The tournament will feature numerous European and world medal winners. Many teams are coming with their best athletes, as this competition presents the final control competition before the World Senior Championship, which will be held in Belgrade at the end of October.
The competition will be supervised by a delegate of the World Karate Federation, who will evaluate whether Rijeka could run for the host of the World Senior Championship in 2016. The Croatian Karate Union has a membership of 156 clubs and over 10,000 registered competitors, and as the president of the Croatian Karate Union, Stjepan Čelan said, the area of Rijeka is the best in karate in Croatia, it has extremely good athletes and referees, and therefore deserves to get such a competition.
The City of Rijeka has actively engaged in the preparations for this competition, so Rijeka will be its host for the following four years. We trust that the competition will be well organized, and it will thus confirm that Rijeka is ready to be the host of the World Senior Championship 2016, as Veljko Karabaić, the head of the City Department of Sports and Technical Culture, pointed out.
On Saturday, from 9 until 11:30 a.m. there will be the kata competition for the categories of cadets, juniors and seniors, both boys and girls, individually and as a team. The fights for juniors, young seniors and seniors, both boys and girls, are scheduled from 11:30 a.m. until 6 p.m.
The grand opening will be held from 6:30 until 7 p.m., accompanied by artistic program. The final fights will start from 7 p.m., according to categories in five weight groups for girls seniors and five for boys seniors.
The kata competition for younger students, students, and young cadets, both boys and girls, individually and as a team, is scheduled for Sunday from 9 until 11 a.m. The fights for students will be from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., young cadets will be from 1 until 3 p.m., and fights for cadets will be from 3 p.m. on. The entrance is free.
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