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4TH EUROPEAN OPEN CATEGORY CHAMPIONSHIPS WARSAW 2004
2004-11-28

      On November 27th in the Sports-Hall Torwar in Warsaw 4th European Open Category Championships under honorary patronage of the President of Poland were held. There ware 88 competitors from 19 countries. More than 5000 spectators came to see the Championships. The Polish Kyokushin Karate Organization was an organizer. The main judge  was shihan Antonio Pinero (7 dan). The honourable guest of the championships was the member of International Committe IC IKO shihan Loek Hollander (8 dan).

      The official opening of the 4th European Open Category Championships in the name of the President Aleksander Kwasniewski executed the chairman of Polands Olympian Committe Mr Stefan Paszczyk.

During the championships a One Match Fight between Poland and Japan was held.

The World's Strongest Man 2003, Mariusz Pudzianowski was a special quest of the championships and gave a demonstration of his unique skills and strenght.

The tournament draw, detailed results and photos were being updated LIVE from Warsaw, Poland.

KUMITE MEN DRAW:  BLOCK A  BLOCK B  BLOCK C  BLOCK D

KUMITE MEN finals DRAW

KUMITE WOMEN DRAW

KUMITE SENIOR DRAW

-= RESULTS =-

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Opening Ceremony

Kata

Eliminations
Kumite Oldboy

Eliminations
Kumite Woman

Eliminations
Kumite Man

World's Strongest
Man Demonstration

One Match Fight

Semi-finals

Finals


Awards handing
ceremony


Sayonara

Training with
Japanese Guests




Poland vs Japan

One Match Fight


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Ewa Pawlikowska
age: 29
grade: 2 dan
height: 164 cm
weight: 55 kg

World Champion '97 '98 '03
European Champion
'96 '00 '01 '02
American Champion
'99 '00 '01 '02 '04
Polish Champion
'96'97'98'99'00'01'02'03

VS

Natsumi Iwai
age: 24
grade: 1 dan
height: 157 cm
weight: 55 kg

Japanese Champion
'02 '03 '04

Asian Champion '01


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Winner: Ewa Pawlikowska - Poland

 
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Piotr Moczydlowski
age: 22
grade: 2 kyu
height: 174 cm
weight: 70 kg

European Champion '04

Polish Champion '02 '03

German Champion '03
VS Masafumi Tagahara
age: 39
grade: 3 dan
height: 162 cm
weight: 69 kg

World Champion '01

Best Technique Award
8WOKT '04

Japanese Champion
'96 '00
 
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Winner: Masafumi Tagahara - Japan


THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL BLACK BELT CONFERENCE BANFF 2004
2004-11-12

     Banff, Alberta, Canada situated in the middle of the majestic Canadian Rocky Mountains played host to 150 enthusiastic Kyokushin Karate members from various parts of the world.
    The 4th North American & International Kyokushin Karate Black Belt Conference was held on October 8th, 9th and 10th at the world famous Banff Centre. Participants for Canada, United States, Singapore, Scotland, and the Ukraine converged for 3 days of Kyokushin training with three top Kyokushin Karate instructors: Kancho Shokei Matsui, Shihan Bobby Lowe and Shihan Seiji Isobe.  (Info from www.kyokushin.ca )

Read the Report by Sensei Jan Tereszczenko




36TH ALL JAPAN OPEN KARATE TOURNAMENT TOKYO 2004
2004-11-08

Official Results:

1. Kentaro Tanaka - Japan
2. Tadakuni Tokuda - Japan
3. Mihail Kozlov - Russia
4. Maxim Dedik - Russia
5. Darmen Sadvokasov - Russia
6. Kenshin Morimura - Japan
7. Makoto Ikemoto - Japan
8. Hiroyuki Kidachi - Japan
 


INTERNATIONAL GERMAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS FRANKFURT 2004
2004-11-06
Official poster

      On November 6th in Westerbachhalle (Frankfurt am Main) International German Open Championships were held. Tournament gathered 49 competitors from 9 countries. There was 250 spectators. Competition was held in 7 standard categories. Organiser of the championships was chief of Frankfurt Kyokushin sensei Slawomir Urbanczyk. Main judge was German Country Representative Christoph Fischer. EKKO supervisor was General Secretary Shihan Andre Drewniak.


GALLERY 


Tameshiwari


Kumite Woman


Kumite Man


Awards Handing
Ceremony



7TH KYOKUSHIN FESTIVAL KYOTO 2004
2004-10-18

     The 7th Kyokushin Festival was held on August 29th in Kyoto's Budo Center. The 6th All Japan Women and Senior Championships, The 3rd All Japan Kata Championships, The 5th All Japan Senior and The 6th All Japan Women Kata Championships as well as The 4th All Japan Students Championships were played simultaneously on 6 tatami courts. Tournament gathered 231 participants and was officially opened by Kancho Shokei Matsui.
     Three European karateka took part in this event: Jana Korinkova from Czech Republic finished 4th in women middleweight category and Andrzej Zacharski from Poland entered "best 6" in Kata. In the special One Match Fight Alejandro Navarro challenged Japanese ace - Kentaro Tanaka. Talented fighter from Spain again showed an excellent performance in each of the three round battle. One of his flashy kicks reached Tanaka's face, but it was not enough to get the point and after all judges decided of Tanaka's victory.

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2004-10-13  EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS RIESA 2004 - DVD NOW ON SALE !
2004-10-04  HONBU DOJO SUMMER CAMP SHIRAKO 2004
2004-09-09  NORWEGIAN SUMMER CAMP OSLO 2004


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