TEAM SLOVAKIA
Men
Matej Poliak (-66kg)
Filip Štancel (-81kg)
Milan Randl (-90kg)
Peter Žilka (-90kg)
Márius Fízeľ (-100kg)
Only 5 mens will travel to Tokyo for the WCh this year, logical, Japan is not very close, anyway it´s the most important event in the Olympic qualifying cycle, so everything is focused mainly for our duo in the -90kg, especially Milan Randl (still holding a eventual provisional Olympic spot) hopefully he will have some luck this time and win a match or two to gain some important points for the ranking, it would be great for our country to finally have someone in a combat sport at the Olympics ! and clearly Milan s our biggest chance.
A special mention to Marius Fizel, he finally received his first big chance and can compete against adults and start to learn and gain experiences, our probably most talented junior currently, the second ranked in the world juniors ranking this year, apparently he had some "interesting" training camp with the Czech Olympic champion Lukáš Krpálek