BRAGA – On the second day of competition, it was time for the teams to step up on the Tatami and prove their value. Thursday morning began with Team Kata, where the athletes revealed a lot of concentration and coordination. On the male side, the Japanese and French teams made their way to the […]
BRAGA – The 10th World University Karate Championship began yesterday with Kata’s trial, in which over 50 athletes stepped in the Tatami looking for the decisive final matches in the category. On the individual Kata competitions, Hiroki Kubo (Japan) and Mohammed El-Hanni (Morocco) were the ones who caught the passport for the male final […]
BRAGA – The Opening Ceremony of the 10th World University Karate Championship 2016 took place yesterday at Praça da República, in Braga, with a parade of 39 delegations watched closely by hundreds of people who did not want to miss the opening of this major international sport event. The city center of the Ibero-american […]
NYON – The sun was shining on Sunday, making it a beautiful day for this World Championship. The women opened the competition in the morning, with a very agitated lake. This challenging swim stage unfortunately resulted in a few athletes abandoning the race. The rest of the race however went very well, particularly for the […]
NYON – After a rainy afternoon, during which the delegations attended the official technical meeting, the sun was shining again in Nyon, just in time for the opening ceremony. The Esplanade des Marronniers, over-looking the lake and decorated with roman ruins, was a beautiful location for the launching of the first ever World Championship hosted […]
MISKOLC – Since the beginning of the 20th World University Orienteering Championship, Sweden was regularly favourite for the events held in the Hungarian forest, and on this closing day, this reputation was proved as deserved. In the men’s competition, Andersson, Sjöberg and Runesson, all medallist in the individual event won the men’s relay with […]
MISKOLC – This Wednesday, 113 men and 88 women were competing in Javorkut, 25km from downtown Miskolc, for the middle distance races. As planned, if Great Britain clearly dominated the sprint, Scandinavia and Sweden in particular remained the rulers of the forest in both gender. The men’s race consisted of a 5.6km course with […]
MISKOLC – Two days after the individual sprint races, this third day of the World University Orienteering Championship was dedicated to the mixed team sprint relay. Orienteering is often seen by the non-initiates as an obscure forest activity, but today, the street of the city of Miskolc turned into a giant playground for the 24 […]
