On Saturday, May 11, 2019, from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm in the Municipal Sports and Entertainment Hall "Salt City" in Wieliczka, the 9th International Tournament for the Kyokushinkai Karate Salt Cup took place. The organizer of the competition was the Karate Kyokushinkai Karate Club in Wieliczka (Wielicki Klub Karate Kyokushinkai) (KWF) under the leadership of the chairman Krzysztof R. Kopciowski (2nd dan). The tournament took place with the support of the City and Commune of Wieliczka and the Wieliczka Poviat. The main judge of the tournament was shihan Janusz Piórkowski (5th dan), technical judge sensei Sławomir Rudawski (4th dan) and chairman of the organizing committee was shihan Robert Kopciowski (5th dan) President of Małopolska District Karate Federation. This year's tournament in Wieliczka both due to the level of sports competition and the number of competitors in each category was very demanding. In this event, on 3 mats, 350 competitors from 43 clubs from 4 countries (Romania, Poland, Germany and Czech Republic) and 7 kyokushin organizations participated with 39 judges. The competition honored many special guests including General Secretary of the Kyokushin World Federation (KWF) shihan Andre Drewniak 9.DAN, Romanian Country Representative sensei Ilie Ionescu4.DAN, German Country Representative sensei Janusz Konieczko4.DAN, Czech Country Representative sensei Peter Drożdżak 4.DAN , Vice-chairman of the City Council in Wieliczka Bogdan Lizak, Chairwoman of the Krzyszkowice housing estate and member of the city council Elżbieta Sikora and inspector in the sport department of the Wieliczka district Joanna Boduch. Guests and judges were given thanks and hand-made ceramic cups. During the decoration of the winners, 150 diplomas, 48 ​​cups of 147 medals prepared by the artistic studio ArcyDzielnia from Wieliczka were awarded. Great coffee was provided by Caffè Cagliari Polska and Magenta catering helped to supplement calories.

On April 27 in Zaporizhia, Ukraine was held the Ukrainian KWF Championship organizers: KWF Ukraine - Sensei Dmytro Nikolaiev. Chief referee of the championship - senpai Eugene Bozhko. 440 athletes from Cherkassy, Chernigov, Kherson, Kharkiv, Poltava, Mykolayiv, Zaporozhye and Dnipropetrovsk regions competed in the competition for the right to be the first. Among the participants were the winners and prize-winners of international competitions, championships of Europe and the world.

The 6th. All UK Open Karate Tournament took place in Glasgow last Saturday April 13th. Teams from all over the UK took part along with Irish, Italian, Polish, German and Russian fighters. A team from the Irish Kyokushin Organisation's Clonmel Dojo was among those who fought. The Irish Kyokushin Organisation was represented by Lukasz Smykowski, Oliver Solarski, Antoni Horan, Filip Miklaszewski and Nicol Richter under Sensei Maciej Solarski. After some hard fought matches Nicol Richter took her place on the winner's podium with 2nd place in the Girls 8-9 years Kumite and Filip Miklaszewski earned the 3rd place trophy in the boys 12-13 years Kumite. Oliver Solarski, Lukasz Smykowski and Antoni Horan they fought very well, gaining new experience on their way of karate. Congratulations to all fighters who took part and well done to the some great results! OSU!