Karate

                   This year’s European Championship in Tampere, Finland is full of suprises.

    The biggest suprise is defenetly that Rafael Aghayev [AZE] is not competing at the Championship. This information was realesed on 26th of April on official website of Azerbaijan Federation. As it says, Rafael is recovering from a recent knee operation so he won’t be able to compete. Azerbaijan Male Kumite Team has lost their best fighter. He will be replaced with Hasanov Rafiz in Male Kumite -75 kg category.

As it could be read on Alexandra Recchia [FRA] facebook page, she is unfortunately also going to miss this year’s European Championship due to injury from the last Wednesday night training. Alexandra is a current european and world champion. She will be replaced by a young Sophia Bouderbane who had one against Alexandra at Franch national championship in finals few weeks ago. According to draw, in the first round Sofia will be fighting against Alexandra’s biggest rival Serap Ozcelik from Turkey.

 NAME: Rafael
SURNAME: Aghayev
BIRTHDAY: 4.3.1985.
COUNTRY: Azerbaijan
CITY: Baku
CATEGORY: Male Kumite -75 kg
DAN/KYU: 2nd DAN
MEDALS: 15 gold, 3 silver, 9 bronze

GOLD MEDALS

48th European Senior Karate Championships 2013 – Male Kumite -75 kg
20th World Senior Karate Championships 2010 – Male Kumite -75 kg
45th European Karate Senior Championships 2010 – Male Kumite -75 kg
44th European Karate Senior Championships 2009 – Male Kumite -75 kg
19th World Senior Karate Championships 2008 – Male Kumite -70 kg
19th World Senior Karate Championships 2008 – Male Kumite Open
43rd European Karate Senior Championships 2008 – Male Kumite Open
42nd European Karate Senior Championships 2007 – Male Kumite -70 kg
42nd European Karate Senior Championships 2007 – Male Kumite Open
18th World Senior Karate Championships 2006 – Male Kumite -70 kg
40th European Karate Senior Championships 2005 – Male Kumite Open
32nd European Cadet & Junior Karate Championships 2005 – Junior Kumite Male -65 kg
39th European Karate Senior Championships 2004 – Male Kumite -65 kg
30th European Cadet & Junior Karate Championships 2003 – Cadet Kumite Male -65 kg
29th European Karate Cadets&Juniors Championships 2002 – Cadet Kumite Male -60 kg

SILVER MEDALS

21st World Seniors Karate Championships 2012 – Male Kumite -75 kg
20th World Senior Karate Championships 2010 – Male Team Kumite
43rd European Karate Senior Championships 2008 – Male Kumite -70 kg

BRONZE MEDALS

47th European Senior Karate Championships 2012 – Male Kumite -75 kg
47th European Senior Karate Championships 2012 – Male Team Kumite
46th European Karate Senior Championships 2011 – Male Kumite -75 kg
45th European Karate Senior Championships 2010 – Male Team Kumite
44th European Karate Senior Championships 2009 – Male Team Kumite
43rd European Karate Senior Championships 2008 – Male Team Kumite
4th World Junior & Cadet Karate Championships 2005 – Junior Male Team Kumite
32nd European Cadet & Junior Karate Championships 2005 – Junior Male Team Kumite
3rd World Junior & Cadet Karate Championships 2003 – Junior Kumite Male -65 kg