We are pleased to announce IFK Algeria has been formed.
We welcome Mr. Said Medjahed Abdelmalek as the Country Representative and we hope he is successful in growing our federation within his country.
SAID MEDJAHED ABDELMALEK
SIDI ABDELLI TLEMCEN ALGERIA
MOB. TEL: (00213)658654523
E-MAIL: saidmedjaheifk@gmail.com
Dear All
We are happy to announce IFK Morocco to our Federation.
Please welcome Mr Mohamed Echaara who will be the Country Representative.
His details are added to the website:
235 Av Kaboul Bloc B ETG 3 Apprt 7
Tetouan, Morocco
Email: frmkck@gmail.com
IFK REUNION ISLAND took 1st place in 4 categories, 2nd place in 4 categories and 3rd place in 1 category in the first WAKKU virtual online Kata World Championships
Gold: 4 competitors
Noham Gonthier men beginner under 7
Ambre Beauvoir women intermediate 16-17 years old
Natacha Randrante adult woman advanced
Clément Payet adult men advanced
Silver: 4 competitors
Angel Mourouvin men beginner under 7
Arthur Tatel men beginner 7-9 years old
Thalia Ramassamy women beginner 16-17 years old
Morgane Pistarino women intermediate 16-17 years old
Bronze: 1 competitor
Victorio Rakoto men beginner 7-9 years old
Those who ‘ve been in the top 8 :
Hugo Hoareau (4e)
Mael Fung Kwok Chine (8e)
Mélanie Sanassy Vally (5e)
Kim Dao and IFK REUNION take 3rd place among more than 18 countries who take part in this event.
Dear IFK family,
At this challenging time, where we are all faced with differing levels of adversity, it seems an appropriate
opportunity to pause and reflect – a moment to evaluate many areas of our lives and how we live them.
During these unprecedented times, like all families, we shall be at some point, close to, or directly
impacted, by the tragic nature that surrounds the COVID pandemic. It is during these times that we can
draw on the spirit of our Kyokushin upbringing and apply Mas Oyma’s principles – not least of all, that
‘introspection begets wisdom’. We may also draw on the Kyokushin principles of ‘patience, endurance
and perseverance’.
Many IFK countries, have in their lifetime, experienced natural disasters and war – their spirit and resolve
has ensured their survival and enabled them to gather and rebuild. This epidemic is a very serious crisis
for us all, a ‘new’ normal will eventually ensue and we shall move forward. It is without doubt that our
life, including karate, will be shaped and influenced by these current times - we will need to adapt in order
to progress.
The IFK Board are standing firm with you all in this time of difficulty and we are trying to offer support,
wherever possible, to our Country Representatives, their instructors and students. Obviously national
and international events have been suspended but we are confident that eventually we will continue our
work in promoting Kyokushin Karate under the IFK banner.
We thank you all for your continued support and hard work at many levels – take care and be safe.
Liam Keaveney (7th Dan)
For and on behalf of the IFK Board
28th April 2020
We are pleased to announce the IFK World Kata Championships will be held in Papendal, Netherlands, on the 27th April 2019.
This event will be for adult and U18 participants selected by their IFK Country Representatives.
All details will be loaded onto the event website shortly.
The IFK will also hold an International Seminar at the Papendal Sportscentre from 24th April - 26th April. This seminar is for all styles and not restricted to only IFK.
Seminar participants must be a minimum of 6th Kyu and 14 years old. Any U18 student who attends the camp with a responsible adult in charge.
With deep sadness we announce the passing of the Christian Nugent the Country Representative of the Reunion Islands.
Originally a Godan in Shotokan Christian joined the IFK in 2013 working with the representative in Mauritius to integrate into the organisation he became a Nidan in Kyokushin in 2016.
Our condolences are with the family at this difficult time.
1958-2018
RIP
A new year, a new start, and way to go. The IFK wishes you all a successful and glorious New Year!
WHAT A SHOW!
As the IFK reflect on the success of the 3rd KWU World Championships in Ekaterinburg we can only marvel at the work of the organisers.
This event has set the bar as to where we would aim to be if we achieved Olympic status and it shows we are more than capable of doing it. The opening ceremony was an extravaganza of colour and sound that brought the stadium to life and we thank both the organisers and the creative directors for their vision.
This 3rd edition of the championships showed the KWU is learning from their mistakes in the past. Competitor check-in procedures were slicker, judging seminars focused on the main issues and as in so many events we didn't witness lots of long speeches by the dignitaries. The athletes were the stars and they rightly took centre stage.
242 competitors from 48 countries meant the majority of the weight categories had solid participation.
Of course the KWU could achieve much higher numbers by allowing more than one participant from a country in each division but this would defeat their aim. We all hold our own championships with our own rules, weights and participation levels. This must be different, the five kilogram categories are suitable for an Olympic programme and as with the other combat sports we follow the example of one athlete per country.
It is interesting to note that for Karate in the 2020 Olympics it is scheduled for each of the six weight categories to have a maximum of 10 athletes only. At the KWU Championships thirteen of fifteen categories achieved more than that number.
Focusing on the performance of the IFK once again we must be proud to have played a major role in its success. We had 52 fighters from 17 countries and topped the medal table with 6 different countries achieving prizes.
Of course our major contributor was the top team in the championships Russia, but we also gained medals from Great Britain, Ireland, Iran, Belarus and an amazing gold from Greece!
Emma Markwell - Silver medal winner
Maria Papadopoulou - Gold medal winner
Time to be United!
Congratulations to Shihan David Pickthall who was promoted to 7th Dan by Hanshi Steve Arneil and the IFK Board at the recent World Tournament in Romania.
More information at http://gbkyokushinkai.com/newsblog/2017/7/18/david-pickthall-7th-dan-promotion
IFK Tunisia hosted the 3rd seminar under the guidance of Shihan David Pickthall and Sensei Moss Ageli.
The Seminar was split into three regions with sessions held in Sousse, Tunis and finishing in Kairouan course with a grading test. All seminars were well attended with between 120-180 students in each.
Thanks must go to Country representative Sensei Fethi Nasra and his team who worked tirelessly to make the seminars a great success.
We have completed the IFK Kuwait annual camp with Shihan Felix Ntumazah.
The camp was excellent, and Shihan Felix did everything possible to introduce to us his method of training and fighting strategy. The camp included different groups and other martial arts.
We also held All IFK juniors and girls sessions.
The 5th KWU Kyokushin Open World Youth Championship took place in Varna, Bulgaria on December 3-4, in beautiful Palace of Culture and Sport.
666 fighters from 33 countries fought for 32 sets of medals in 3 age groups – 12-13, 14-15 and 16-17 years old. The tournament's level of fighting, as compared to the previous Youth World Championship, has grown considerably. The girls and boys who won the right to hear the anthem of their country are a real strong future of Kyokushin karate.
Here are the pictures from winners ceremony, good emotions and happy faces, captured on photos by Andrey Kurtiy from superkarate.ru
The following is an extract of an article from KWU General Secretary, Sergey Suvorov, commenting on the inclusion of karate into the 2020 Olympics, discusses the prospect of KWU in this process.
Everyone knows that World Karate Federation WKF was repeatedly storming Olympic leadership for inclusion of karate in the programme of the Olympic Games and now, finally, the dream of the millions of karatekas all over the world came true and this kind of sports will be represented at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 year. I’d like to note immediately that this refers now only to the participation in Tokyo Olympics. There 4 more such sports as karate. This is the novation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and it deals with the reformatory strategy of the new IOC leadership and personally with the president Tomas Bach. Indeed, according to the Olympic Charter (in essence the charter of IOC) rotation of sports for every Olympics follows the principle one in – one out (one enters and another one exits the programme of the Olympic Games).However, the Olympic Session as the supreme authority has the right to solve any questions, which deal with development of Olympic movement, which was decided after the Olympic Games in Sochi-2014. Therefore, for participation in the programme of Games 2024 WKF will have to go through the difficult voting procedure again under the condition that the country-holder of the Olympic Games will nominate this kind of sports.
The 3rd IFK World Black Belt Seminar took place between 27th April and 1st May at the famous Papendal Olympic Sports Centre in the Netherlands.
Hanshi Steve Arneil along with his instructors Shihan's David Pickthall, Liam Keaveney, Alexander Taniushkin, Eddy Gabathuler, Janine Davies, Victor Fomin and Alexey Gorokhov hosted sessions on Kihon, Kata, Kumite and Weapons along with guest classes in BJJ and Krav Maga. Additionally, special guest instructor Shihan Semmy Schilt joined the group.
175 black belts from 21 countries participated with a final-day "kyu grade" open day.
Countries included:
Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, Iran, the Netherlands, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA.
The IFK want to thank the organising team led by Sensei Kevin van der Boor who have done a tremendous job to make this event run smoothly.
More pictures on our Facebook page
World Black Belt Seminar, April 30th 2016, Papendal Holland
The Organizing Committee of the 2nd KWU Kyokushin World Championship among men and women in weight categories held last October in Khabarovsk announces results of the doping testing.
During the Championship 56 Samples were taken from the athletes prize-winners to test them on usage of prohibited substances taken for better results. After all the necessary procedures involved in this process, decision made of the Supreme Judge of the 2nd KWU Kyokushin World Championship in Khabarovsk, by Shihan Yuri Trutnev are as follows...
Click here to see results
Anna Virabyan - World champion -55kg the 2nd KWU championship 2015
The IFK wishes Hanshi a Happy 81st Birthday.
We thank you for another year of your dedication to the teachings of Kyokushin.
IOnce again, we all owe an enormous debt of gratitude.
Osu!
The IFK U21 World Tournament was held on the 21st March in Greece.
Results are as follows
U14 GIRLS -35KG
1ST BURAVLEVA ALINA IFK RUSSIA
2nd MAMONOVA SVETLANA IFK RUSSIA
U14 GIRLS -40KG
1ST TSATINIAN MARIAM IFK GREECE
2nd SAKHAROVA ELBIRA IFK RUSSIA
3rd ADELE MANAMAL IFK REUNION ISLAND
U14 GIRLS -45KG
1ST NEUPOMNYASHCHIKH VIOLETTA IFK RUSSIA
2nd BAKHTUROVA VALERIIA IFK RUSSIA
3rd SOUMELIDOU SOTIRIA IFK GREECE
3rd ARVANITI NIKOLETA IFK GREECE
U14 GIRLS +45 KG
1ST GRABOR VLATISLAVA IFK RUSSIA
2nd BASHAKOVA EKATERINA IFK RUSSIA
3rd MISSIN EVANGELIA IFK GREECE
3rd VANJA STEVANOVIC IFK SERBIA
U14 BOYS -40KG
1ST KRUTOVSKI DANIIL IFK RUSSIA
2nd BOEV IAEOSLAV IFK RUSSIA
3rd LUCA MOLDOVAN IFK ROMANIA
3rd LOUIS ANDRE GOULAY IFK REUNION ISLAND
U14 BOYS -45KG
1ST FILIMONOV VIACHESLAV IFK RUSSIA
2nd ARTUR AREYAN KYOKUSHINKAN ARMENIA
3rd VASILIADIS XHRISTOS IFK GREECE
3rd DAVID KARAPETYAN KYOKUSHINKAN ARMENIA
U14 BOYS -50KG
1ST DYBSKII DENIS IFK RUSSIA
2nd BADIN DANIL IFK RUSSIA
3rd MATEI POPESCU IFK ROMANIA
3rd THOMOPOULOS PANAGIOTIS IFK GERMANY
U14 BOYS -55KG
1ST PISMEROV VADIM IFK RUSSIA
2nd ARTEM BOBKOV IKO MATSUSHIMA RUSSIA
3rd PARMAKIDIS DIMITRIS IFK GREECE
3rd ZILOTIN ANTON IFK RUSSIA
U14 BOYS +55KG
1ST PLATONOV ARTEM IFK RUSSIA
2nd ARTEM PETROV IFK RUSSIA
3rd SEMEN PERMINOV KYOKUSHINKAN GERMANY
U16 GIRLS -45KG
1ST VALERIA LOZANOVA KYOKUSHINKAN BULGARIA
2nd BALOBANOVA POLINA IFK RUSSIA
U16 GIRLS -50KG
1ST GUMENNYKH ANASTISIIA IFK RUSSIA
2nd KITTI KRIETL IFK HUNGARY
3rd MISHEL DANAVA IFK BULGARIA
3rd KOTENKO ELENA IFK RUSSIA
U16 GIRLS -55KG
1ST POZDEEVA NATALIIA IFK RUSSIA
2nd SHEMINA EKATERINA IFK RUSSIA
3rd KATA DEZSO IFK HUNGARY
3rd TOVA AXELASSON ALL JAPAN UNION SWEDEN
U16 GIRLS +55KG
1ST SUCHKOVA ELENA IFK RUSSIA
2nd AGNES WESTRIN ALL JAPAN UNION SWEDEN
3rd DUBROVSKAIA POLINA IFK RUSSIA
3rd YANA VAN GEENHOVEN RENGOKAI BELGIUM
U16 BOYS -55KG
1ST TRAPENIKOV VADIM IFK RUSSIA
2nd SAVIV DMITRII IFK RUSSIA
3rd MORENO NAN DE VOORT IFK NETHERLAND
3rd YAN TAN IFK KAZAKHSTAN
U16 BOYS -60KG
1ST SIEDIEV MURADKHAN IFK RUSSIA
2nd TEN ANATOLII IFK RUSSIA
3rd IONUT AGHIR IFK ROMANIA
3rd DAMIAN PRONK IFK NETHERLAND
U16 BOYS -65KG
1ST GINOSIAN GARIK IFK RUSSIA
2nd SOZAEV AMIRLAN IFK RUSSIA
3rd GEOGIOS GIAGIAS IFK GREECE
3rd STEPAN GRIGORYAN KYOKUSHINKAN ARMENIA
U16 BOYS -70KG
1ST GONCHAROV ARTEM IFK RUSSIA
2nd SHCHEKIN ILIA IFK RUSSIA
3rd TORGOM ASATRYAN KYOKUSHINKAN ARMENIA
3rd SAROGLOU GIANNIS IFK GREECE
U16 BOYS +70KG
1ST KONOVALOV VLADIMIR IFK RUSSIA
2nd NUNGESSER EDUARD IFK RUSSIA
3rd KOUTRAS CHRISTOS IFK GREECE
3rd DAVID VORREN IFK NORWAY
U18 GIRLS -58KG
1ST BOLSHAKOVA MARIIA IFK RUSSIA
2nd RAFAELLA TSAKIRI IFK GREECE
3rd LARA SEYDEL WIBK GERMANY
3rd MARINE BARSEGHYAN KYOKUSHINKAN ARMENIA
U18 GIRLS +58KG
1ST MARKOVA POLINA IFK RUSSIA
2nd VDOVINA EKATERINA IFK RUSSIA
3rd VIKTORIA KREITL IFK HUNGARY
3rd GAUCH CHANTAL IFK SWITZERLAND
U18 BOYS -68KG
1ST NESTEROV EGOR IFK RUSSIA
2nd TUMASHEV IVAN IFK RUSSIA
3rd MYKOLA MATEROSIAN KYOKUSHINKAN ARMENIA
3rd STRATOS GIOURAS IFK GREECE
U18 BOYS -78KG
1ST BEZRUKOV ALEXANDER IFK RUSSIA
2nd BOTVINNIKOV ILYA IFK RUSSIA
3rd KIRILL KOLYASNIKOV IFK KAZAKHSTAN
3rd NAREK ABOYAN KYOKUSHINKAN ARMENIA
U18 BOYS +78KG
1ST GRACHEV ALEKSANDR IFK RUSSIA
2nd BEZMATERNYKH NIKITA IFK RUSSIA
3rd CVETELIN SPASOV IFK BULGARIA
U21 LADIES - 60KG
1ST DORONINA KSENIA IFK RUSSIA
2nd HAYLEY BETH ROWLANDS IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd MAVROUDI SOFIA IFK GREECE
3rd FILINOVA VALENTINA IFK RUSSIA
U21 LADIES +60KG
1ST PAPADOPOULOU MARIA IFK GREECE
2nd IGNATEVA OLGA IFK RUSSIA
3rd KOLESMIKOVA VALERIIA IFK RUSSIA
3rd CHELSEA KERLDAAN IFK NETHERLAND
U21 MENS -70KG
1ST GRIBKOV ALEKSANDR IFK RUSSIA
2nd DROZD ALEXANDER IFK RUSSIA
3rd DAWID OZGA IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd ADEM AYSUN IFK BULGARIA
U21 MENS -80KG
1ST JONAS ROSIN ALL JAPAN UNION SWEDEN
2nd NATHAN WILLIAM IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd LUKE BALDWIN IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd FOMENKO MARK IFK RUSSIA
U21 MENS +80KG
1ST KONDRATEV ANDREI IFK RUSSIA
2nd ARAMIAN GNEL IFK RUSSIA
3rd IGOR ANGALD KYOKUSHINKAN GERMANY
3rd HRISTO ILIEV IFK BULGARIA
CLICKER TEAM
1ST GREAT BRITAIN A
2nd SWITZERLAND A
3rd GREAT BRITAIN B
3rd SWITZERLAND B
U16 CLICKER BOYS -160CM
1ST AARON SHEEHAN IFK GREAT BRITAIN
2nd OLIVER FATHERS IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd AARON JANKA IFK SWITZERLAND
3rd NATHAN SAMMY IFK GREAT BRITAIN
U16 CLICKER BOYS +160CM
1ST LUKE STUBBS IFK GREAT BRITAIN
2nd EGGER MSVERICK IFK SWITZERLAND
3rd DYLAN BALDWIN IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd CONOR FITZPATRICK IFK IRELAND
U16 CLICKER GIRLS -160CM
1st STACEY MILENTIJEVIC IFK GREAT BRITAIN
2nd SOPHIE HOBBS IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd JAMIE MAY ROWLANDS IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd FABIA SCHONENBERGER IFK SWITZERLAND
U16 CLICKER GIRLS +160CM
1st ELENA EDWARDS IFK GREAT BRITAIN
2nd REMMI AZIZ IFK GREAT BRITAIN
3rd JOLEIN ODERMATT IFK SWITZERLAND
3rd KAYLEY MORRIS IFK GREAT BRITAIN
MOST SPIRITED FIGHTER: MARIA PAPADOPOULOU (IFK GREECE)
FASTEST KO: ARAMIAN GNEL (17 SECONDS) (IFK RUSSIA)
BEST TECHNIQUE: JONAS ROSIN (ALL JAPAN UNION SWEDEN)
CHIEF REFEREE KYOKUSHIN RULES: SHIHAN ALEX KERRIGAN
CHIEF REFEREE CLICKER: SHIHAN RAY BOND
Representatives of National Federations, who have passed national qualifying championships with calling in all interested Kyokushin groups in a particular country at age 18 years and above, with a style qualification not less than 4th kyu are able to participate in the World Championship.
The time and place of the National Qualifying championships are defined jointly by the representatives of the international organsations listed in the "Members" section on www.kwunion.com
Many years dedicated to Kyokushin. We wish Hanshi Arneil happy 80th birthday!
We, in Kyokushin, owe you a debt of gratitude. Osu!
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