12th TRADITIONAL KARATE ITKF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

National team of Poland brought 7 medals from the 12th Traditional Karate ITKF World Championship, which were held on 8-9 October 2004 in Davos, Switzerland. In the event there participated 227 competitiors from 31 countries. Sensei Hidetaka Nihiyama was the official guest and the Chief Judge of the world championship.

Results:

  * Kata individual women:
1. Yuri Shirai – Italy
2. Katarzyna Krzywanska – Poland AKK Lodz
3. Anna Medvedeva – Ukraine
4. Adairce Castanhetti – Brazil

  * Kata individual men:
1. Marcos Moron – Peru
2. Nazario Moffa – Italy
3. Pawel Janusz – Poland MKS SPARTAKUS Niepolomice
4. Robert Miclea – Romania

  * Kata team women:
1. Italy – Alessandra Caruso, Chiara Polello, Yuri Shirai
2. Poland – Iwona Furmanek (AKK Lodz), Joanna Szeremeta (AKK Lodz), Katarzyna Krzywanska (AKK Lodz)
3. Romania – Manona Danciu, Monika Ferenczi, Irina Simirad
4. Ukraine – Viktoriya Afendikova, Vera Kucherenko, Anna Medvedeva

  * Kata team men:
1. Italy – Roberto Mariani, Nazario Moffa, Mirko Saffioti
2. Brazil – Vladimir Zanca, Ricardo Luis Buzzi, Vinicius Pinto
3. Portugal – Antonio Lopes, Jose Oliveira, Marco Silva
4. Romania – Florin Dorobantu, Iulian Patrascu, Romeo Trandafir

  * Kumite individual women:
1. Viktoriya Afendikova – Ukraine
2. Marta Niewczas – Poland (Akademia K.T. Rzeszow)
3. Simona Canzanelli – Italy
3. Kathrin Hubatsch – Germany

  * Kumite individual men:
1. Cornel Musat – Romania
2. Toufik Saoud – France
3. Ricardo Luis Buzzi – Brazil
3. Vladimir Pucha – Ukraine

  * Kumite team:
1. Brazil – Vladimir Zanca, Ricardo Luis Buzzi, Clouis Ravagnani, ViniciusPinto
2. Italy – Carlo Casarini, Stefano De Bartolomeo, Matteo Leone, Cristian Zanovello
3. Poland – Lukasz Wojcik (Kluczborski Klub Karate), Lukasz Radwanski (Kluczborski Klub Karate), Bartosz Chyrek (Klub Karate Gdynia), Michal Racki (TS SOKOL SYGULA Aleksandrow Lodzki)
3. Portugal – Tiago Lima, Joao Oliveira, Ricardo Rodrigues, Luis Silva

  * Fuku-go women:
1. Critch Michelle – Canada
2. Vera Kucherenko – Ukraine
3. Anna Kulczynska – Poland AKK Lodz
3. Radu Cornelia – Romania