Dear WAKO Europe Member!!
To me, the winter holiday represents a peaceful time to spend time with our loved ones and reflect on the year that has passed. Our sport has seen great successes despite the pandemic affecting our day to day lives, such as the inclusion in the 2023 European Games and the full IOC recognition. These could not have been achieved without our persistent members passionate about developing and promoting our sport of Kickboxing. Let us take a moment to value the past accomplishments and set goals for the coming year. I sincerely thank you all for your dedicated work and I hope you can recover during the holiday so that we can set to develop our beloved sport invigorated in the new year.
Dear All,
Please receive attached all relevant information about EUSA Games which will be held in Lodz, Poland from July 14th, to July 19th, 2022.
Please, pay attention on this important event for WAKO Europe and work closely with your National University Sports Association in order to make sure that all of your athletes who have right to participate have opportunity to do that.
Please, be aware that we all have to start working on this important issue as soon as possible.
In case you need any additional assistance don't hesitate to contact us.
Thank you in advance for your kind co-operation.
With best regards,
Dear kickboxing friends
European University Sports Association (EUSA) and the local organising committee of the European University Games 2022 in Łódź, Poland are happy to announce that the registration for next year's events is open! European Universities Games (kickboxing – PF,KL,FC,K1) will be held in Łódź, Poland from July 14 – 19, 2022.
Please see the event pages https://eug2022.eu/en/main/ for details and contact the national university sports body in your country (ctrl+click to open link) to register.
EUSA web page with all information and for registration with instruction is: https://eug2022.eu/en/
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE
Each national kickboxing federation (NKBF) should contact and co-operate with the National University Sports Association (NUSA) in the shortest time and agree on further cooperation and communication regarding the participation of kickboxers at the EUSA Games - Łódź, Poland 2022.
WAKO Brochure for EUSA Games for kickboxing please find enclosed.
2022 EUSA Registrations Guide for Contact person
2022 EUSA Registrations Guide for NUSA
EUSA GAMES - Lodz 2022 - KICKBOXING - Brochure
Mr. Istvan Kiraly (HUN) has been elected as the WAKO Europe president for the 4 years mandate, at the duly conveened WAKO Europe General Assembly , 18th September 2021 in Budapest. Before elections, Istvan Kiraly has served the position of Acting President of WAKO Europe for past 2 years.
With the election of the new President, it was also elected the new Board of Directors with the appointments of Vice-presidents. All proposals have been voted unanimously.
The first Vice president of WAKO Europe is Mr. Salim Kayici (TUR) and the other two are Mr. Espen Lund (NOR) and Mrs.Francesca Falsoni (ITA).
The members of the Board are:
Michell Kovacova (Slovakia)
Olga Pavlenko (Ukraine)
Romeo Desa (Croatia)
Daimi Akin (Norway)
Donato Milano (Italy)
Nadir Alouache (France)
Katarzyna Kociszewska (Poland)
Ivan Georgiev (Bulgaria)
Andrey Kotov (Russia)
Zsolt Mórádi (Hungary)
Jesus Eguía (Spain)
Tomaz Barada (Slovenia)
Nikolaus Gstättner, treasurer of WAKO Europe (Austria).
The new elected President specially thanked for extraordinary efforts and commitment in the last period to: Mr. Roy Baker, WAKO President, for his hard work and leadership which brought WAKO and our sport to the highest possible level, Mr. Espen Lund for his tireless work, passion, and sport diplomacy contribution for WAKO, Tomaz Barada, without who it could not be possible to finish negotiation with European Olympic Committee, Peter Galambos for his work side by side with newly elected president in Hungarian national federation for many, many years and to all national presidents for the support.
Dear WAKO friends,
Balkan Open 2021 held in Tešanj 25.09.2021 / Bosnia and Herzegovina, participation number of entries 350, number of clubs 61, number of countries 10.
Balkan Open was organized by CBS Tešanj and Kickboxing Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina.Competition supervisor was Mr.Salko Zildžić,chief judge Neđo Bratić,Bosnia and Herzegovina.Competition held on 3 tatamis and 1 ring.Event was heald in sport atmosphere.Balkan Open 2021 another great WAKO event has been successfully organised traditionaly 15 times.Top level of organisation has shown that,year after year this signification tournament has improved in every way-from sports,competing,overality and organisation to hospitality.Both female and male kickboxers has shown high quality in their performances and presented all the beauty of this sport.The complete event was broadcast live on Live Streamin TV.By this we would like to show our respect and thank to Promotor,Mr.Alija Ogrić
Balkan Open was attended by Mayor of Tešanj and Deputy Prime Minister of the Zenica-Doboj Canton, as well as the sponsors of the event.Partipacipated competitors from Russia,Portugal,Slovenia,Hungary,Croatia,Serbia,Moldavia,Makedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Best team in tatami discipline Team Dusch 4 Belgorod Russia and best team in ring disciplines Favorit BH Bihać/Bosnia and Herzegovina
The judges made a very good job,and a lot of thanks goes to them
We thank all participants for coming.
See you next year…
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The official results of the Balkan Open 2021 was heal in www.sportdata.org and www.wakobalkanopen.com
Alija Ogrić
Vice President WAKO Balkan Kickboxing Union and
Vice President Kickboxing Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina
Address:
Blagajska 15/41
(Mr. Srdjan Bugarcic),
11050 Belgrade, Serbia.
Contact phone:
+381 63 289 322
Email:
President
Mr. Istvan Kiraly
+ 36 309 400 935
Secretary
Srđan Bugarčić
+ 381 63 289 322
WAKO Europe Board
Istvan Kiraly (HUN)
Salim Kayici (TUR)
Francesca Falsoni (ITA)
Yury Filimonov (RUS)
Nikolaus Gstattner (AUT)
Katarszyna Kocisewska (POL)
Olga Pavlenko (UKR)
Daimi Akin (NOR)
Romeo Desa (HRV)
Tomaz Barada (SVN)
Michaela Kovacova (SVK)
Michail Trantafillou (GRC)