GREAT CHAMPION ...

FRANCESCA AFTER WORLD 2013 AND THE 2014 EUROPEAN TITLE WINS THE WORLD IKU 2015

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Maribor (Slovenia) November 8, 2015

From 5 to 8 November in Maribor has played the IKU karate World Championship for Cadets (from 14 up to 17 years) and Junior (18 to 20 years) where Francesca Casalboni Academy of Verucchio Hikari Ryu Karate Master David Telesca winning the world title IKU in the specialty of kumite (combat) in the category cadets -60kg, confirming the world title won two years ago in Caorle (VE) and the European one obtained last year in London.

Confirmation peremptory signed with a net final (6 a0) although thrilling.

The competition started from Friday with the team fighting. A start with a bang for young karateca Torre Pedrera against the Irish selection, as the Casalboni began with a 6 to 0 before the limit, however, frustrated by the performance of the other Italian who have not been able to capitalize on the advantage thereby losing 2 to 1 .

On Saturday the races then continued with the final selections. Francesca started with a less impetuous and more wait, highlighting the excellent technical and great speed reaching, not without difficulty, the final with a final meeting won to extra-time.

In Sunday's final Francesca Casalboni it comes immediately with a concentration too high for the unexpected opponent, the Romanian Budugan, who defeated the favored English athlete of Indian origin Kuhaendran. The Casalboni part in the attack with clean and fast techniques, not conceding anything her opponent, coming to be ahead by 5 to 0, but here perhaps falls into her opponent and the game comes to collect the heavy warnings that lead to risk big in the last seconds of the meeting. In fact during the last attack of the Romanian defends taking care not to commit fouls or exit the tatami because in this case would have been disqualified, but here takes the masterpiece: forced the corner and already projected out deals a great blow to the body that the He does win the match before the limit does not have trembled for the possible disqualification, with blue present that first struck dumb are then exploded in a great applause, while Francesca received the congratulations of the enemy, the federal staff and judges.

The Telesca Master, heard immediately after the race: ".... honored and deeply moved by Francesca who is the world champion IKU reconfirms cadets, but mostly because he won the final before the limit: Amazing and wonderful. Thank you so much ....".

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