Everton Teixeira (Brazil) is the new
WORLD CHAMPION. He met
Jan Soukoup (Czech Republic) at the final and won the fight doing ipon with a low kick.
Artur Ovanesian (Armenia) won against
Darmen Sadvokasov (Russia) in the fight for the third place. After many extensions he got 3 judges voting for him and 2 giving a draw.
Rewarding the top fighters in the championship
The whole championship was full of surprises – many ipons and wazaris.
Lechi Kurbanov (Russia) lost against
Ilia Karpenko (Russia) – he received an unexpected jodan mawashi in the head. May be he had underestimated his opponent or after having made a knock out to
Hristo Hristov (Bulgaria), Lechi was a bit nervous and decided to show that he can manage without his winning technique – tobi ushiro mawashi geri.
Petar Martinov (Bulgaria) lost against
Anderson da Silva (Brazil) after a 7 minute fight, another draw and one board less broken.
Alejandro Navarro (Spain) did ipon with ushiro mawashi geri and won against his opponent
Yoje Koguri (Japan).
Pablo Estenoso (Spain) knocked out his opponent
Fabiano da Silva (Brazil) with a hidza geri.
All this led to the quarter finals where the draw was the f ollowing:
Ewerton Teixeira (Brazil) –
Darmen Sadvokasov (Russia);
Jan Soukoup (Czech Republic) –
Artur Ovanesian (Armenia). For the first time there were no Japanese in the top four.
Lechi Kurbanov won the award for
Tameshivari with the
record 31 boards broken.
Europe and Russia gave a very strong performance - there were 6 European and 9 Russian fighters in the last day.
Well done for the
Bulgarian fighters as well! They fought full heartedly and came in the
top 32 in the world of Kuokushinkai. Congratulations and welcome back home!
picture with the top fighters
Bellow are the official results of the championship:
Results:
1. Ewerton Teixeira - Brazil
2. Jan Sokup - Czech R.
3. Artur Hovhannisian - Armenia
4. Darmen Sadvokasov - Russia
5. Andrei Stepin - Russia
6. Alejandro Navarro - Spain
7. Eduardo Tanaka - Brazil
8. Tatsuya Murata - Japan
Best Technique Award - Artur Hovhanissian
Best Spirit Award - Tatsuya Murata
Freshman Award - Tatsuya Murata
Tameshiwari Award - Lechi Kurbanov (31 boards)
