Alejandro Navarro (karateka)
Alejandro Navarro (born 15 September 1976 in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands) is a Spanish Full-contact Karateka. He is a 17-time Kyokushin European Champion, of which Navarro has won the Open Championship nine times. He has also once won the 2013 World Cup. Biography Navarro was born in Gran Canaria, where he began to practice martial arts such as taekwondo and Hapkido. Since then, at the age of 16, Navarro visited his relatives at Fuerteventura, where he became interested in Kyokushin karate. Four years later, after turning 20, Navarro moved to Fuerteventura to practice Kyokushin. Navarro is also a long-time kickboxing enthusiast and had ambitions to pursue a K-1 career. However, Navarro is known for his long braided beard, which under K-1 terms he would have had to cut to be allowed to compete. However, Navarro refused and his career in kickboxing is still open. Competition career Navarro finished sixth in the second Open Series of the 2002 European Championships.
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Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital of the island, is the biggest city of the Canary Islands and the ninth of Spain. Gran Canaria is located in the Atlantic Ocean in a region known as Macaronesia about off the northwestern coast of Africa and about from Europe. With an area of km2 ( sq. mi) and an altitude of at Morro de la Agujereada, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. Gran Canaria is also the third most populated island in Spain. History In antiquity, Gran Canaria was populated by the North African Canarii, who may have arrived as early as 500 BC. In the medieval period, after over a century of European incur ...
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