W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 in Bucharest | ||||
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Information | ||||
Promotion |
W.A.K.O. F.R.A.M.C. | |||
Date | 27 November – 1 December | |||
Venue | Polyvalent Hall | |||
City | Bucharest, Romania | |||
Event chronology | ||||
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W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 in Bucharest were the joint twenty-three European kickboxing championships held by the W.A.K.O. organization arranged by the Romanian Full-Contact Martial Arts Federation (F.R.A.M.C.) president Dorel Bulearcă. The first event was held the previous month in Ankara, Turkey. It was the first W.A.K.O. event to be held in Bucharest and Romania and involved over 550 amateur men and women from 35 countries across Europe. [1]
There were four styles on offer at Bucharest: Full-Contact, Semi-Contact, Light-Contact and Musical Forms. Only one competitor per weight division were allowed to participate in the first three, while Musical Forms was allowed two maximum per country. [1]
The top nation by the end of the championships was Russia, with Italy in second and Hungary in third. The winners of the Full-Contact and Semi-Contact events qualified for the World Combat Games 2013. [1]
The event was held over five days at the Polyvalent Hall in Bucharest, Romania, starting on Tuesday, 27 November and ending on Saturday, 1 December 2012. [1]
Full-Contact is a form of kickboxing where the contestants can throw punches and kicks with full power at legal targets above the waist. Victories are usually gained via a point's decision or by referee stoppage and as with most other forms of amateur kickboxing, various head and body protection must be worn. [2]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Light Bantamweight -51 kg | Alexey Trifonov | Dimitri Shudolschi | Wojciech Peryt
Çağrı Coşkun |
Bantamweight -54 kg | Ilnaz Sayfullin | Çağdaş Yıkılmaz | Guillaume Oz-uzun
Evgheni Ivanchenco |
Featherweight -57 kg | Alexandr Shamray | Hüseyin Dündar | Artem Skobchenko
Roberto Pizzagalli |
Lightweight -60 kg | Vasily Zaytsev | Nurettin Diler | Kamel Bacha
Damian Lawniczak |
Light Welterweight -63.5 kg | Sergey Lipinets | Gábor Garbics | Saidi William
Kostyantin Demoretskyy |
Welterweight -67 kg | Amansio Paraschiv | Oleg Zaytcev | Piotr Odwazny
Davyd Ahakhanov |
Light Middleweight -71 kg | Nikita Selyansky | Zsolt Benedek | Hallgeir Lien
Gregor Stračanek |
Middleweight -75 kg | Yusup Magomedbekov | Andreas Lodrup | Hünkar Kılıç
Teo Mikelic |
Light Heavyweight -81 kg | Samet Keser | Marian Makaveev | Vincent Grác
Mariusz Niziołek |
Cruiserweight -86 kg | Marco Deckmann | Ian Petrovich | Cristian Vedovelli
Roman Hasparian |
Heavyweight -91 kg | Eugen Waigel | Alexei Papin | Igor Prykhodko
Dănuţ Hurduc |
Super Heavyweight +91 kg | Emin Panian | Hamza Kendircioglu | Ivan Tkachenko
Georgij Fibich |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Bantamweight -48 kg | Valeria Calabrese | Rada Akulova | Hulya Allkayis
Malene Feldt |
Featherweight -52 kg | Sandra Drabik | Valentina Filatova | Funda Tiken
Clarissa Oddi |
Lightweight -56 kg | Tonje Sørlie | Dorota Godzina | Camilla Wiksten
Veronika Petrikova |
Middleweight -60 kg | Thea Therese Næss | Fatima Bokova | Ashley Brace
Maneka Kissel |
Light Heavyweight -65 kg | Cathrine Heggøy Fonnes | Ksenia Miroshnichenko |
Nicole Trimmel
Sema Fatma Okansoy |
Heavyweight -70 kg | Nives Radic | Beata Leśnik | Lucie Mlejnkova
Irina Gavrilova |
Super Heavyweight +70 kg | Anna Gladkikh | Eda Sahin | Denitsa Boyanova
Karolina Dziedzic |
Semi-Contact is the least physical of the contact kickboxing styles available at W.A.K.O. events. It involves the participants throwing controlled strikes at targets above the waist, with point's scored on the basis of speed and technique with power prohibited. Despite the less physical nature all contestants must wear head and various body protection. [3]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-50 kg | Giulia Cavallaro | Mercédesz Veres | Bo Mangan
Ebru Özmen |
-55 kg | Luisa Gullotti | Nelly Hanicz | Valeriya Utkina
Eirin Dale |
-60 kg | Shauna Bannon | Gloria De Bei | Evelyn Neyens
Adrienne Kadas |
-65 kg | Caradh O'Donovan | Ina Grindheim | Carlotta Pra
Andrea Busa |
-70 kg | Henrietta Nagy | Amber Makaulauski |
Maria Semenova
Adelheid Rump |
+70 kg | Irina Murashova | Anna Kondár | Gaynor Morgan
Diletta Faiola |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Team | Hungary | Italy | Bulgaria
Great Britain |
Light-Contact is a form of kickboxing that is less physical than Full-Contact but more so than Semi-Contact and is often seen as a transition between the two. Contestants score points on the basis of speed and technique over brute force although stoppages can occur, although as with other amateur forms head and body protection must be worn. Unfortunately, it is often in the shadow of the full contact styles. [4]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-57 kg | Kacper Narloch | Metin Adanç | Norbert Rizmayer
Mahmoud Sheikh |
-63 kg | Aleksandr Bakirov | Alex Crotti | Matthias Jenni
Maciej Domińczak |
-69 kg | Rustam Mirzoev | Nenad Manojlovski | Itay Gershon
Maciej Garbaczewski |
-74 kg | László Anda | Dimitar Gjorgiev | Alexey Lenberg
Wojciech Niedzielski |
-79 kg | Aivar Gafurov | Kamila Ruta | Andrei Costea
Salvatore Mangiafico |
-84 kg | Michał Mączka | Willmark Procida | Matej Engler
Ghenadie Bitco |
-89 kg | Dejan Vajs]] | Franz Gruber | Bogdan Nicolae Zamfir
Cyprian Grzęda |
-94 kg | Viktor Hargitai | Danilo Zaccone | Mihail Cârstea
Patryk Zaborowski |
+94 kg | Michał Wszelak | Peter Bayer | Daniel Alexandru
Artem Vasylenko |
Musical Forms is a type of non-physical competition which sees the contestants fighting against imaginary foes using Martial Arts techniques. Unlike Full, Semi and Light-Contact kickboxing there were no weight divisions, only male and female competitions and competitors were allowed to compete in more than one category with some countries having than one athlete in each category. The men and women at Bucharest competed in four different styles explained below:
Ranking | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1 | Russia | 18 | 15 | 9 |
2 | Italy | 12 | 6 | 13 |
3 | Hungary | 9 | 8 | 7 |
4 | Poland | 7 | 4 | 11 |
5 | Ireland | 4 | 5 | 4 |
6 | Norway | 3 | 2 | 2 |
7 | Germany | 3 | 0 | 4 |
8 | Turkey | 1 | 6 | 7 |
9 | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 4 |
10 | Belarus | 2 | 0 | 1 |
11 | Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 9 |
12 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 6 |
13 | Slovenia | 1 | 0 | 5 |
14 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
15 | Austria | 0 | 4 | 4 |
16 | France | 0 | 3 | 6 |
17 | Bulgaria | 0 | 3 | 4 |
18 | Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 2 |
19 | Macedonia | 0 | 2 | 1 |
20 | Moldova | 0 | 1 | 2 |
20 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 2 |
20 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 2 |
23 | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 5 |
24 | Israel | 0 | 0 | 2 |
25 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 |
25 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 |
W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 in Bucharest | ||||
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Information | ||||
Promotion |
W.A.K.O. F.R.A.M.C. | |||
Date | 27 November – 1 December | |||
Venue | Polyvalent Hall | |||
City | Bucharest, Romania | |||
Event chronology | ||||
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W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 in Bucharest were the joint twenty-three European kickboxing championships held by the W.A.K.O. organization arranged by the Romanian Full-Contact Martial Arts Federation (F.R.A.M.C.) president Dorel Bulearcă. The first event was held the previous month in Ankara, Turkey. It was the first W.A.K.O. event to be held in Bucharest and Romania and involved over 550 amateur men and women from 35 countries across Europe. [1]
There were four styles on offer at Bucharest: Full-Contact, Semi-Contact, Light-Contact and Musical Forms. Only one competitor per weight division were allowed to participate in the first three, while Musical Forms was allowed two maximum per country. [1]
The top nation by the end of the championships was Russia, with Italy in second and Hungary in third. The winners of the Full-Contact and Semi-Contact events qualified for the World Combat Games 2013. [1]
The event was held over five days at the Polyvalent Hall in Bucharest, Romania, starting on Tuesday, 27 November and ending on Saturday, 1 December 2012. [1]
Full-Contact is a form of kickboxing where the contestants can throw punches and kicks with full power at legal targets above the waist. Victories are usually gained via a point's decision or by referee stoppage and as with most other forms of amateur kickboxing, various head and body protection must be worn. [2]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Light Bantamweight -51 kg | Alexey Trifonov | Dimitri Shudolschi | Wojciech Peryt
Çağrı Coşkun |
Bantamweight -54 kg | Ilnaz Sayfullin | Çağdaş Yıkılmaz | Guillaume Oz-uzun
Evgheni Ivanchenco |
Featherweight -57 kg | Alexandr Shamray | Hüseyin Dündar | Artem Skobchenko
Roberto Pizzagalli |
Lightweight -60 kg | Vasily Zaytsev | Nurettin Diler | Kamel Bacha
Damian Lawniczak |
Light Welterweight -63.5 kg | Sergey Lipinets | Gábor Garbics | Saidi William
Kostyantin Demoretskyy |
Welterweight -67 kg | Amansio Paraschiv | Oleg Zaytcev | Piotr Odwazny
Davyd Ahakhanov |
Light Middleweight -71 kg | Nikita Selyansky | Zsolt Benedek | Hallgeir Lien
Gregor Stračanek |
Middleweight -75 kg | Yusup Magomedbekov | Andreas Lodrup | Hünkar Kılıç
Teo Mikelic |
Light Heavyweight -81 kg | Samet Keser | Marian Makaveev | Vincent Grác
Mariusz Niziołek |
Cruiserweight -86 kg | Marco Deckmann | Ian Petrovich | Cristian Vedovelli
Roman Hasparian |
Heavyweight -91 kg | Eugen Waigel | Alexei Papin | Igor Prykhodko
Dănuţ Hurduc |
Super Heavyweight +91 kg | Emin Panian | Hamza Kendircioglu | Ivan Tkachenko
Georgij Fibich |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Bantamweight -48 kg | Valeria Calabrese | Rada Akulova | Hulya Allkayis
Malene Feldt |
Featherweight -52 kg | Sandra Drabik | Valentina Filatova | Funda Tiken
Clarissa Oddi |
Lightweight -56 kg | Tonje Sørlie | Dorota Godzina | Camilla Wiksten
Veronika Petrikova |
Middleweight -60 kg | Thea Therese Næss | Fatima Bokova | Ashley Brace
Maneka Kissel |
Light Heavyweight -65 kg | Cathrine Heggøy Fonnes | Ksenia Miroshnichenko |
Nicole Trimmel
Sema Fatma Okansoy |
Heavyweight -70 kg | Nives Radic | Beata Leśnik | Lucie Mlejnkova
Irina Gavrilova |
Super Heavyweight +70 kg | Anna Gladkikh | Eda Sahin | Denitsa Boyanova
Karolina Dziedzic |
Semi-Contact is the least physical of the contact kickboxing styles available at W.A.K.O. events. It involves the participants throwing controlled strikes at targets above the waist, with point's scored on the basis of speed and technique with power prohibited. Despite the less physical nature all contestants must wear head and various body protection. [3]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-50 kg | Giulia Cavallaro | Mercédesz Veres | Bo Mangan
Ebru Özmen |
-55 kg | Luisa Gullotti | Nelly Hanicz | Valeriya Utkina
Eirin Dale |
-60 kg | Shauna Bannon | Gloria De Bei | Evelyn Neyens
Adrienne Kadas |
-65 kg | Caradh O'Donovan | Ina Grindheim | Carlotta Pra
Andrea Busa |
-70 kg | Henrietta Nagy | Amber Makaulauski |
Maria Semenova
Adelheid Rump |
+70 kg | Irina Murashova | Anna Kondár | Gaynor Morgan
Diletta Faiola |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Team | Hungary | Italy | Bulgaria
Great Britain |
Light-Contact is a form of kickboxing that is less physical than Full-Contact but more so than Semi-Contact and is often seen as a transition between the two. Contestants score points on the basis of speed and technique over brute force although stoppages can occur, although as with other amateur forms head and body protection must be worn. Unfortunately, it is often in the shadow of the full contact styles. [4]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
-57 kg | Kacper Narloch | Metin Adanç | Norbert Rizmayer
Mahmoud Sheikh |
-63 kg | Aleksandr Bakirov | Alex Crotti | Matthias Jenni
Maciej Domińczak |
-69 kg | Rustam Mirzoev | Nenad Manojlovski | Itay Gershon
Maciej Garbaczewski |
-74 kg | László Anda | Dimitar Gjorgiev | Alexey Lenberg
Wojciech Niedzielski |
-79 kg | Aivar Gafurov | Kamila Ruta | Andrei Costea
Salvatore Mangiafico |
-84 kg | Michał Mączka | Willmark Procida | Matej Engler
Ghenadie Bitco |
-89 kg | Dejan Vajs]] | Franz Gruber | Bogdan Nicolae Zamfir
Cyprian Grzęda |
-94 kg | Viktor Hargitai | Danilo Zaccone | Mihail Cârstea
Patryk Zaborowski |
+94 kg | Michał Wszelak | Peter Bayer | Daniel Alexandru
Artem Vasylenko |
Musical Forms is a type of non-physical competition which sees the contestants fighting against imaginary foes using Martial Arts techniques. Unlike Full, Semi and Light-Contact kickboxing there were no weight divisions, only male and female competitions and competitors were allowed to compete in more than one category with some countries having than one athlete in each category. The men and women at Bucharest competed in four different styles explained below:
Ranking | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Russia | 18 | 15 | 9 |
2 | Italy | 12 | 6 | 13 |
3 | Hungary | 9 | 8 | 7 |
4 | Poland | 7 | 4 | 11 |
5 | Ireland | 4 | 5 | 4 |
6 | Norway | 3 | 2 | 2 |
7 | Germany | 3 | 0 | 4 |
8 | Turkey | 1 | 6 | 7 |
9 | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 4 |
10 | Belarus | 2 | 0 | 1 |
11 | Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 9 |
12 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 6 |
13 | Slovenia | 1 | 0 | 5 |
14 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
15 | Austria | 0 | 4 | 4 |
16 | France | 0 | 3 | 6 |
17 | Bulgaria | 0 | 3 | 4 |
18 | Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 2 |
19 | Macedonia | 0 | 2 | 1 |
20 | Moldova | 0 | 1 | 2 |
20 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 2 |
20 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 2 |
23 | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 5 |
24 | Israel | 0 | 0 | 2 |
25 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 |
25 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 |