Kickboxing at the 2017 World Games

The kickboxing event at the World Games 2017 was held at the Orbita Hall in Poland.[1][2] For the first time, Kickboxing was included in the World Games 2017 as an invitational sport.[3]

Kickboxing
at the 2017 World Games
VenueOrbita Hall
Location Wrocław, Poland
Dates26–27 July 2017
Competitors95 from 31 nations

Events

Qualifying criteria

Qualifications for the World Games 2017 were held at the WAKO Continental Championships that were organized by each WAKO Continental Federation/ Confederation as follows:

  1. WAKO African Championships in Morocco (December 2016)
  2. WAKO Pan American Championships (27 -30 October 2016)
  3. WAKO European Championships (22-29 October 2016)
  4. WAKO Asian Championships (1-9 August 2015) and (October 2016)

To ensure that all Continents will be represented by the best athletes in each weight class, athletes will be selected as follows:

  1. From WAKO Europe: 4 athletes.
  2. From WAKO Pan America: 1 athletes.
  3. From WAKO Asia: 1 athlete
  4. From WAKO Africa: 1 athletes

The remaining one place in each weight class will be split evenly to 6/6 as follows:

  1. WAKO Asia: 6 Weight classes
  2. WAKO Pan America: 6 Weight classes.[4]

Qualification

The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for kickboxing at the 2017 World games:

Africa

The African Kickboxing Championships 2016 (K1 Rules style) which was held from the 21 to 25 December 2016 in Rabat, Morocco, served as qualification of African Kickboxing Confederation Athletes for 2017 World Games.[5]

Asia

The 2015 and 2016 Asian Kickboxing Championships acted consecutively, as stage one and stage two for the Asian qualifications of the 2017 World games. Stage one was held from the 1st till the 9th of August 2015 in Pune, India.[6]

The 2016 Asian Kickboxing Championships K1 Rules (stage two of the qualifications) were held over three days in Cheongju, Korea during October 2016, by the Asian Kickboxing Confederation (WAKO Asia) on the occasion of the Cheongju World Martial Arts Masterships with the participation of 16 member federations which competed in 12 weight categories.[7]

Europe

The European championships which was held from the 23 to 30 October 2016 in Maribor, Slovenia, was part of the K1 WAKO qualifying system for The World Games 2017.[8]

Pan America

The Pan American championships were held in Cancun, Mexico, from October 26 to 29, 2016. The event was the Pan American qualifications for the World Games organized by the International World Games Association (IWGA) in July 2017, in Wroclaw, Poland.[9] The American Continent has the right for 18 vacancies in 12 official categories at K1 Rules (8 for men and 4 for women) for the IWGA World Games 2017.

Venue

The Orbita Hall located in Wroclaw hosted martial arts during The World Games 2017.[10]

Participating nations

Medalists

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Light welterweight
−63.5 kg
 Ukraine
Orfan Sananzade
 Serbia
Aleksandar Konovalov
 Croatia
Muhamet Deskaj
Welterweight
−67 kg
 Serbia
Slobodan Mijailović
 Canada
Jason Hinds
 Poland
Wojciech Kazieczko
Light middleweight
−71 kg
 Ukraine
Vitalii Dubina
 Bulgaria
Bogdan Shumarov
 Israel
Itai Gershon
Middleweight
−75 kg
 France
Zakaria Laaouatni
 Poland
Michał Ronkiewicz
 Russia
Datsi Datsiev
Light heavyweight
−81 kg
 Serbia
Aleksandar Menković
 Bulgaria
Aleksandar Petrov
 United States
Omar Boyd
Cruiserweight
−86 kg
 Poland
Dawid Kasperski
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mesud Selimović
 Iran
Omid Nosrati
Heavyweight
−91 kg
 Russia
Igor Darmeshkin
 Poland
Mateusz Pluta
 Moldova
Pavel Voronin
Super heavyweight
+91 kg
 Turkey
Hamdi Saygılı
 Ukraine
Roman Holovatiuk
 Poland
Michał Turyński

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze

−52 kg
 Russia
Anna Poskrebysheva
 Slovakia
Monika Chochlíková
 China
Tam Si Long

−56 kg
 Czech Republic
Sandra Mašková
 Turkey
Seda Duygu Aygün
 Poland
Małgorzata Dymus

−60 kg
 Poland
Marta Waliczek
 Mexico
Melissa Martínez Aceves
 Morocco
Nabila Tabit

−65 kg
 Netherlands
Sarel de Jong
 Serbia
Teodora Manić
 Slovakia
Veronika Cmárová

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Poland2237
2 Serbia2204
3 Ukraine2103
4 Russia2013
5 Turkey1102
6 Czech Republic1001
 France1001
 Netherlands1001
9 Bulgaria0202
10 Slovakia0112
11 Bosnia and Herzegovina0101
 Canada0101
 Mexico0101
14 China0011
 Croatia0011
 Iran0011
 Israel0011
 Moldova0011
 Morocco0011
 United States0011
Totals (20 nations)12121236

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.