| Kickboxing at the 2017 World Games | |
|---|---|
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| Venue | Orbita Hall |
| Dates | 26–27 July 2017 |
| Competitors | 95 from 31 nations |
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]
Qualifications for the World Games 2017 were held at the WAKO Continental Championships that were organized by each WAKO Continental Federation/ Confederation as follows:
To ensure that all Continents will be represented by the best athletes in each weight class, athletes will be selected as follows:
The remaining one place in each weight class will be split evenly to 6/6 as follows:
The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for kickboxing at the 2017 World games:
The 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]
The 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]
The 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]
The 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.
The Orbita Hall located in Wroclaw hosted martial arts during The World Games 2017. [10]
Austria (2)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
Brazil (5)
Bulgaria (2)
Canada (2)
China (1)
Croatia (4)
Czech Republic (2)
France (1)
Great Britain (1)
Iran (6)
Israel (1)
Italy (3)
Jordan (2)
Kazakhstan (2)
Kyrgyzstan (1)
Mauritius (1)
Mexico (2)
Moldova (4)
Morocco (8)
Netherlands (1)
Poland (11)
Russia (7)
Serbia (6)
Slovakia (4)
Sweden (1)
Tajikistan (1)
Tunisia (1)
Turkey (3)
Ukraine (5)
United States (4)| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light welterweight −63.5 kg | Ukraine Orfan Sananzade | Serbia Aleksandar Konovalov | Croatia Muhamet Deskaj |
| Welterweight −67 kg | Serbia Slobodan Mijailović | Canada Jason Hinds | Poland Wojciech Kazieczko |
| Light middleweight −71 kg | Ukraine Vitalii Dubina | Bulgaria Bogdan Shumarov | Israel Itai Gershon |
| Middleweight −75 kg | France Zakaria Laaouatni | Poland Michał Ronkiewicz | Russia Datsi Datsiev |
| Light heavyweight −81 kg | Serbia Aleksandar Menković | Bulgaria Aleksandar Petrov | United States Omar Boyd |
| Cruiserweight −86 kg | Poland Dawid Kasperski | Bosnia and Herzegovina Mesud Selimović | Iran Omid Nosrati |
| Heavyweight −91 kg | Russia Igor Darmeshkin | Poland Mateusz Pluta | Moldova Pavel Voronin |
| Super heavyweight +91 kg | Turkey Hamdi Saygılı | Ukraine Roman Holovatiuk | Poland Michał Turyński |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
−52 kg | Russia Anna Poskrebysheva | Slovakia Monika Chochlíková | China Tam Si Long |
−56 kg | Czech Republic Sandra Mašková | Turkey Seda Duygu Aygün | Poland Małgorzata Dymus |
−60 kg | Poland Marta Waliczek | Mexico Melissa Martínez Aceves | Morocco Nabila Tabit |
−65 kg | Netherlands Sarel de Jong | Serbia Teodora Manić | Slovakia Veronika Cmárová |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poland | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Serbia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Ukraine | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Russia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Turkey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | Bulgaria | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Slovakia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mexico | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Croatia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Iran | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Moldova | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Morocco | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (20 entries) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 | |
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