The 4th Karate 1 (over 5) of the year 2022 begins tomorrow September 2 in Baku. Among the 400 athletes registered, many elite’s ones.

Olympic champion and two-time world champion Steven Da Costa and Sandra Sanchez Jaime, two-time world champion Iryna Zaretska, World champions Badawy, Arkania… will be in Azerbaijan until Sunday in contention for the title of Grand Winner. All you need to follow the tournament.

By Ludovic Mauchien / Photo: Karatepixglobal

Elite to meet in Baku !

There won’t be many people missing in Baku for this 4th K1 of 2022, but… Rafael Aghayev, a priori focused on Karate Combat. Luigi Busa is not in Azerbaijan either.

Apart from them, everyone is on the edge, including the Iranians, absent from competitions since the Worlds. Japanese, Ukrainians, Brazilians, Egyptians, Turks, Italians, Germans, French, Spaniards… have ants in their legs. For most of them, the last competition dates back to May. With Olympism, they had lost the habit of spending 3 months without a fight. So, of course, it itches...

Some names ? Sanchez Jaime, Arkania, Da Costa, Terliuga, Zaretska, Horuna, Jumaa, Ahlam, Badawy, the Kvesic brothers, Xenos, Seck… The show is coming !

The program

Friday 2^nd

Eliminations (round robin), ¼ and ½ finals: Kata F, -50 kg, -55 kg, -60 kg, -67 kg, -75 kg

Saturday 3^rd

Eliminations (round robin), ¼ and ½ finals: Kata M, -84 kg, +84 kg, -61 kg, -68 kg, +68 kg

Sunday 4^th

Matches for bronze (10 a.m.-2:10 p.m.) and finals (3:35 p.m.-6 p.m.)

How to follow the K1 Baku

On Karate-K.com of course with a daily summary of the competition

On the WKF YouTube channel for the round robin. For the finals, it depends on TV broadcast.