We have the latest news from Japan!
In the second day of the championship
Petar Martinov managed to eliminate two competitors – one from New Zealand and
Andrei Chirkov from Russia. Our competitor won his first fight with wazari making ushiro mawashi with a jump against the impressive New Zealander (weighting 115 kg). The second fight against the Russian karateka was won quickly in the regular time.
As a whole, Europe is doing really well.
Pablo Estensoro is knocking out everybody who is standing on his way to the title. So far he has made 4 wazari with hidza geri djodan.
Navaro is in perfect shape and he is moving quickly towards the finals.
On the third day of the championship there are only 32 fighters remaining. Six of them are from Europe: 2 Bulgarian fighters –
Petar Martinov and
Zahari Damianov; 2 Spanish fighters –
Alejandro Navaro and
Pablo Estensoro; 1 Armenian –
Artur Vhovanisian and the Czech competitor
Jan Sokoup. Only five fights stay on the way of the future world champion to the golden medal.
The final day will start with tameshiveri. What is coming next is the fight of
Petar Martinov against the Brazilian competitor
Andriano da Silva, followed by the fight of
Diego da Silva /Brazil/ against
Tatsua Murata /Japan/.
Everton Teixeira /who is the favourite of this championship/ is next.
Yesterday
Stilian Petrov and
Hristo Hristov were eliminated after hard fights with some of the favourite competitors in the championship.
Hristo Hristov fought against
Lechi Kurbanov (pointed out as the top fighter of Russia) and
Stilian Petrov lost after a disputable fight with
Godzeri Kanadze /Russia/ (European champion category -90 kg for 2005).
Fingers crossed for our guys and let’s wish them to continue with their good performance till the very end of the championship!
We have the latest news from Japan!
Navaro is in perfect shape and he is moving quickly towards the finals.