WAKO European cadet and junior championships 2017 - FINALS

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Published on Friday, 08 September 2017 21:12

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WAKO EUROPE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017

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Published on Friday, 08 September 2017 10:00

WAKO EUROPE held its Ordinary General Assembly on Monday, September 4^th, 2017 in Skopje, FYROM. Delegates representing 35 countries, members of WAKO Europe were present.

WAKO EU General Assembly 2017

In his opening words WAKO Europe Acting President, Mr Roy Baker has welcomed all Delegates and congratulated them for their hard work in development of kickboxing in their own countries. Mr Roy Baker has presented his annually report of activities and future plans which was approved unanimously. Such as Acting President’s report, Financial Statement 2016, Budget 2017 and Draft Budget 2018 have been approved unanimously.

Delegates

Chairman of various WAKO Europe Committees have been presented reports of activities to WAKO Europe Assembly Delegates and reports have been approved unanimously.
This WAKO Europe General Assembly was also election one for the position of WAKO Europe President and WAKO Europe Board Members.
Delegates have elected by unanimous decision for new WAKO Europe President Mr Roy Baker from Ireland.

Mr Roy Baker, WAKO Europe President

For the new WAKO Europe Board members Delegates have elected:
1. Mr Istvan Kiraly (Hungary) – First Vice President
2. Mr Salim Kayici (Turkey) – Vice President
3. Mrs Francesca Falsoni (Italy) – Vice President
4. Mr Yury Filimonov (Russia) – member
5. Mr Nikolaus Gstattner (Austria) – member
6. Mrs Katarszyna Kocisewska (Poland) – member
7. Ms Olga Pavlenko (Ukraine) – member
8. Mr Daimi Akin (Norway) – member
9. Mr Romeo Desa (Croatia) – member
10. Mr Tomaz Barada (Slovenia) – member
11. Ms Michaela Kovacova (Slovakia) – member
12. Michail Trantafillou (Greece) – member

WAKO Europe Board of Directors

Congratulations to new WAKO Europe President Mr Roy Baker and to new WAKO Europe Board members for their election on these important and responsible positions. We are sure that with them kickboxing and WAKO Europe is in safe hands.

WAKO Junior and Cadet European Championships 2017

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Published on Friday, 08 September 2017 00:00

Skopje, FYROM

After 3 inspiring days of competition at the WAKO European Championships in the beautiful city of Skopje, we have reached the semi finals stage. A busy week first saw the WAKO board meeting and the election of acting president of WAKO Europe, Roy Baker to president with Istvan Kiraly taking up the position of 1st vice president.

Day 1 of action saw 1,563 entries from 37 nations spring to life with the 1/16 and 1/8 finals in all 7 disciplines of pointfighting, light contact, kick light, low kick, full contact, K-1 and musical forms in the age groups youngest cadets, younger cadet, older cadets and juniors.



Russia had the most entries with 176 followed by Poland (150), Hungary (138), Italy (112) and Greece (111).

FYROM has experience in hosting major events having held senior world and European championships in the past in 2011 and 2006 respectively, but it is the first time for President of the FYROM WAKO federation Mr Dejan Mitrovski Urko who has excelled in bringing a world class event back to the Boris Trajkovski Sport Centre, which is named after the former FYRO Macedonian president who died in a plane crash in 2004.

The results from the musical forms divisions are the first to be confirmed with Ireland and Russia taking the bulk of the gold medal positions. Finals from the fighting discipines will take place tomorrow and Saturday with the highlight of the week, the team event also taking place on Saturday.



As the competition draws to a close over the coming days, we wish all our competitors the very best of luck as they battle to claim the prize  they have prepared for so intensively over the last year.

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WAKO EC for Cadets and Juniors

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Published on Thursday, 07 September 2017 17:13

WAKO European Championships for Cadets and Juniors
September 2^nd – September 10^th, 2017

Skopje, FYROM

Beautiful city of Skopje has hosted this year edition of WAKO European Championships for Cadets and Juniors. Huge number of 1.563 athletes from 37 countries all around the Europe filled up with energy and enthusiasm Boris Trajkovski Arena, massive sport complex in the hearth of Skopje.

Opening ceremony took place on Tuesday, September 5^th, 2017 with presence of Director of Agency of sport and youth of FYROM, Mr Darko Kaevski

Opening speech was delivered by Mr Darko Kaevski and Mr Roy Baker, WAKO Europe President.

After the Opening ceremony Championships started with qualification fights on 11 areas (8 tatami and 3 rings).