Irish Open 2016: No Borders No Limits

March 11, 2016

This year, if you participated in tournament Irish Open 2016, you can proudly say that you were the part of the history. All expectations came true: the number of entries braked the number of 4000.

In total, 4151 entries covered full two-days program that can not be seen anywhere else in martial sports.

Facilities of the venue and the hotel, unique as they are, gave us the chance to enjoy in tatami fights, ring fights, and performance in musical forms. With participants of all ages, from beginners to the veterans, there was the program for all tastes. Watching the kids of the early ages, girls and boys, fighting their first tatami fights, some of them crying and some of them celebrating, was very emotional.

Among 32 registered countries and 298 teams, we had the opportunity to watch the best world’s fighters WAKO nowadays has. This tournament was the occasion where new on-line registration and scoring system in WAKO started to be in use. When disregarding some little omissions, the system has proven to be very useful.

The Competition started on March 4th and lasted till March 6th. Charity for the children was the main purpose of this sporting event, for which was collected more than 20.000 Euro and the cheque was handed to social service officials. We had grand finale night on March 5th.

All of us have to be pleased and proud to be part of this great event.

For pictures please look at the photo gallery!

For video highlights please look at: https://youtu.be/2izeimma0vM

All results and statistics can be found on:

https://www.sportdata.org/kickboxing/set-online/veranstaltung_info_main.php?active_menu=calendar&vernr=132&ver_info_action=info#a_eventhead

MEDAL STATISTIC – COUNTRY
RANK	COUNTRY		GOLD	SILVER BRONZE	BRONZE
1	IRELAND	IRL	49	46 64	64	159
2	ITALY	ITA	42	21 52	52	115
3	UNITED KINGDOM	GBR	30	47 80	80	157
4	ENGLAND	ENG	18	17 25	25	60
5	HUNGARY	HUN	14	11 17	17	42
6	GERMANY	GER	9	16 31	31	56
7	NORWAY	NOR	8	10 16	16	34
8	GREECE	GRE	8	6 9	9	23
9	UNITED STATES	USA	8	4 10	10	22
10	BELGIUM	BEL	4	5 0	0	9

MEDAL STATISTIC – CLUB / TEAM
RANK	CLUB / TEAM		GOLD	SILVER bronze	BRONZE
1	HMD ITALIA	ITA	10	9 12	12	31
2	KIRALYTEAM KICKBOXING ACADEMY	HUN	10	7 10	10	27
3	SHEFFIELD DRAGONS	ENG	9	6 4	4	19
4	TALLAGHT MARTIAL ARTS	IRL	7	4 4	4	15
5	TEAM PAUL MITCHELL	USA	7	2 1	1	10
6	BLACK BELT ACADEMY WATERFORD	IRL	6	5 2	2	13
7	MADDOGS FIGHTING CLUB	GBR	5	3 5	5	13
8	ATHENS FIGHTING TEAM	GRE	5	2 2	2	9
9	MADE IN SUD BARRUS	ITA	5	1 6	6	12
10	KELLYS FREESTYLE MARTIAL ARTS	IRL	5	0 1	1

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