On March 22-23, 2008 the Ukrainian Weight Category Championships took place in the city of Kiev.
   180 competitors and 2500 spectators gathered at the event, which was a selection for the European Championships in Spain. Several meetings with representatives of clubs and regions had place during this championships.
   Organizer was Ukrainian Kyokushin Karate Organisation led by Shihan Stanislav Blizniuk.

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   On April 5-6 in Chiba, Japan the weekend of "International Karate Friendship" took place.
   The 7th Women's World Karate Championships, The 4th International Youth Karate Championships, 2008 International Senior Karate Championships, 2008 International Kata Championships were organised by IKO Kyokushinkaikan.
    Kancho Shokei Matsui opened the event, which gathered 1610 competitors from 20 countries and couple thousands of spectators. IKO Special Advisor Shihan Yuzo Goda as well as Sensei Kyosuke Machida were present at the event. 
   Former World Champion Hitoshi Kiyama lead the warming-up Kihon session for all the competitors.  International Department Director Shihan Katsuhito Gorai lead the judges seminar, were most of the european country representatives, including EKKO General Secretary Shihan Andre Drewniak took part.

Category -55kg
1. Elena Vorobiova - Russia
2. Miruyo Ito - Japan
3. Miyoko Kimura - Japan
3. Ayaka Shibuya - Japan

Category -65kg
1. Anastasia Khripunova - Russia
2. Dobroslawa Soltysik - Poland
3. Tetyana Fida - Ukraine
3. Proletina Koeva - Bulgaria

Category +65kg
1. Anna Kopyrina - Russia
2. Danaila Cherneva - Bulgaria
3. Agnieszka Sypien - Poland
3. Alina Aldatova - Russia

KATA WOMEN:

1. Miruyo Ito - Japan
2. Gergana Kostova - Bulgaria
3. Mayya Bragina - Russia
4. Izabela Sularz - Poland
5. Kristyna Dolgaleva - Russia
6. Aleksandra Radziewicz - Poland

KATA MEN:

1. Shota Takahashi - Japan
2. Masahiko Hatsukawa - Japan
3. Takamasa Tanaka - Japan
4. Maxim Talavla - Russia
5. Andrey Vasilevskiy - Russia
6. Emil Slabon - Poland

INTERNATIONAL SENIOR KARATE CHAMPIONSHIPS: 

Kumite Master +35 yr. Open Weight
1. Oleg Vekshin(Russia)
2. Kanya Moritomo(Japan)

Kumite  35～39 yr. -70kg
1. Minoru Ito (Japan)
2. Davoud Yousefi (Iran)
3. Kosei Baba (Japan)
3. Toshio Yasuike (Japan)

Kumite 35～39 yr. -80kg
1. Kazuhiko Kawase (Japan)
2. Stanislav Kryvoshapka (Ukraine)
3. Gou Hasegawa (Japan)
3. Toshiya Horii (Japan)

Kumite 35～39 yr. +80kg
1. Ghasem Sadeghi Hasnijeh (Iran)
2. Sergey Klochkov (Russia)
3. Ivan Ivanov (Bulgaria)
3. Joo-Hyun Kim (Korea)

Kumite +40yr. -70kg
1. Kazuhisa Kai (Japan)
2. Masamichi Hashimoto (Japan)
3. Fumihiro Kawaguchi (Japan)
3. Sugihiko Niizaki (Japan)

Kumite +40yr. -80kg
1. Takeshi Li (Japan)
2. Kouichi Akiyama (Japan)
3. Hiroki Oikawa (Japan)
3. Zbigniew Golinski (Poland)

Kumite  +40yr.  +80kg
1. Hideki Kuroiwa (Japan)
2. Bogdan Sawa (Poland)
3. Igor Timofeev (Russia)
3. Eric Snyders (South Africa)

   Like every year, the french magazine Karate-Bushido organized in Paris "Le festival des arts-martiaux", one of the most important show in the world of martial-arts.
   This year, in cooperation with IKO Honbu and the French Kyokushin Karate Organization, a special demonstration by top european fighters was presented. Alejandro Navarro (Spain), Lucian Gogonel (Romania), Krzysztof Habraszka (Poland), Zahari Damyanov (Bulgaria) and Julien Portiere (France) showed their special techniques breaking the boards and presenting their fighting combinations. Next, a mini tournament with exhibition matches took place, whe winner of which was current open category European Champion - Alejandro Navarro. Finally, Emil Kostov (Bulgaria) - former World Weight Category Champion made tameshiwari demonstration, breaking the ice blocks.
   Eurosport TV is planning to show a report from this event, which took place in Paris Bercy, on the evening of March 29.