With Gomyo and Shimizu, a 3rd japanese is also in the final at the K1 Tokyo. One of the karate stars in Japan, Ken Nishimura assumes his rank and hopes to win the gold medal against the legend Rafael Aghayev on Sunday. For the rest of this first day in the Nippon Budokan of Tokyo, Recchia, Terliuga, Sanchez, Assadilov and Uygur reach the final too.

By Florian Fournier / Photos : Kphotos

For the last K1 before the summer, the European champion Alizee Agier of France won in -68 kg in Shanghai (June 7-9). With the silver medal of Alexandra Recchia and the 3 bronze medals of Mehdi Filali, Sabrina Ouihaddadène and Leïla Heurtault, the France team looks good. Assadilov wins its 4^th success in a row, Madera and Otabolaev their 1^st one. Aktas, Ozcelik and Terliuga won again and multiply podiums in 2019. Finals and results of the 2019 K1 Shanghaï (June 7-9).

By Florian Fournier
Photos : K-Photos

5th victory in a row for Darkhan Assadilov, 7th podium and 2^nd win in a row for Ugur Aktas! The Kazakh and Turkish confirmed their excellent shape at the Montreal SeriesA (June 21-23), as did the Japanese team, which made a new raid with 11 medals, including 4 gold medals.

By Florian Fournier
Photos / Kphotos

3 finals out of 3 possible in the women categories. The Chinese fighters (Yin, Gong and Gao) showed who were the bosses during this 2nd day of the K1 Shanghai. The Iranian team offers us a 100% Persian final in the heavyweight division between Abazari and Ganjzadeh. Great it will be ! As will certainly be the final between the World champion Kvesic and the World N°1 and European champion Aktas (-84 kg)…

By Ludovic Mauchien

Photo : Kphotos