2015 World Cup

8th Traditional Karate World Cup ORLEN 2015, 3rd Intercontinental Kumite Cup

4-7 June 2015 – Stara Wieś (Poland)

On behalf of the World Traditional Karate-Do Federation (WTKF) we are pleased to announce that the 8th Traditional Karate World Cup ORLEN 2015 will be held on 5 – 6 June, 2015 in the Japanese Martial Arts and Sports Centre Dojo – Stara Wieś (Poland).

In the World Cup there will compete 8 top men’s and 8 women’s traditional karate athletes selected by the WTKF Technical Committee. During the 2015 World Cup we will host the 3rd Intercontinental Kumite Cup and the kumite teams from USA, Brazil, Japan, Europe and Poland (the Host) are invited to attend in.

photo Marek Andrzejewski

The events schedule is as follows:

4 June (Thursday)

Arrival (Officials, Judges, Athletes)

5 June (Friday)

The WTKF Refreshing Course
8th Traditional Karate World Cup ORLEN 2015 – eliminations

6 June (Saturday)

8th Traditional Karate World Cup ORLEN 2015 – finals
Karate demonstration
3rd Intercontinental Kumite Cup

7 June (Sunday)

Departure

SELECTED ATHLETES

ATHLETE – MAN

Donald Crowe – Canada
Andrej Demler – Germany
Tigran Gevorgyan – Armenia
Diyar Hojayev – Turkmenistan
Claudio Alejandro Jurado – Argentina
Kuzmin Kirill – Russia
Vladimir Pucha – Ukraine
Ronaldier Rodrigues – Brazil
Damian Stasiak – Poland
Vojtech Sliva – Czech Republic
Marcus Wenner – USA
Rafał Wajda – Poland

ATHLETE – WOMAN

Michelle Cassia – Brazil
Maria Depta – Poland
Zuhrazhan Dzumabayeva – Turkmenistan
Marina Evans – Canada
Kathrin Hubatsch – Germany
Hana Juranova – Czech Republic
Kristina Shevchenko – Ukraine
Natalia Tsarova – Russia
Małgorzata Zabrocka – Poland

REWARDS

All participating athletes and kumite teams will receive cups and also financial rewards will be given to the World Cup athletes (women and men) from the first three places:

1st place – 1.000 USD

2nd place – 650 USD

3rd place– 350 USD

Please send your recommendations of highly qualified athletes and judges for consideration to be selected for the World Cup and recommendations of athletes for the team kumite from Europe. Recommendations (on the enclosed form) shall be sent by e-mail to president@wtkfkarate.org.

Deadline for recommendations: April 15, 2015.

Sincerely Yours,

Włodzimierz Kwieciński
President