(Picture on the left by Carl Celius www.kampsportforalle.no )

The year ends with a fantastic World Championship in Dublin, Ireland. Out of that last championship one kickboxer must be mentioned for her achievments &rdash Tonje Sørlie.

Tonje Sørlie from Norway is a unique champion and not many fighters can show the same result &rdash Being world champion in 3 different disciplines. The record as of now is:

v World Champion in Light-Contact in 2003

v World Champion in Semi-Contact and Light-Contact in 2005

v Combat Games Champion in Full-Contact in 2010

v World Champions in Full-Contact in 2011

v In addition several silver in Full-Contact in previous World Championships and her gold medals in European Championships and herWorld Cup victories

She is not only winning but really fight with a big kickboxing heart which result to versatility of her performance. She has impressing movement, good punch and last but not least, she uses kicks as a weapon and perform Full-Contact like it should be practiced &rdash combinations of arms and legs all the way.

So, let us applaud a fantastic champion, a person that uses the total variety of our WAKO kickboxing disciplines in order to improve &rdash a really good ambassadeur of our sport.

Also congratulations to former Full-Contact Champion Thomas Kristiansen that have made Tonje this unique.