KARATE – MONTREAL 2019 : SCOTT WINNER, UYGUR, SAGO AND KNEER IN SILVER

Winner of the Pan American championships last spring, Thomas Scott (-75 kg) was again in Montreal at the last SeriesA of the summer. The American dominated Kazakhstan’s Ainazarov in the ½ final (6-4) before beating quite easily Turkey’s Eltemur in the final (4-0).

Three other adidas Team members were close to gold. Japan’s Naoto Sago (-60 kg), World silver medallist last November, narrowly lost (1-0) to the untouchable Darkan Assadilov of Kazakhstan, who signs his 5^th win in a row in Canada !

Burak Uygur (-67 kg) bows only to the flags (after a 0-0) against Japan’s Kozaki. The two-time European champion (2017, 2018) will defend his 2015 European Games title next week in Minsk (June 22-25).

Unqualified for Belarus, Germany’s Johanna Kneer decided to try herself in the higher category. With brilliance since she reached the +68 kg final. But she lost to Italy’s Ferracuti, declared winner at the decision (0-0).

The 2019 podiums

MEN

-60 kg

1. Assadilov (Kaz)
2. Sago (Jap)
3. Samdan (Tur) and Baitureyev (Kaz)

-67 kg

1. Kozaki (Jap)
2. Uygur (Tur)
3. Dionysos (Gre) and Amirali (Kaz)

-75 kg

1. Scott (USA)
2. Eltemur (Tur)
3. Pietromarchi (Ita) and Aniazarov (Kaz)

-84 kg

1. Aktas (Tur)
2. Martina (Ita)
3. Chikhmarev (Kaz) and Abdesselem (Fra)

+84 kg

1. Yamanoglu (Tur)
2. Gaysinsky (Can)
3. Ganjzadeh (Irn) and Irr (Usa)

Kata

1. Moto (Jap)
2. Nishiyama (Jap)
3. Sofuoglu (Tur) and Shimomura (Jap)

FEMALE

-50 kg

1. Ayaka (Jap)
2. Ranran (Chi)
3. Tsukii (Phi) and Ozcelik (Tur)

-55 kg

1. Zakharova (Kaz)
2. Bitsch (Ger)
3. Yakan (Tur) and Hasani (Cro)

-61 kg

1. Grande (Per)
2. Prekovic (Srb)
3. Yin (Chn) and Jumaa (Can)

-68 kg

1. Semeraro (Ita)
2. Someya (Jap)
3. Matoub (Alg) and Tang (Chn)

+68 kg

1. Ferracuti (Ita)
2. Kneer (Ger)
3. Berultseva (Kaz) and Abbsali (Ira)

Kata

1. Ono H. (Jap)
2. Ono M. (Jap)
3. Iwamoto (Jap) and Umekage (Jap)