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The World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (W.A.K.O or WAKO) is an international kickboxing organization counting over 120 affiliated countries representing all five continents. [1] WAKO is a major governing body of amateur kickboxing and is responsible for the development of kickboxing worldwide.
Of late, W.A.K.O. have begun to get involved with the SportAccord World Combat Games, hosting male and female full-contact, semi-contact and low-contact kickboxing competitions at the 2010 event, [5] with the 2009 world championships (both events) being used as qualifiers.
More information on Aero-Kickboxing and the rules can be found on the W.A.K.O. website. [8] Although the Aero-Kickboxing competitions in Paris were not well documented with many of the winners being absent from records, Italy did particularly well, winning three gold and two silver medal. [9] [10]
The other usual styles (Full/Semi/Light-Contact kickboxing) would be held at the event in Szeged. By the end of the championships regular winners Russia were once again the top nation across all styles, with hosts Morocco doing well in second thanks largely to a great performance in Thai-Boxing, with Belarus way behind in third. [ 3 ]
The men's welterweight (67 kg/147.4 lbs) Low-Kick category at the W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade was the sixth lightest of the male Low-Kick tournaments, involving seventeen fighters from two continents (Europe and Asia).
W.A.K.O. World Championships 1983 were the fourth world kickboxing championships hosted by W.A.K.O. and were organized by British P.K.A. principal Mike Haig. It was the second W.A.K.O. event to be held in London (the 1980 European championship was also held here) and was open to amateur male kickboxers only and featured two forms of kickboxing - Full-Contact and Semi-Contact.
The 2018 WAKO World Cadet & Juniors Kickboxing Championships was held at the Palazzo del Turismo in Jesolo, Italy and took place between 15 and 23 September 2018. [1] Fighters between 10 and 18 years old of age, coming from 64 countries competed in all the kickboxing disciplines, three ring sports (Full contact, Low Kick and K-1) and four ...
The men's middleweight (75 kg/165 lbs) Low-Kick category at the W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade was the fifth heaviest of the male Low-Kick tournaments, involving nineteen fighters from four continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and South America).