The first day of the Karate 1 Lisbon saw many surprises but, above all, a moment of great happiness for the Egyptian Ali Elsawy. In the quest of his ticket for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, he obtained it by qualifying for the bronze medal while seeing Brazil’s Figueira losing in the first round.
By Florian Fournier
Photo : Kphotos
-60kg :
Final : Kalnins (Let) vs Alpysbair (Kaz)
Bronze : Assadilov (Kaz) vs Spitz (Swi) / Aboeitta (Egy) vs Crescenzo (Ita)
½ final : Alpysbair b. Assadilov, 1-1 / Kalnins b. Aboeitta, 4-4
Highlight of the day
3rd round : Kalnins b. Crescenzo, 2-1 / Sago b. Samdan , 0-0
¼ finals : Aboeitta b. Sago , 5-0 / Kalnins b. Saymatov, 2-0
Repechages : Crescenzo b. Saymatov, 0-0
-67kg :
Final : Da Costa (Fra) vs Almasatfa (Jor)
Bronze : Uygur (Tur) vs Alzahrani (Ksa) / El Sawy (Egy) vs Deniz (Tur)
In ½ final : Da Costa b. Uygur 1-0 / Almasatfa b. El Sawy 5-4
Highlights : Vinicius Figueira lost against Italian DeVivo (3-1) in the 1st round and will have to go through the Olympic qualification tournament to see Tokyo.
-75kg :
Final : Busa (Ita) vs Asgari (Ira)
Bronze : Horuna (Ukr) vs Harspataki (Hun) / Abdelaziz (Egy) vs Zhangbyr (Kaz)
In ½ final, Busa b. Zhangbyr 3-0 / Asgari b. Horuna 2-0
Main Results :
Horuna beat 7-1 Nishimura in ¼ de final.
-50kg :
Final : Tsukii (Phi) vs Zhangbyrbay (Kaz)
Bronze : Bahmanyar (Ira) vs Recchia (Fra) / Miyahara (Jap) vs Li (Chn)
½ final : Tuskii b. Recchia 2-0 / Zhangbyrbay b. Li 6-2
Main results : Recchia b. Serap Ozcelik 4-1 in 3rd round.
-55kg :
Final : Terliuga (Ukr) vs Attia (Egy)
Bronze : Messerschmidt (Ger) vs Cardin (Ita) / Yakan (Tur) vs Brunori (Ita)
½ final : Terliuga b. Messerschmidt 4-2 / Attia b. Yakan 8-0
Kata F
Final : Ono (Jap) vs Lau (Hkg)
Bronze : Bozan (Tur) vs Miskova (Cze) / Kokumai (Usa) vs Rodriguez (Esp)
