The men's light middleweight (71
kg/156.2
lbs) K-1 category at the
W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade was the sixth lightest of the K-1 tournaments, involving twelve fighters all based in
Europe
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. Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under
K-1 rules.
Owing to the low number of fighters for a sixteen-man tournament, four of the contestants had byes through to the quarter-finals. The tournament winner was
Belarus's Dmitry Valent
Dmitry 'Black Valet' Valent (born 13 April 1988 in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian Muay Thai middleweight/ super middleweight kickboxer. He is the former WKN Middleweight Oriental rules and Muay thai champion, former WMC Light Heavyweight ch ...
who won gold by defeating his
Russia
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n opponent Rizvan Isaev. Semi finalists Djime Coulibaly from
France
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and
Italian
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*** Regional Ita ...
Manuele Raini were rewarded for the efforts with bronze medals.
Results
See also
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List of WAKO Amateur World Championships
W.A.K.O. held its first amateur world championships in 1978 in West Berlin, after having previously staged two European championships the two years previously. It followed this with a second world championships a year later in Tampa, Florida. D ...
*
List of WAKO Amateur European Championships
The first W.A.K.O. Amateur European Championships were organized by George Bruckner and held in Vienna in 1977 and between 1977 and 1982 the organization held a European Championships each year. W.A.K.O. began to change the timing of the champion ...
*
List of male kickboxers
This is a list of notable male professional kickboxers.
A
* Donegi Abena
* Lukas Achterberg
* Thomas Adamandopoulos
* Serhiy Adamchuk
* Romie Adanza
* Armando González
* Benjamin Adegbuyi
* Israel Adesanya
* Peter Aerts
* Ryo Aitaka
* Vi ...
References
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External links
WAKO World Association of Kickboxing Organizations Official Site
Kickboxing events at the WAKO World Championships 2007 Belgrade
2007 in kickboxing
Kickboxing in Serbia