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Last Friday, July 24, the mayor of Águilas, Mari Carmen Moreno, and the mayor of sports, Cristóbal Casado, received the coach and director of the Club Kárate Águilas, Juan Carlos Navarro Gómez, and the members at the gates of the Aguileño Consistory from your competition team.Navarro has explained how difficult the current situation is for all sports due to Covid19, especially for contact sports, such as karate.The competition team, which has recently resumed training, has had to adapt to the new regulations, which imply rigorous safety measures such as hygiene, distance between athletes or the temporary elimination of hand-to-hand fighting.The aquiline club has participated this July in two new world championships.

These competitions have been organized by the www.sportdata.org platform and sponsored by two major sports equipment brands.In the aforementioned online events a maximum of 32 participants per category and different age group are allowed, in the kata and kumite modalities (only techniques, without a real opponent).

The components have a day to record their best kata, or their best kumite technique moves.

The recording must be uploaded to the online platform, where a series of judgesThey will only have one day to evaluate the videos and put the grade on them, which allows them to go through rounds until they reach the final.The coach of the Eagles Karate Club highlighted that "the interesting thing about the championship, apart from re-motivating young people in the competition (due to the break due to the problems of the COVIC-19), is being able to fight with competitors of all levels , and from all over the world.

"The young karateka from the club from Aguila who have participated in these two championships are:Alba Franco, Luis Miguel Agulló, Sergio Atienza, Isabel Torres, Cristóbal Díaz, Pablo Atienza, José Contreras, Antonio Pérez, León Mamonko, Alejandro Franco, Anass Elhaidaoi, Laura Piñero, Heike Martínez, Ziyan Miao, Zihao Miao, Andrés Martínez and Adrián Sedeño.Some of them have managed to pass a round.

Others, like José Contreras, Anass Elhaidaoi and Andrés Martínez managed to reach third place.

Laura Piñero, Cristóbal Díaz, Adrián Sedeño, and Luis Miguel Agulló got the silver.

And Zihao Miao achieved on this occasion a more than creditable first place.

All these good results were achieved in the E-Kumite modality.Both the mayor and the councilor for Sports congratulated the director of the group and congratulated all the members of the Club Karate Eagles for the achievements made in such difficult times.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas