European Championship 2016 Shinkyokushin – countdown -50!

2016_EC_haukisposter – women – lightWith over 300 entries, (adults and Juniors 1998-1999) the European Championship in Georgia will be almost as big as it was last year in Poland. -and that was a remarkably high number of contenders. This will also for many of the profiles be the first international tournament since the World Championship 2015. New weight categories do we also have, and that bring some new set ups among the fighters..

Light weight women -50 kg 10 fighters.

In this category the lightest women division, we have many fighters that not would entered the EC with the old weight system in EC. The battle between Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria will be hard.

But we think that one of the fighters do have a little thing more than the rest : Bulgarian fighter Litovska Violeta. She is a very strong fighter, as we saw in the KWU World Championship last fall. She did not only dominated her opponents technical but also with strength. And on top of that, she has the skills to finish the fight before full time.   

Lithuania got two fighters in this category, Justina Šišaitė and Jelena Sapožnikova. Both with good experience and used to reach the podiums of the tournaments the enter. 

sandraAlso Poland do have two fighters in this category, Monika Podora and ⇐ Sandra Nowak (left) Also these fighters usually reach higher level in the tournaments. Nationals as well as internationals.