The upcoming 11th World Championship is only 2 month away, and with many fighters and profiles, we are going to take a look at some of them. First out we will start with a strong team,taken from the women division. Russia, profiles and videos to follow..

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Russia have 5 fighters in the women category: Irina Valieva, Anna Vishnyakova, Olga Ivanova, Natalia Sozykina, and Julia Trushina. If we look to the Lithuaninan team, they have 7 fighters: Rita Pivoriunaite, Gabija Gudeliauskaite, Nora Vaznelyte, Inga Mikstaite, Diana Balsyte, Diana Maciute and Ruta Brazdzionyte.

These two teams stands for almost 1/4 part of the fighters in the Championship, and if we had added Japan to it, we would be half way through the line up. just to get a little overview.

The Russian team are from Region Russia (as most know in WKO the Russian region are not a part of Europe, as many other organizations have) The Lithuanian team from region Europe, have over 50% of the fighters from the European Region.All fighters at the World Championship will naturally be top fighters from their country, and region.

←Natalia Sozykina Russia, first round draw in the 11th WT Diana Maciute/Lithuania.

In this fight we will se a very tough match up. Maciute not only several time national champion, but European Champion as well and been among the top three in the European Championship last four year.

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Olga Ivanova, Russia, first round draw Diana Balsyte/Lithuania. Two fighters from the heavyweight division. This fight will be one of the “biggest” match up. Balsyte raging 183 cm , and Ivanova weighed in as one of the heaviest fighters. This gives us a very exiting match up between to strong contenders.

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Irina valieva, Russia. Well known Russian fighter with great tournament experience. Also fighting in the last World Championship, and she has been very active fighting cross the world across organizations. Fighting in the British open 2 weeks before the world tournament. First round draw will be against Maysaa Tarhini, Lebanon,, Middle East region.

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Anna Vishnyakova, Russia. Strong record, much experience and she has fought i several tournaments with great results. Also “warming up” to the World Championship with British Open 2 weeks before, and that is a tournament Anna Vishnyakova has good results in. First round draw in the World Tournament will be against the winner of Kimm Carriere/ Canada vs Djefini Rumie De Carvalho/Brazil.

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Julia Trushina Russia. Fight in the middleweight at regular basis, and has been the Russian champion. That alone is a good result, when we see above who the other contenders are. First round draw will give her the winner of Yekaterina Gurova/Kazakhstan vs Isis Pinilla/Spain. Both strong fighters, Isis 2 times European champion in the lightweight division.

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