Trieste, 16 February 2008. A gold, a silver and two bronzes, blue cadets do not take the step of junior colleagues (seven times yesterday on the podium), but quest'Italia remains stellar and leads at 11 the number of medals won in these 35 'European Championships Karate in Trieste. The Turkey however, goes to sign with a great achievement: 6 medals, 3 gold, a silver and two bronze, making it possible to override the medals in Italy and ki so summit. The last word belongs to the team competitions, scheduled Sunday, the final day. It is still the kata to lead a team to the European title and blue vincerlo was Giada Poci, who has lined up four victories, the last of them with the German Kurz and is worth the continental crown. Four victories has also obtained Giada Bernardi in the +57 kg, but in the final, the French Prouille was an insurmountable obstacle to his gold medal. Giuseppe Di Gennaro and Veronica Maurizzi finally have completed the blue palmares of this second day of the European Karate Championships in Trieste, with bronze medals won respectively in kata and 57 kg kumite. Sunday, the final day with a programme of racing teams reserved only junior class. In Kumite, Italy where the women must see with Croatia, while the men will face Sweden. In Kata instead, the female Italy opens the day facing Macedonia and males if they see with England. The start of races is set at 10 to end with the closing ceremony at 17.

Standings cadets and the comments of athletes

Kata male cadets: 1) Carbonell Jose Manuel Lopez (ESP); 2) Metin Sofuoglu (TUR); 3) Matej Urik (SVK) and Giuseppe Di Gennaro (ITA)

Giuseppe Di Gennaro: "I am satisfied, but with a bit of disappointment because I lost the second meeting with the turkish Sofuoglu for 3 to 2. I expected a different meeting and I treasure hoping to meet him as soon as possible ".

Kata female cadets: 1) Giada Poci (ITA); 2) Franziska Kurz (GER), 3) Ashleigh Kenny (ENG) and Patricia Martinez Quintero (Esp)

Giada Poci: "I am delighted because I fought the same final last year with the same opponent who had beaten me, but here I was able to take the desideratissima revenge."

Kumite female cadets

51 kg: 1) Tuba Yenen (TUR); 2) Alexia Barragao (FRA), 3) Svetlana Kozlachkova (RUS) and Danica Bujan (CRO)

Tuba Yenen: "I am very pleased with the victory for 7 to 1, not because I was expecting a victory so clear.

57 kg: 1) Jana Bitsch (GER), 2) Stephanie Barre (FRA), 3) Stephanie Otten (BEL) and Veronica Maurizzi (ITA)

Veronica Maurizzi: "I left the big, but then I was surprised at the third meeting by the German Bitsch. The disappointment was higher in reaction, I found the tenacity to bring home the bronze medal. "

Jana Bitsch: "It is the most beautiful day of my life".

+57 Kg: 1) Marie Prouille (FRA); 2) Julia Bernardi (ITA), 3) Dijana Vujosevic (MNE) and Ece Yasar (TUR)

Giulia Bernardi: "This is my first European championship and even though I had already made international competitions, was so much emotion. In the final I was put in difficulty by long levers of Prouille and I are due satisfy the silver medal, but I am also very happy. "

Marie Prouille: "I worked very hard for this event and I am happy to have centered the goal for which I have prepared."

60 kg: 1) Aykut Kaya (TUR), 2) Otto Horvath (HUN), 3) Mladen Curic (SRB) and Klavis Kalnins (LAT)

Aykut Kaya: "It was a very exciting event, organised to contentissimo are great and I have won here in Italy. It means a lot to me. "

65 kg: 1) Grach Egiazaryan (RUS), 2) Falk Kelbassa (GER), 3) Mahammad Guliyev (AZE) and Meris Muhovic (BIH)

70 kg: 1) Viktor Viskup (SVK); 2) Fernando Moreno (ESP); 3) Senad Vukovic (BiH) and Joachim Letang (FRA)

Viktor Viskup: "Im very happy."

75 kg: 1) Aykut Usda (TUR); 2) Haris Sujkovic (BIH); 3) Josip Livada (CRO) and Ivan Stijovic (SRB)

Aykut Usda: "I contentissimo the result, because it was very hard up here, because the preparation was tough and selective".

+75 Kg: 1) Danilo Lucic (MNE), 2) Vladimir Mitic (SRB); 3) Dimitrios Margaritopoulos (GRE) and Hakan Yerebakan (TUR)

Medals after 2 days of races: 1) Turkey (5 gold, 1 silver, 6 bronze); 2) Italy (4-2-5); 3) France (3-3-3); 4) Spain (2-4 -3); 5) Germany (2-3-1); 6) Slovakia (1-1-1); 7) Netherlands (1-0-1); 8) Russia (1-0-1); 9) Montenegro (1-0-1); 10) Rep. Ceka (1-0-0)


Enzo De Money

(This article was translated by a machine translation software and not by one person)