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It followed this with a second world championships a year later in Tampa, Florida. During the 1980s the world championships were held every other year except for in 1985 when a feud within the W.A.K.O. organization led to two versions of the championships being held on the same date – one in London, the other in Budapest. [2]
WAKO holds a world championship every two years, with youth (18 and under) and adult (18–45) championships in separate years; only national teams are accepted. Each member country can present only one competitor in each weight class.
For the first time ever at a W.A.K.O. world championships, both men and women were allowed to take part in Light-Contact, with the men having seven weight classes, starting at 57 kg/125.4 lbs and ending at over 84 kg/+184.8 lbs and the women's having four weight classes beginning at 50 kg/110 lbs and ending at over 60 kg/+132 lbs.
Full-Contact was available to men only at Munich and consisted of the usual ten weight divisions ranging from 54 kg/118.8 lbs to over 91 kg/200.2 lbs.All bouts were fought under Full-Contact kickboxing rules – more detail on the rules can be found at the W.A.K.O. website, although be aware that they may have changed slightly since 1987. [3]
W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Coimbra were the joint 16th edition of the W.A.K.O. world championships and was the second event (the Belgrade event having been held a month previously). The championships were for amateur male and female kickboxers and martial artists , covering the following categories; Full-Contact, Semi-Contact, Musical ...
WAKO World Championships 2007 Belgrade (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "WAKO Amateur World Championships events" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
W.A.K.O. World Cadets & Juniors Championships 2016 in Dublin were the joint 22nd edition of the W.A.K.O. world championships. Overall Medals Standing (Top 5) [ edit ]
The men's cruiserweight (86 kg/189.2 lbs) Low-Kick category at the W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade was the third heaviest of the male Low-Kick tournaments, involving eighteen fighters from three continents (Europe, Asia and Africa). Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under Low-Kick rules.