| Women's 72 kg at the 2019 European Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Minsk Sports Palace | ||||||||||||
| Date | 22 June | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 8 from 8 nations | ||||||||||||
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| Sambo at the 2019 European Games | ||
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| Men | Women | |
| 52 kg | 48 kg | |
| 57 kg | 52 kg | |
| 62 kg | 56 kg | |
| 68 kg | 60 kg | |
| 74 kg | 64 kg | |
| 82 kg | 68 kg | |
| 90 kg | 72 kg | |
| 100 kg | 80 kg | |
| +100 kg | +80 kg | |
The women's 72 kg sambo event at the 2019 European Games in Minsk was held on 22 June at the Minsk Sports Palace. [1]
Sambo is a Soviet martial art and combat sport. It originated in the Russian SFSR in Soviet Union. The word "SAMBO" is a portmanteau for samozashchita bez oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defence without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern, since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet NKVD and Red Army to improve hand-to-hand combat abilities of the servicemen. It was intended to be a merger of the most effective techniques of other martial arts.
Sambo competitions at the 2019 European Games were held on 22 and 23 June 2019 at the Minsk Sports Palace.
Minsk is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblasć) and Minsk District (rajon). The population in January 2018 was 1,982,444, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of its Executive Secretary.
