W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 (Bucharest)

W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 in Bucharest
Information
Promotion	W.A.K.O. F.R.A.M.C.
Date	27 November – 1 December
Venue	Polyvalent Hall
City	Bucharest, Romania
Event chronology
W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 (Ankara) W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 in Bucharest

W.A.K.O. European Championships 2012 in Bucharest were the joint twenty-three European kickboxing championships held by the W.A.K.O. organization arranged by the Romanian Full-Contact Martial Arts Federation (F.R.A.M.C.) president Dorel Bulearcă. The first event was held the previous month in Ankara, Turkey. It was the first W.A.K.O. event to be held in Bucharest and Romania and involved over 550 amateur men and women from 35 countries across Europe.^[1]

There were four styles on offer at Bucharest: Full-Contact, Semi-Contact, Light-Contact and Musical Forms. Only one competitor per weight division were allowed to participate in the first three, while Musical Forms was allowed two maximum per country.^[1]

The top nation by the end of the championships was Russia, with Italy in second and Hungary in third. The winners of the Full-Contact and Semi-Contact events qualified for the World Combat Games 2013.^[1]

The event was held over five days at the Polyvalent Hall in Bucharest, Romania, starting on Tuesday, 27 November and ending on Saturday, 1 December 2012.^[1]

Full-Contact

Full-Contact is a form of kickboxing where the contestants can throw punches and kicks with full power at legal targets above the waist. Victories are usually gained via a point's decision or by referee stoppage and as with most other forms of amateur kickboxing, various head and body protection must be worn.^[2]

Men's Full-Contact Kickboxing Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Bantamweight -51 kg	Alexey Trifonov	Dimitri Shudolschi	Wojciech Peryt Çağrı Coşkun
Bantamweight -54 kg	Ilnaz Sayfullin	Çağdaş Yıkılmaz	Guillaume Oz-uzun Evgheni Ivanchenco
Featherweight -57 kg	Alexandr Shamray	Hüseyin Dündar	Artem Skobchenko Roberto Pizzagalli
Lightweight -60 kg	Vasily Zaytsev	Nurettin Diler	Kamel Bacha Damian Lawniczak
Light Welterweight -63.5 kg	Sergey Lipinetc	Gábor Garbics	Saidi William Kostyantin Demoretskyy
Welterweight -67 kg	Amansio Paraschiv	Oleg Zaytcev	Piotr Odwazny Davyd Ahakhanov
Light Middleweight -71 kg	Nikita Selyansky	Zsolt Benedek	Hallgeir Lien Gregor Stračanek
Middleweight -75 kg	Yusup Magomedbekov	Andreas Lodrup	Hünkar Kılıç Teo Mikelic
Light Heavyweight -81 kg	Samet Keser	Marian Makaveev	Vincent Grác Mariusz Niziołek
Cruiserweight -86 kg	Marco Deckmann	Ian Petrovich	Cristian Vedovelli Roman Hasparian
Heavyweight -91 kg	Eugen Waigel	Alexei Papin	Igor Prykhodko Dănuţ Hurduc
Super Heavyweight +91 kg	Emin Panian	Hamza Kendircioglu	Ivan Tkachenko Georgij Fibich

Women's Full-Contact Kickboxing Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight -48 kg	Valeria Calabrese	Rada Akulova	Hulya Allkayis Malene Feldt
Featherweight -52 kg	Sandra Drabik	Valentina Filatova	Funda Tiken Clarissa Oddi
Lightweight -56 kg	Tonje Sørlie	Dorota Godzina	Camilla Wiksten Veronika Petrikova
Middleweight -60 kg	Thea Therese Næss	Fatima Bokova	Ashley Brace Maneka Kissel
Light Heavyweight -65 kg	Cathrine Heggøy Fonnes	Ksenia Miroshnichenko	Nicole Trimmel Sema Fatma Okansoy
Heavyweight -70 kg	Nives Radic	Beata Leśnik	Lucie Mlejnkova Irina Gavrilova
Super Heavyweight +70 kg	Anna Gladkikh	Eda Sahin	Denitsa Boyanova Karolina Dziedzic

Semi-Contact

Semi-Contact is the least physical of the contact kickboxing styles available at W.A.K.O. events. It involves the participants throwing controlled strikes at targets above the waist, with point's scored on the basis of speed and technique with power prohibited. Despite the less physical nature all contestants must wear head and various body protection.^[3]

Men's Semi-Contact Kickboxing Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-57 kg	Davide Colla	László Varga	Vyacheslav Shcherbakov Ricardo Kremps
-63 kg	Richárd Veres	Adriano Passaro	Nick Ramael Dessie Leonard
-69 kg	Davide Sfulcini	Jay Daniels	Alex Veres Antonio Lo Prete
-74 kg	László Gömbös	Mark McDermott	Phillip Ruckdeschel Tilen Zajc
-79 kg	Tamás Imre	Dean Barry	Marco Nordio Emanuil Dimitrov
-84 kg	Robbie McMenamy	Roman Brandl	Neri Stella Dmitriy Iakovlev
-89 kg	Robert Knaseder	Bjorn Van Hoyweghen	David Firth Marco Bubba
-94 kg	Paolo Niceforo	Michel Decian	Primož Bračič Alexander Federer
+94 kg	Krisztian Jaroszkievicz	Chris Aston	Philipp Salugin Idris Ünver

Women's Semi-Contact Kickboxing Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-50 kg	Giulia Cavallaro	Mercédesz Veres	Bo Mangan Ebru Özmen
-55 kg	Luisa Gullotti	Nelly Hanicz	Valeriya Utkina Eirin Dale
-60 kg	Shauna Bannon	Gloria De Bei	Evelyn Neyens Adrienne Kadas
-65 kg	Caradh O'Donovan	Ina Grindheim	Carlotta Pra Andrea Busa
-70 kg	Henrietta Nagy	Amber Makaulauski	Maria Semenova Adelheid Rump
+70 kg	Irina Murashova	Anna Kondár	Gaynor Morgan Diletta Faiola

Team's Semi-Contact Kickboxing Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Hungary	Italy	Bulgaria Great Britain

Light-Contact

Light-Contact is a form of kickboxing that is less physical than Full-Contact but more so than Semi-Contact and is often seen as a transition between the two. Contestants score points on the basis of speed and technique over brute force although stoppages can occur, although as with other amateur forms head and body protection must be worn. Unfortunately, it is often in the shadow of the full contact styles.^[4]

Men's Light-Contact Kickboxing Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-57 kg	Kacper Narloch	Metin Adanç	Norbert Rizmayer Mahmoud Sheikh
-63 kg	Aleksandr Bakirov	Alex Crotti	Matthias Jenni Maciej Domińczak
-69 kg	Rustam Mirzoev	Nenad Manojlovski	Itay Gershon Maciej Garbaczewski
-74 kg	László Anda	Dimitar Gjorgiev	Alexey Lenberg Wojciech Niedzielski
-79 kg	Aivar Gafurov	Kamila Ruta	Andrei Costea Salvatore Mangiafico
-84 kg	Michał Mączka	Willmark Procida	Matej Engler Ghenadie Bitco
-89 kg	Dejan Vajs	Franz Gruber	Bogdan Nicolae Zamfir Cyprian Grzęda
-94 kg	Viktor Hargitai	Danilo Zaccone	Mihail Cârstea Patryk Zaborowski
+94 kg	Michał Wszelak	Peter Bayer	Daniel Alexandru Artem Vasylenko

Women's Light-Contact Kickboxing Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-50 kg	Żaneta Cieśla	Patricia Pulling	Plamena Tsigularova Valentina Cabras
-55 kg	Nicole Perona	Iwona Nieroda	Clara Lanuzel Victoria Usachenko
-60 kg	Paulina Frankowska	Albena Malcheva	Adriana Tricoci Isabela Kovačič
-65 kg	Anett Miskolczi	Ambre Lopez	Gordana Cvetkovska Lucia Cmarova
-70 kg	Marta Waliczek	Veronika Kohutova	Cristina Caruso Veronika Kohutova
+70 kg	Giulia Compagno	Denitsa Koleva	Kata Boros

Musical Forms

Musical Forms is a type of non-physical competition which sees the contestants fighting against imaginary foes using Martial Arts techniques. Unlike Full, Semi and Light-Contact kickboxing there were no weight divisions, only male and female competitions and competitors were allowed to compete in more than one category with some countries having than one athlete in each category. The men and women at Bucharest competed in four different styles explained below:

• Hard Styles – coming from Karate and Taekwondo.
• Soft Styles – coming from Kung Fu and Wu-Sha.
• Hard Styles with Weapons – using weapons such as Kama, Sai, Tonfa, Nunchaku, Bō, Katana.
• Soft Styles with Weapons - using weapons such as Naginata, Nunchaku, Tai Chi Chuan Sword, Whip Chain.^[5]

Men's Musical Forms Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Open Hand - Hard Style	Nikita Tsyganok	Denis Gavrilov	Alberto Leonardi
Open Hand - Soft Style	Ivan Baev	Linar Bagautdinov	Mihai Ioana
Weapons - Hard Style	Roman Chizhov	Denis Gavrilov	No bronze awarded
Weapons - Soft Style	Ivan Baev	Linar Bagautdinov	Slavko Majkić

Women's Musical Forms Medals Table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Open Hand - Hard Style	Elena Chirkova	Olga Kuskova	Kateryna Petenova
Open Hand - Soft Style	Veronika Dombrovskaya	Ekaterina Tuvaeva	Olga Timchenko
Weapons - Hard Style	Darya Danausova	Anna Likhonina	Elena Chirkova
Weapons - Soft Style	Veronika Dombrovskaya	Ekaterina Tuvaeva	Darya Masharo

Medal Table

Ranking	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Russia	18	15	9
2	Italy	12	6	13
3	Hungary	9	8	7
4	Poland	7	4	11
5	Ireland	4	5	4
6	Norway	3	2	2
7	Germany	3	0	4
8	Turkey	1	6	7
9	Great Britain	1	1	4
10	Belarus	2	0	1
11	Ukraine	1	0	9
12	Romania	1	0	6
13	Slovenia	1	0	5
14	Croatia	1	0	1
15	Austria	0	4	4
16	France	0	3	6
17	Bulgaria	0	3	4
18	Switzerland	0	2	2
19	Macedonia	0	2	1
20	Moldova	0	1	2
20	Belgium	0	1	2
20	Czech Republic	0	1	2
23	Slovakia	0	0	5
24	Israel	0	0	2
25	Denmark	0	0	1
25	Finland	0	0	1

See also

• List of WAKO Amateur European Championships
• List of WAKO Amateur World Championships
• List of male kickboxers
• List of female kickboxers

References

1. "Bucharest hosts European Kickboxing Championships for first time" (in Romanian). nineoclock.ro. 27 November 2012.
2. "WAKO Full contact Rules" (PDF). www.wakoweb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
3. "Semi-Contact Rules" (PDF). www.wakoweb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
4. "WAKO Light-Contact Rules" (PDF). www.wakoweb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
5. "WAKO Musical Forms Rules" (PDF). www.wakoweb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-02.

External links

• WAKO World Association of Kickboxing Organizations Official Site
• BUCHAREST EC: ALL OFFICIALS RESULTS, POOLS AND MEDALS TABLE