September the 3rd, European Open Szolnok Cup 2016 will be held in Hungary. Last year the tournament attracted some of the best fighters in European. On top of that fighters from outside the European region attended as well, Russia would be easy to remember. Top fighters as Marius Ilas, Khasai Magomedov, Gàbor Ròzsa, Nazar Nazirov, Lasha Khachapuridze, Szepesi Csenge, Agata Kaliciak, Anna Vishnyakova – to name a few…!
This tournament will be a great start of the season after summer. As many pointed out last year, this tournament was of great interest since the top European fighters faced fighters from Russia and Kazakhstan. We all know the high level in this countries, but seen from a European view it is not often we see them up against each other. Most of the cases would be the World Championship and/or the World Championship in weight categories.
Besides a huge number of fighters from Hungary, last years tournament had fighters from Croatia, Sweden, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Romania, Poland and Ukraine. Organizer of this year tournament 2016 : Shihan Kálmán Furkó 7 dan WKO Branch Chief. Info and guidelines for this years tournament. ⇒
Take a look back – videos and results from last year tournament!