Kickboxing at the 2017 World Games explained

Event:Kickboxing
Year:2017
Venue:Orbita Hall
Dates:26–27 July 2017
Competitors:95
Nations:31
Next:2022

The kickboxing event at the World Games 2017 was held at the Orbita Hall in Poland.[1] [2] For the first time, kickboxing was included in the World Games 2017 as an invitational sport.[3]

Events

Qualifying criteria

Qualifications for the World Games 2017 were held at the WAKO Continental Championships that were organized by each WAKO Continental Federation/ Confederation as follows:

  1. WAKO African Championships in Morocco (December 2016)
  2. WAKO Pan American Championships (27 -30 October 2016)
  3. WAKO European Championships (22-29 October 2016)
  4. WAKO Asian Championships (1-9 August 2015) and (October 2016)

To ensure that all Continents will be represented by the best athletes in each weight class, athletes will be selected as follows:

  1. From WAKO Europe: 4 athletes.
  2. From WAKO Pan America: 1 athletes.
  3. From WAKO Asia: 1 athlete
  4. From WAKO Africa: 1 athletes

The remaining one place in each weight class will be split evenly to 6/6 as follows:

  1. WAKO Asia: 6 Weight classes
  2. WAKO Pan America: 6 Weight classes.[4]

Qualification

The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for kickboxing at the 2017 World games:

AfricaThe African Kickboxing Championships 2016 (K1 Rules style) which was held from the 21 to 25 December 2016 in Rabat, Morocco, served as qualification of African Kickboxing Confederation Athletes for 2017 World Games.[5]
  • AsiaThe 2015 and 2016 Asian Kickboxing Championships acted consecutively, as stage one and stage two for the Asian qualifications of the 2017 World games.Stage one was held from the 1st till the 9th of August 2015 in Pune, India.[6]

    • The 2016 Asian Kickboxing Championships K1 Rules (stage two of the qualifications) were held over three days in Cheongju, Korea during October 2016, by the Asian Kickboxing Confederation (WAKO Asia) on the occasion of the Cheongju World Martial Arts Masterships with the participation of 16 member federations which competed in 12 weight categories.[7]

    EuropeThe European championships which was held from the 23 to 30 October 2016 in Maribor, Slovenia, was part of the K1 WAKO qualifying system for The World Games 2017.[8]
    Pan AmericaThe Pan American championships were held in Cancun, Mexico, from October 26 to 29, 2016.The event was the Pan American qualifications for the World Games organized by the International World Games Association (IWGA) in July 2017, in Wroclaw, Poland.[9] The American Continent has the right for 18 vacancies in 12 official categories at K1 Rules (8 for men and 4 for women) for the IWGA World Games 2017.

    Venue

    The Orbita Hall located in Wroclaw hosted martial arts during The World Games 2017.[10]

    Medalists

    Men

    Light welterweight
    −63.5 kg

    Orfan Sananzade
    Aleksandar Konovalov
    Muhamet Deskaj
    Welterweight
    −67 kg

    Slobodan Mijailović
    Jason Hinds
    Wojciech Kazieczko
    Light middleweight
    −71 kg

    Vitalii Dubina
    Bogdan Shumarov
    Itai Gershon
    Middleweight
    −75 kg

    Zakaria Laaouatni
    Michał Ronkiewicz
    Datsi Datsiev
    Light heavyweight
    −81 kg

    Aleksandar Menković
    Aleksandar Petrov
    Omar Boyd
    Cruiserweight
    −86 kg

    Dawid Kasperski
    Mesud Selimović
    Omid Nosrati
    Heavyweight
    −91 kg

    Igor Darmeshkin
    Mateusz Pluta
    Pavel Voronin
    Super heavyweight
    +91 kg

    Hamdi Saygılı
    Roman Holovatiuk
    Michał Turyński

    Women


    −52 kg

    Anna Poskrebysheva
    Monika Chochlíková
    Tam Si Long

    −56 kg

    Sandra Mašková
    Seda Duygu Aygün
    Małgorzata Dymus

    −60 kg

    Marta Waliczek
    Melissa Martínez Aceves
    Nabila Tabit

    −65 kg

    Sarel de Jong
    Teodora Manić
    Veronika Cmárová

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Qualifications. theworldgames.org. 2017-02-05. 2016-08-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20160803111058/https://www.theworldgames.org/the-world-games/wroclaw-poland-2017/qualifications. dead.
    2. Web site: Sports program Wrocław 2017. theworldgames2017.com. 2017-02-05. 2018-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20181115222347/https://theworldgames2017.com/en/about-the-world-games-2017/disciplines/. dead.
    3. Web site: Kickboxing. wakoweb.com. 2017-02-07. 2017-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20171029065223/http://www.wakoweb.com/en/news/information-about-world-games-2017/6116da5d-3ae0-44e7-b071-89a123757394. dead.
    4. Web site: Information about World Games 2017. 2017-02-07. 2017-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20171029065223/http://www.wakoweb.com/en/news/information-about-world-games-2017/6116da5d-3ae0-44e7-b071-89a123757394. dead.
    5. Web site: African Qualifications2016. 2017-02-15. 2017-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20170216043408/http://www.wakoweb.com/en/news/important-information-about-african-kickboxing-championships/99ced675-8683-43b1-b797-906330d034de. dead.
    6. Web site: Asian qualifications 2015 .
    7. Web site: Asian qualifications 2016 .
    8. Web site: WAKO EC Maribor 2016 - Wako European.
    9. Web site: 9º Pan-American Kickboxing Championships - Cancun is ready. 2017-03-01. 2017-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20170301183141/http://www.wakoweb.com/en/news/9-pan-american-kickboxing-championships-cancun-is-ready/11f0c901-8e2f-48c2-9a21-3df2afaff19c. dead.
    10. Web site: World games 2017 - Orbita Hall .

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