2015
QUALIFICATION FOR BAKU 2015 EUROPEAN GAMES
Karate competition in Baku 2015 European Games will start in two months (13-14 June).
The 1st European Games will be held in Baku (Azerbaijan) and will be the inaugural edition of the European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes representing the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of Europe. It will feature over 6,000 athletes from 50 NOCs competing in 20 sports. Karate events will consist of 10 ind. kumite events and 2 ind. kata events. Europe’s best performing athletes - 48 men and 48 women - will showcase their talents on the strikingly beautiful tatami of Crystal Hall in Baku.
Men's categories: Kumite -60kg, -67kg, -75kg, -84kg, +84kg and kata
Women's categories: Kumite -50kg, -55kg, -61kg, -68kg, +68kg and kata
Qualification places was determined based on rankings during the 50th European Championships (Istanbul, Turkey). Each category will have a total of 8 athletes. Six of them qualified among the first 6 places were awarded to the first six of the ranking of European championships (first seven, in case an athlete from Azerbaijan was among the first six). One place is then allocated to Azerbaijan as the host country and the 8th place is allocated to universality. You can have more information about qualification on eurolympic.org: http://www.eurolympic.org/images/baku-sports/Karate.pdf
Please find below the list of competitors that qualified in the EKF Senior Championships in Istanbul. Very soon the allocation of universality places will be decided as well.
FEMALE
KATA
1- Sandra Sanchez Jaime SPAIN
2- Dilara Bozan TURKEY
3- Jasmin Bleul GERMANY
4- Veronika Miskova CZECH REPUBLIC
5- Sandy Scordo FRANCE
6- Vlatka Kiuk CROATIA
-50 kg
1- Bettina Plank AUSTRIA
2- Alexandra Recchia FRANCE
3- Duygu Bugur GERMANY
4- Serap Ozcelik TURKEY
5- Monika Berulec CROATIA
6- Kateryna Kryva UKRAINE
-55 kg
1- Emilie Thouy FRANCE
2- Tuba Yakan TURKEY
3- Jennifer Warling LUXEMBOURG
4- Cristina Ferrer Garcia SPAIN
5- Branka Arandjelovic SERBIA
6- Jelena Kovacevic CROATIA
-61 kg
1- Lucie Ignace FRANCE
2-Ana Lenard CROATIA
3-Ingrida Suchankova SLOVAKIA
4- Irene Colomar Costa SPAIN
5- Merve Coban TURKEY
6- Tjasa Ristic SLOVENIA
-68 kg
1- Alisa Buchinger AUSTRIA
2- Elena Quirici SWITZERLAND
3- Marina Rakovic MONTENEGRO
4- Cristina Vizcaino Gonzalez SPAIN
5- Vassiliki Panetsidou GREECE
6- Hafsa Seyda Burucu TURKEY
+68 kg
1- Masa Martinovic CROATIA
2- Meltem Hocaoglu TURKEY
3- Helena Kuusisto FINLAND
4- Nadege Ait Ibrahim FRANCE
5- Ivanna Zaytseva RUSSIA
6- Hana Antunovic SWEDEN
MALE
KATA
1- Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila SPAIN
2- Mehmet Yakan TURKEY
3- Vu Duc Minh Dack FRANCE
4- Mattia Busato ITALY
5- Tural Baljanli AZERBAIJAN
6- Christopher Rohde DENMARK
7- Pasi Hirvonen FINLAND
-60 kg
1- Luca Maresca ITALY
2- Sofiane Agoudjil FRANCE
3- Evgeny Plakhutin RUSSIA
4- Matias Gomez Garcia SPAIN
5- Marko Antic SERBIA
6- Emil Pavlov FYR OF MACEDONIA
-67 kg
1- Niyazi Aliyev AZERBAIJAN
2- Burak Uygur TURKEY
3- Danil Domdjoni CROATIA
4- Manuel Rasero Ruiz SPAIN
5- Yves Martial Tadissi HUNGARY
6- Steven Dacosta FRANCE
7- Ricardo Giegler GERMANY
-75 kg
1- Rafael Aghayev AZERBAIJAN
2- Noah Bitsch GERMANY
3- Luigi Busa ITALY
4- Ruslans Sadikovs LATVIA
5- Erman Eltemur TURKEY
6- Logan Da Costa FRANCE
7- Illya Nikulin UKRAINE
-84 kg
1- Nello Maestri ITALY
2- Aykhan Mamayev AZERBAIJAN
3- Kenji Grillon FRANCE
4- Ugur Aktas TURKEY
5- Alvin Karaqi R KOSOVO
6- Georgios Tzanos GREECE
7- Yaroslav Horuna UKRAINE
+84 kg
1- Slobodan Bitevic SERBIA
2- Enes Erkan TURKEY
3- Martin Nestorovski FYR OF MACEDONIA
4- Jonathan Horne GERMANY
5- Filipe Reis PORTUGAL
6- Spyridon Margaritopoulos GREECE
Source: www.wkf.net