As well as events for individuals, there was a Semi-Contact tournament for national teams at the W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Coimbra. Each team consisted of four members – three men and one woman – with no weight categories, although fights were same-sex only (e.g. women faced women, men faced men). There were thirteen teams from two continents (Europe and North America) taking part in the competition and each of the matches was four rounds of one minute each (each fighter on a team fought one round against the opposing team, with the women fighting last), fought under Semi-Contact rules.[1]
Due to there not being enough teams for a tournament designed for sixteen, three of the teams had byes through to the quarter-finals. The tournament gold medallists were Team Great Britain who defeated Team Hungary in the final by points decision. Team USA and Team Germany occupied the bronze medal spots.[2]
Results edit
| 1st round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
 Team Switzerland
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 Team USA
| D(37:34) | Team USA
| D(27:25) | ||||||||||||||||
 Team Greece
| Team USA
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 Team Poland
| D(23:22) |  Team Hungary
| D(28:21) | ||||||||||||||||
 Team Russia
| Team Poland
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| Team Hungary
| D(17:8) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Team Hungary
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 Team Italy
|  Team Great Britain
| D(17:15) | |||||||||||||||||
 Team Canada
| D(16:13) | Team Canada
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| Team Great Britain
| D(25:11) | Team Great Britain
| D(20:15) | ||||||||||||||||
 Team Ireland
| Team Great Britain
| D(20:7) | |||||||||||||||||
 Team Slovenia
| D(24:16) |  Team Germany
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 Team Austria
| Team Slovenia
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| Team Germany
| D(22:10) | ||||||||||||||||||
Key edit
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| D (3:0) | Decision (Unanimous) |
| D (2:1) | Decision (Split) |
| KO | Knockout |
| TKO | Technical Knockout |
| AB | Abandonment (Injury in match) |
| WO | Walkover (No fight) |
| DQ | Disqualification |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Semi-Contact Rules - WAKO (Scroll down to page 9 - 15.2 Team Competition)" (PDF). www.wakoweb.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
- ^ "Official WAKO results (Zip File - Click on Pools SC.pdf)". www.wakoweb.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-03-19.