Approximately 1 hour transmission from the 4th European Kyokushin Karate Championships was broadcasted on Eurosport TV on 28 February.

 

According to the official website, EUROSPORT is the most widely available channel in Europe, reaching over 95 million homes and 250 million viewers in 54 countries! Incredibly, over 96% of Eurosport's viewers can watch their favourite sports in their native language. Programs are simultaneously broadcasted in the following 18 European languages: German, English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Czech, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Norwegian, Turkish and Greek.

     On February 8th a new board of Norwegian Kyokushin Karate Organization has been chosen.

New president is Shihan Lars Hogquist (5 dan)
e-mail: lars.hogquist@c2i.net
tel.: +47 67 90 68 60
mob.: +47 90 73 94 73
website: www.nkk.as
address: Roykaas terrasse 112, 1476 Rasta, NORWAY

     During the  European Championships in Warsaw 1 hour TV coverage was recorded. It included the most important events of the championships. Commentator was shihan Lesław Samitowski from Chicago and TV presenter was Mr. A. Kwiatek from Tele 5.
     The coverage was shown on Polish digital platform Tele 5 on November 29^th (Monday) and repeated on 30^th November (Tuesday). Also short reports on Polish TV stations: TVP2, TVP3 and TVN have been shown.

Organiser of the Championships is preparing the DVD, which will be available to buy in the next few weeks.

      On November 27th in the Sports-Hall Torwar in Warsaw 4th European Open Category Championships under honorary patronage of the President of Poland were held. There ware 88 competitors from 19 countries. More than 5000 spectators came to see the Championships. The Polish Kyokushin Karate Organization was an organizer. The main judge  was shihan Antonio Pinero (7 dan). The honourable guest of the championships was the member of International Committe IC IKO shihan Loek Hollander (8 dan).

      The official opening of the 4th European Open Category Championships in the name of the President Aleksander Kwasniewski executed the chairman of Polands Olympian Committe Mr Stefan Paszczyk.

During the championships a One Match Fight between Poland and Japan was held.

The World's Strongest Man 2003, Mariusz Pudzianowski was a special quest of the championships and gave a demonstration of his unique skills and strenght.

The tournament draw, detailed results and photos were being updated LIVE from Warsaw, Poland.

KUMITE MEN DRAW:  BLOCK A  BLOCK B  BLOCK C  BLOCK D

KUMITE MEN finals DRAW

KUMITE WOMEN DRAW

KUMITE SENIOR DRAW

-= RESULTS =-

GALLERY

Opening Ceremony	Kata	Eliminations Kumite Oldboy	Eliminations Kumite Woman
Eliminations Kumite Man	World's Strongest Man Demonstration	One Match Fight	Semi-finals
Finals	Awards handing ceremony	Sayonara	Training with Japanese Guests

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Poland vs Japan One Match Fight
gallery	Ewa Pawlikowska age: 29 grade: 2 dan height: 164 cm weight: 55 kg World Champion '97 '98 '03 European Champion '96 '00 '01 '02 American Champion '99 '00 '01 '02 '04 Polish Champion '96'97'98'99'00'01'02'03	VS	Natsumi Iwai age: 24 grade: 1 dan height: 157 cm weight: 55 kg Japanese Champion '02 '03 '04 Asian Champion '01	gallery
Winner: Ewa Pawlikowska - Poland
gallery	Piotr Moczydlowski age: 22 grade: 2 kyu height: 174 cm weight: 70 kg European Champion '04 Polish Champion '02 '03 German Champion '03	VS	Masafumi Tagahara age: 39 grade: 3 dan height: 162 cm weight: 69 kg World Champion '01 Best Technique Award 8WOKT '04 Japanese Champion '96 '00	gallery

Winner: Masafumi Tagahara - Japan