeah, I know that many Italian coaches are doing the fortune of many foreign teams (and not only in Rowing)... I don't know if I have to be proud of that or if I have to be sad about all these resources gone away from our sport system...

OMG!!!!! Ireland on fire!!! another Gold medal for them! Puspure destroyed the (former) world champion, Jeannine Gmelin! Bronze for Austria with Magdalena Lobnig, but once again well behind the top 2...

first Olympic Boat race of the day and 1st upset... Kjetil Borch surprises Ondrej Synek in the men's single sculls... he just dominated the final from start to finish...wow! Bronze went to Griskonis, but well behind the first 2 and never really in contention for the top places...

Karate 1 Premier League Stage #6 (Berlin, GER) Medal Matches Results Women's Kata Gold Medal Match: Kiyou Shimizu b. Sandra Sanchez Jaime Bronze Medal Match #1: Emiri Iwamoto b. Natsuki Shimizu Bronze Medal Match #2: Viviana Bottaro b. Mirisa Ohuchi Men's Kata Gold Medal Match: Ryo Kiyuna vs Issei Shimbaba Bronze Medal Match #1: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila b. Kazumasa Moto Bronze Medal Match #2: Alì Sofuoglu b. Yuta Hibi Women's Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal Match: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu b. Ayaka Tadano Bronze Medal Match #1: Radwa Sayed b. Shara Hubrich Bronze Medal Match #2: Kinatsu Endo b. Alexandra Recchia Women's Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal Match: Anzhelika Terliuga b. Li Lirisman Bronze Medal Match #1: Jenna Brown b. Yassmin Attia Bronze Medal Match #2: Sara Cardin b. Carlota Fernandez Osorio Women's Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal Match: Alexandra Grande* b. Leila Heurtault Bronze Medal Match #1: Haya Jumaa b. Giana Lofty Bronze Medal Match #2: Gwendoline Philippe b. Ayamai Moriguchi Women's Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal Match: Eda Eltemur b. Irina Zaretska Bronze Medal Match #1: Silvia Semeraro b. Miroslava Kopunova Bronze Medal Match #2: Kayo Someya b. Elena Quirici Women's Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal Match: Ayumi Uekusa b. Clio Ferracuti Bronze Medal Match #1: Ayaka Saito b. Shymaa Abouelyazed Bronze Medal Match #2: Laura Palacio Gonzalez b. Meltem Hocaoglu Men's Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal Match: Angelo Crescenzo b. Yugo Kozaki Bronze Medal Match #1: Firdovsi Farzaliyev b. Kaisar Alpysbay Bronze Medal Match #2: Amir Mehdizadeh b. Darkhan Assadilov Men's Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal Match: Luca Maresca b. Vinicius Figueira Bronze Medal Match #1: Hiroto Shinoara b. Dionysios Xenos Bronze Medal Match #2: Steven Da Costa b. Jordan Thomas Men's Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal Match: Yusei Sakiyama b. Rafael Aghayev Bronze Medal Match #1: Ken Nishimura b. Noah Bitsch Bronze Medal Match #2: Scott Thomas b. Erman Eltemur Men's Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal Match: Ryutaro Araga b. Daniyar Yuldashev Bronze Medal Match #1: Zabiollah Poorshab b. Ugur Aktas Bronze Medal Match #2: Timothy Petersen b. Jessie Da Costa Men's Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal Match: Sajad Ganizadeh vs Gogita Arkania Bronze Medal Match #1: Andjelo Kvesic b. Herolind Nishevci Bronze Medal Match #2: Jonathan Horne b. Shahin Atamov *= actually starting under the WKF Flag (I don't know what kind of troubles Peru have with the International Federation to not be able to show up with their own Flag )...

starting in a minute, all Bronze Medal matches... and later Today @ 2.30 p.m. CET, all the Gold Medal matches... Live here:

sorry, mate! it didn't go the right way (your right way, at least)...

confirmed, as well... those 6 guys are set to battle the medals out this afternoon...

please, be serious!

The Junior European Championships 2018 were held this week in Sofia (BUL)... here you can find the full recap of the individual results and the final medal table: http://www.ippon.org/ec_jun2018.php the team event is scheduled for tomorrow... p.s. quite a busy week for Bulgaria...Judo Junior Europeans, Rhythmic Gymnastics Worlds, Rowing Worlds and Volleyball Worlds all at the same time in the Country... congrats for hosting so many events...

why Italy is always such a disaster? why???

hey, man! this is the "world cup" of Karate...there are prizes up for grab... it's not only about qualifying for the Olympic Games... actually, every K1PL tournament is only open to the best 50 players in the world in each class... with your idea, the Japanese guys shouldn't even take part into the world championships...

2 more Italians in the medal matches...good...even if the women's -68 and +68kg classes could lead to some troubles within our team, since Semeraro should be the girl representing ITA in the Olympic Heavyweights and not Ferracuti (and today's results don't go in this direction)... also in the men's -60 and -67 it's a shame that we're gonna have to choose only one between Maresca and Crescenzo...they are both potential medallists... I really think that the Olympic format they've chosen sucks...and sucks big time...

Karate 1 Premier League Stage #6 (Berlin, GER) Day #2 action... Men's Kata Gold Medal Match: Issei Shimbaba vs Ryo Kiyuna Bronze Medal Match #1: Kazumasa Moto vs Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze Medal Match #2: Yuta Hibi vs Alì Sofuoglu Men's Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal Match: Ryutaro Araga vs Daniyar Yuldashev Bronze Medal Match #1: Ugur Aktas vs Zabiollah Poorshab Bronze Medal Match #2: Timothy Petersen vs Jessie Da Costa Men's Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal Match: Sajad Ganizadeh vs Gogita Arkania Bronze Medal Match #1: Herolind Nishevci vs Andjelo Kvesic Bronze Medal Match #2: Shahin Atamov vs Jonathan Horne Women's Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal Match: Alexandra Grande vs Leila Heurtault Bronze Medal Match #1: Haya Jumaa vs Giana Lofty Bronze Medal Match #2: Ayamai Moriguchi vs Gwendoline Philippe Women's Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal Match: Eda Eltemur vs Irina Zaretska Bronze Medal Match #1: Miroslava Kopunova vs Silvia Semeraro Bronze Medal Match #2: Kayo Someya vs Elena Quirici Women's Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal Match: Ayumi Uekusa vs Clio Ferracuti Bronze Medal Match #1: Shymaa Abouelyazed vs Ayaka Saito Bronze Medal Match #2: Meltem Hocaoglu vs Laura Palacio Gonzalez

and the 6 men qualified to the Final of the Combined Event should be: Kai Harada Tomoa Narasaki Jakob Schubert Kokoro Fujii Adam Ondra Jan Hojer but, once again, don't take this ranking for granted...we must wait for official confirmation...

Men's Boulder Gold: Kai Harada Silver: Chon Jong Won Bronze: Gregor Vezonik Full Competition Results here: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition#!comp=1564&cat=6&route=-1

each Continent has 1 quota place up for grab at the 2019 Continental Championships...so, yes, in Tokyo there will be at least 1 African climber... in the qualification thread you can find the entire qualification procedure...

at least today they've built a reasonable route and we're looking at a great competition...because yesterday it was really sad, tbh...

and today we can't say that we have watched a poor session or that we didn't have any major surprise... this afternoon finally it's been a geat show with many upsets, starting with the elimination of Jernej Kruder, Adam Ondra, Aleksei Rubtsov, Jan Hojer and Mickael Mawem...all of them true medal candidates and all of them destroyed by the really inspired Asian climbers... let's see what the technical commission is gonna do with the final's route...hoping that they won't build anything crazy, which would end up ruin the show (like they did yesterday with the girls and in the men's Lead final)...

Men's Boulder, climbers qualified to the Final Kokoro Fujii Chon Jong Won Gregor Vezonik Kai Harada Keita Watabe Nathan Phillips Full Results of the Semifinals: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition#!comp=1564&cat=6&route=2

p.s. the men's boulder semis have just been completed...and it was a great session* (this afternoon we could have got drunk big time if we renovated yesterday's night bet )... *I'm not writing anything more than that...I just don't want to make any spoiler to those who might want to watch it later...