Men's K-1 at WAKO World Championships 2007 Belgrade -71 kg
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The men's light middleweight (71 kg/156.2 lbs
) K-1 category at the W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade
was the sixth lightest of the K-1 tournaments, involving twelve fighters all based in Europe
. Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under K-1
rules.
Due to the low amount of fighters for a sixteen-man tournament, four of the contestants had byes through to the quarter finals. The tournament winner was Belarus's
Dmitry Valent
who won gold by defeating his Russia
n opponent Rizvan Isaev. Semi finalists Djime Coulibaly from France
and Italian
Manuele Raini were rewarded for the efforts with bronze medals.
Pound (mass)
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the Imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement...
) K-1 category at the W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade
W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 (Belgrade)
W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade were the joint 16th edition of the W.A.K.O. world championships - the second event would be held later that year in Coimbra, Portugal. They were for amateur male and female kickboxers and covered the following categories; K-1, Low-Kick and Light-Contact...
was the sixth lightest of the K-1 tournaments, involving twelve fighters all based in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under K-1
K-1
K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...
rules.
Due to the low amount of fighters for a sixteen-man tournament, four of the contestants had byes through to the quarter finals. The tournament winner was Belarus's
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
Dmitry Valent
Dmitry Valent
Dmitry 'Black Valet' Valent is a Belarusian Muay Thai middleweight/super middleweight kickboxer fighting out of Minsk, Belarus for Gym "Kick Fighter". He is a ten time amateur and professional world champion who is known for his vicious elbows and explosive KO power...
who won gold by defeating his Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n opponent Rizvan Isaev. Semi finalists Djime Coulibaly from France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
Manuele Raini were rewarded for the efforts with bronze medals.
Results
See also
- List of WAKO Amateur World Championships
- List of WAKO Amateur European Championships
- List of male kickboxers
- List of kickboxing organizations