The 6th. All UK Open Karate Tournament took place in Glasgow last Saturday April 13th. Teams from all over the UK took part along with Irish, Italian, Polish, German and Russian fighters. A team from the Irish Kyokushin Organisation's Clonmel Dojo was among those who fought. The Irish Kyokushin Organisation was represented by Lukasz Smykowski, Oliver Solarski, Antoni Horan, Filip Miklaszewski and Nicol Richter under Sensei Maciej Solarski. After some hard fought matches Nicol Richter took her place on the winner's podium with 2nd place in the Girls 8-9 years Kumite and Filip Miklaszewski earned the 3rd place trophy in the boys 12-13 years Kumite. Oliver Solarski, Lukasz Smykowski and Antoni Horan they fought very well, gaining new experience on their way of karate. Congratulations to all fighters who took part and well done to the some great results! OSU!

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On 24/03/2019 Friendly Meeting was held between KWF Armenia and KWF Georgia federations. Kyokushin Karate National Federation of Armennia with 80 members, accompanied by President Spartak Gasparyan, went to Georgia, where was held friendly meeting, seminar and master classes.

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On March 23 in Kiev, Ukraine in the sports complex of the National University of Physical Education and Sport of Ukraine was held the Open All-Ukrainian Championship «Kyokushin Junior Fighter»

Championship organizers: KWF Ukraine - Sensei Dmytro Nikolaiev.

March 24, 2019 at the Sport Arena in Tokyo, Chiba took place the international open tournament KWF Karate Grandprix with the participation of over 700 competitors, from 14 countries, fighting in 37 categories. The official opening was made on behalf of KWF by the General Secretary Andre Drewniak. The main judge was Shihan Yuichi Serizawa. Among the special guests were: KWU General Secretary Alexander Pichkunov, KWU Ramil Gobbasov, AKR Sergey Suvorov, representative of KWF Russia Sergei Soldatov, representative of KWF USA Leslaw Samitowski, representative of KWF Estonia Aleksei Korikov, representative of KWF Kazahstan Mukhtar Juldassov, representative of KWF China Noriyasu Hamai.

The organizer was the Japanese KWF Organization headed by shihan Noriyuki Tanaka.

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