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THE 8TH WORLD OPEN KARATE TOURNAMENT
2003-11-05


Results:

1. Hitoshi Kiyama - Japan
2. Sergey Plekhanov - Russia
3. Ewerton Teixeira - Brazil
4. Glaube Feitosa - Brazil
5. Lechi Kurbanov - Russia
6. Yasuhiko Kimura - Japan
7. Sergey Osipov - Russia
8. Hiroyuki Kidachi - Japan

Best technique:
Masafumi Tagahara
Best spirit:
Emil Kostov and Hiroyuki Kidachi
Best tameshiwari:
Sergey Plekhanov - 29 boards

Photo Hightlights

              
Opening ceremony              1st day                2nd day  - part 1         2nd day  - part 2

              
Finals - opening                Finalists                   Tameshiwari          Demonstrations

              
  Special demonstration        3rd day             Fight for the 3rd place    Awards handing
Ryu Narushima and Francisco Filho                                              and closing ceremony

 
Final Match


8TH WORLD OPEN CATEGORY CHAMPIONSHIPS TOKYO 2003
2003-11-04
 

Name: 8th World Open Karate Tournament
Place: Tokyo/ Japan
Date: 1 - 3 November 2003
Organiser: International Karate Organisation Kyokushinkaikan
Contact: IKO Honbu Senpai Joji Hibino / Senpai Minoru Katae
European affairs:  Senpai Andrzej Zacharski
Tel: +81-3-5992-7733 Fax: +81-3-5992-9600
E-mail: info@kyokushin.co.jp

Photos


1st day:       (part 1)        (part 2)

2nd day:   (part 1)   (part 2)   (part 3)

1/32     1/16     1/8    Final fight

The fight for the 3rd place was won by Ewerton Teixeira 5:0

TOURNAMENT DRAW
Tournament draw, detailed results and photos were being updated LIVE from Tokyo Taiikukan.


FINALS DRAW
(best 32 fighters)




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8 WOKT NEWS:

09-10-2003
List of 240 participants has been finished.
14-10-2003
Fighter details: draw number, height, weight and photos is constantly under construction.
18-10-2003
Tournament draw has been finished and published on the website.
22-10-2003
East European fighters 8WOKT preparation camp - photo report :   photos
27-10-2003
Check out the official 8th World Open Karate Tournament posters:

        

28-10-2003
All 240 fighter's photos and details has been uploaded.
30-10-2003
Most of the national teams arrived in Tokyo.
31-10-2003
Judges seminar, fighters registration meeting, Branch Chiefs and International Comitee meeting with Kancho Shokei Matsui and press conference with pretendents to the world champion title had place. Between 14 invited fighters there were two Europeans: Emil Kostov from Bulgaria and Tomasz Najduch from Poland.


         

photos

8WOKT - LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
updated: 20th October

EUROPEAN TEAM
updated: 17th October


EAST EUROPEAN FIGHTERS 8WOKT PREPARATION CAMP ZAKOPANE '03
2003-10-27

 


               


photo report


4TH POLISH OPEN CATEGORY CHAMPIONSHIPS LEGNICA 2003
2003-10-24
Opening ceremony

     On October 11 the 4th Polish Open Category Championships were held in Legnica. Tournament was organised in Hotel Qubus and gathered 61 fighters from Poland, Czech and Germany. 
     Organiser - Sensei Andrzej Kaczkowski provided the high speed internet connection, thanks to which to online transmision was possible even though the webmaster is currently in Tokyo. There was approximately 400 entries on Polish Kyokushin website: www.kyokushin.org.pl during the whole day.
     Main Judge was Shihan Andre Drewniak.

 results & photos 


KANCHO MATSUI - HONOUR GUEST OF ALL STARS SUMO TOURNAMENT
2003-10-10

      On 27th of October one of the biggest sumo tournaments took place in Tokyo.
     All current sumo stars participated in this event, which was held in the Ryogoku Kokugikan sports hall - the same one, in which The First World Open Karate Tournament was organised by  Sosai Masutatsu Oyama in year 1975.

Total of 10 000 spectators gathered in the hall.

     As a part of the event, so called Danpatsushiki  - traditional hair cutting ceremony of finishing career sumo master - Higonoumi was held. As the only representative of karate art - Kancho Shokei Matsui was invited to take part in this prestigeous moment - as one of the most valuable person for japanese Budo. 
     Tournament was won by the young sumo-ka - Asashoryu, who suprised everybody and defeated much bigger then himself - Yokozuna Musashimaru. 

photos  


2003-09-09  JAPANESE KARATE DEMONSTRATION
2003-07-31  SUMMER CAMP BENASQUE 2003
2003-08-01  EAST EUROPEAN SUMMER CAMP CRACOW 2003


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