The men's light heavyweight () Low-Kick category at the
W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Belgrade was the fourth-heaviest of the male Low-Kick tournaments, involving seventeen fighters from three continents (
Europe
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,
Asia
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and
Africa
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). Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under Low-Kick rules.
As there were too few fighters for a tournament of thirty-two, fifteen of the fighters received byes through to the second round. The tournament champion was
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
's
Nenad Pagonis
Nenad Pagonis ( sr-cyr, Ненад Пагонис; born 28 July 1987) is a Serbian Cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight kickboxer fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Team Pagonis in Novi Sad, Serbia. In 2010 he became World ...
who won the gold by defeating
Azerbaijan
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's Rail Rajabov in the final via
split decision
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A split dec ...
. Defeated semi finalists, Dénes Rácz from
Hungary
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and Viktor Nordh from
Sweden
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received bronze medals.
Results
Key
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. Du ...
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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 ...
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List of male kickboxers
This is a list of notable male professional kickboxers.
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* Donegi Abena
* Lukas Achterberg
* Thomas Adamandopoulos
* Serhiy Adamchuk
* Romie Adanza
* Armando González
* Benjamin Adegbuyi
* Israel Adesanya
* Peter Aerts
* Ryo Aitaka
* Vi ...
References
External links
WAKO World Association of Kickboxing Organizations Official Site{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207084545/http://wakoweb.com/%2fen%2f , date=2013-12-07
Kickboxing events at the WAKO World Championships 2007 Belgrade
2007 in kickboxing
Kickboxing in Serbia