WAKO World Kickboxing Championships held in Jesolo, Italy

The WAKO World Kickboxing Championships recently concluded in Jesolo, Italy, featuring 5,130 athletes from 79 nations.

Representing Greece, five athletes from the AS Kinezos club secured gold medals. The winners included Elisavet Emenidou (FC +60), Gabriel Grigoryan (K1 -60), Sotiris Kopaidis (LK -81), Alexandra Kasideropoulou (LC -65 & KL -65), and Vasilis Tsiridis (K1 +91).

In the Point Fighting category (-69 kg Old Cadet), Italian athlete Giuseppe Frusciante of the Eanscintao club achieved a fifth-place world ranking. After defeating representatives from Poland and Germany, Frusciante's run concluded following a points-based match against a Bulgarian competitor.