
	"RESULTS OF THE 2nd KYOKUSHIN KARATE FULL CONTACT WORLD CUP" IKO 3 NOVEMBER 4 & 5, 2006 Sydney - Australia

2006 Karate World Cup Result

MALE

MALE LIGHTWEIGHT
NAME	PLACE	COUNTRY
Darren Stringer	1st place	United Kingdom
Kanat Rakhimov	2nd place	Kazakhstan
Masayuki Sakamoto	3rd place	Australia

MALE MIDDLEWEIGHT
NAME	PLACE	COUNTRY
Olusegun Odunukan	1st place	United Kingdom
Jason Baltov	2nd place	Australia
Sergiy Doronin	3rd place	Ukraine

MALE HEAVYWEIGHT
NAME	PLACE	COUNTRY
Zsombor Magosi	1st place	Hungary
Bulat Nurabyev	2nd place	Kazakhstan
Sergiy Doronin	3rd place	Ukraine

2006 Karate World Cup Result

FEMALE

FEMALE LIGHTWEIGHT
NAME	PLACE	COUNTRY
Mariya Gridneva	1st place	Kazakhstan
Margaret Le	2nd place	Australia
Anna Kukarina	3rd place	Russia

FEMALE MIDDLEWEIGHT
NAME	PLACE	COUNTRY
Naomi Wood	1st place	Australia
Monelle Richard	2nd place	Canada
Michelle Harmer	3rd place	Australia

FEMALE HEAVYWEIGHT
NAME	PLACE	COUNTRY
Penita Davies	1st place	New Zealand
Tamaro Booi	2nd place	South Africa
Lia Howlett	3rd place	United Kingdom

SPECIALS AWARDS
AWARDS	NAME	COUNTRY
Most "Spirited" Fighter (Female)	Kaori Ishihara	Japan
Most "Spirited" Fighter (Male)	Paul Mosioua Mokoena	South Africa
Best "Technical" Fighter	Dmytro Goncharov	Ukraine
Fastest "Knock Out" (9 Seconds)	Mariya Gridneva	Kazakhstan

COUNTRY

FLAG

NAME OF THE FIGHTERS

AUSTRALIA

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Hiroko Suzuki	Sharon Boyle	Melanie Agapiou
Megan Hardy	Naomi Wood	Nicole McDerby
Sue Albert	Michelle Harmer	Laura Symonds
Monica Baltovska	Caroline Cox	Alicia Smith
Katie Ford		Natali Rolfe
Margerate Le

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Nakia Benny	Jason Baltov	Robert Vack
Masayuki Sakamoto	Dean Hinch	Eddie Sorrensen
Luke Argento	Simon Noble	James O'Neil
Daniel Larkins	Dean Treloar	Michael Archer
Jim Sklavos	Luke Trotz	Jason Walker
Wayne Nicholls	George Tanevski	Steve Crack
	Alan Taylor
	Gedelia Rubinstein

BRASIL

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
N/A	Reginaldo Assis Firmino	N/A

CANADA

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
N/A	Monelle Richard	N/A

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Barry Knudson	John Newlan Jr.	Guy Marquis
Sean Devlin	Rene Dupuis	Robert Poirier
Jean LeBlanc		Pat Panzarinoi
Mathieu Boucher
Justin Mancini

GEORGIA

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
N/A	N/A	Gia Gvenetadzf (did not show up)

GERMANY

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Zaman Mortajaei	N/A	Holger Niltop (did not show up)

HAITI

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Alphonse Gary (did not show up)	Jacques Samson (did not show up)	N/A
Elieser Igerard (did not show up)	Jeanty Sherlo (did not show up)
	Louis Anaud (did not show up)
	Paul Berthin (did not show up)

HUNGARY

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Lilla Herczeg	Anikó Szabo	N/A

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Imre Gyarmati	N/A	Csaba Orehovszki
		Zsombor Magosi

INDIA

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
J. Nolan (did not show up)	Ganesh Muthukrishna (did not show up)	Aliyarukunju Nazeer (did not show up)
	Nasarath Stalin (did not show up)	Chiradeep Bhattacharya (did not show up)
	Sunil Kumare (did not show up)	Dharmendra Giri (did not show up)
		Muhammed Faisal.K.V.P (did not show up)
		S. Johny (did not show up)
		Thomas Padannakkad (did not show up)

IRAN

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Babak Banjbar Tuvakuki (did not show up)	Ebrahim Meftahi (did not show up)	Hamidreza Esmaili Kherameh (did not show up)
Mehran Esfandiari	Hossein Bahrami (did not show up)	Mohammadali Ghafari (did not show up)
Mohammad Bahrami (did not show up)	Mohammad Salehi (did not show up)	Nazemi Hassan (did not show up)
	Mohamed Reza Natghi	Seydali Kalantari
	Mojtaba Soleymani

IRAQ

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
N/A	N/A	Haidar d. Mohammed (did not show up)
		Mohammed H. Bneed (did not show up)
		Muhammad A. Ali (did not show up)

JAPAN

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Chieko Sakamoto	N/A	N/A
Kaori Ishihara
Yuumi Tsaji

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Kuniaki Sunichi	Hiroshi Sugai	Tatsuya Katakai
		Tsubasa Arai

KAZAKHSTAN

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Mariya Gridneva	N/A	N/A

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Kanat Rakhimov	Dossan Avgambayev	Bulat Nurabyev
Rustam Yermanov	Telzhan Kebdeiv

LEBANON

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
N/A	N/A	Andre Nakad

MONGOLIA

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Urtnasan Enkhbold (did not show up)	N/A	Danzan Dagvadorj (did not show up)

NEPAL

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Bikash Khaniya (did not show up)	N/A	N/A
Suraj Thapa (did not show up)

NEW ZEALAND

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Mariaa Kairau (did not show up)	Kitiara Peni-Terekia	Alesha Harley
		Penita Davies

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Iain Gifford	Freddy Mainini	Cameron Prebble
Karena Koria	Michael Hedgeman	Jed Butters
Richard Wooster	Paraire Fletcher	Tai Tere
Sam Green

PAKISTAN

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Mehreen Gul (did not show up)	Saima Khan (did not show up)	N/A
Uzma Yousef Zaidi (did not show up)

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Ghuzanfar Sarfranz (did not show up)	Abbas Ali (did not show up)	Abdul Karim (did not show up)
Imran Butt (did not show up)	Imran Hussain (did not show up)	Ali Basharat (did not show up)
Muhammad Younas (did not show up)	Jafar Hussian Qureshi (did not show up)	Muhammad Kamran Javed (did not show up)
Rizwan (did not show up)	Jaffar Ali (did not show up)	Nasir Haidar (did not show up)
	Kashif Nadeem (did not show up)	Syed Khizar Hayat Shah (did not show up)
	Masqood Ejaz (did not show up)
	Sajjad Ahmed (did not show up)

RUSSIA

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Anna Kukarina	Ekaterina Belyaeva	N/A
Maria Zhukovskaya ((did not show up)
Marina Tolkach (did not show up)

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Anton Shakuto (did not show up)	Konstantin Barnashev (did not show up)	Alexander Ibragimov (did not show up)
Artem Silin (did not show up)	Ramil Adgezalov	Yaroslav Legaev
Pavel Kozlov (did not show up)	Vladislav Korpachev (did not show up)
Sergey Mishkin

SOUTH AFRICA

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Bikila Thembakazi (did not show up)	Mamokete Moleme (did not show up)	Tamara Booi
Masedisa Mojaki	Prudence Nthabiseng Monnanyana (did not show up)

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Confidence Chauke (did not show up)	Gumede Senzo (did not show up)	Hembrick Shilubane
Qwathekana Mndwaleli Kenneth	Judas Ngobeni	Mahlangu Kenneth (did not show up)
	Lucky Thulane Richard Shabalala	Mazibuko Khanyisani Laurence
	Mvaxa Mncedisi
	Nonconjo Sbusiso Clive
	Paul Mosioua Mokoena
	Sthembiso Sydney Pama (did not show up)

SPAIN

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Ivan Lopez	Manuel Zafra	Dominingo Quinones (did not show up)

SRI LANKA

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Dilan Galappaththi	Weligoda Gamage Nalaka Lasantha	Weligoda Gamage Ranil Nishantha (did not show up)
Mohamed Jameel Riyas (did not show up)

SWAZILAND

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Sbhamu Mngometulu	Alie Mdluli	Mandla Simelane
Wandile Mndzebele	Neliso Mazibuko	Zwelile Thwala

TURKEY

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Hasan Aslan	Bülent Aslan (did not show up)	N/A

UNITED KINGDOM

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
N/A	Kelly Balmer	Lia Howlett

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Darren Stringer	Olusegun Odunukan	Christian Seal
	Wai Cheung	Miguel Fernandez

UKRAINE

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Konstyantin Nikitenko (did not show up)	Vitaliy Duzenko (did not show up)	Dmytro Goncharov
Serhiy Udovenko (did not show up)	Andriy Rusol (did not show up)	Pavlo Bilyk (did not show up)
	Sergiy Doronin	Volodymyr Saenko

UNITED STATES

Female Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
Kristen O’Connor	N/A	N/A

Male Team Members

Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
N/A	Jacob Wright (did not show up)	Ryan Higdon
	Jim Kelly

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS FOR COUNTRIES
SOUTH AMERICA COUNTRIES		CENTRAL AMERICA COUNTRIES		NORTH AMERICA COUNTRIES
AUSTRALIA	15 Fighters (Female) 20 Fighters (Male)	JAPAN	3 Fighters (Female) 4 Fighters (Male)	PAKISTAN	0 Fighters
BRASIL	1 Fighter (Male)	KAZAKHSTAN	1 Fighter1 (Female) 5 Fighters (Male)	RUSSIA	2 Fighters (Female) 3 Fighters (Male)
CANADA	1Fighter (Female) 10 Fighters (Male)	JAPAN	3 Fighters (Female) 4 Fighters (Male)	SOUTH AFRICA	2 Fighters (Female) 7 Fighters (Male)
GEORGIA	0 Fighter	KAZAKHSTAN	1 Fighter1 (Female) 5 Fighters (Male)	SPAIN	2 Fighters (Male)
GERMANY	1 Fighter (Male)	LEBANON	1Fighter (Male)	SRI LANKA	2 Fighters (Male)
HAITI	0 Fighters	MONGOLIA	0 Fighters	SWAZILAND	6 Fighters (Male)
HUNGARY	2 Fighters (Female) 3 Fighters (Male)	LEBANON	1Fighter (Male)	TURKEY	1 Fighter (Male)
INDIA	0 Fighters	MONGOLIA	0 Fighters	UNITED KINGDOM	2 Fighters (Female) 5 Fighters (Male)
IRAN	4 Fighters	NEPAL	0 Fighters	UKRAINE	3 Fighters (Male)
IRAQ	0 Fighters	NEW ZEALAND	4Fighters (Female) 10 Fighters (Male)	U.S.A.	1 Fighter (Female) 2 Fighters (Male)

LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION - MALE
Country		Name	Win	Country		Name	Win	Comments
Round 1	Canada	Jean LeBlanc	X	Quarter Final	Canada	Jean LeBlanc	X	The Canadian Jean LeBlanc got eliminated in the Semi-final. Darren Stringer from United Kingdom defeat Kanat Rakhimov in the Finals winning the Lightweight Division.
Round 1	Haiti	Did not show up		Quarter Final	Brasil	Reginaldo Assis Firmino
Round 2	Canada	Jean LeBlanc	X	Semi-Final	Canada	Jean LeBlanc
Round 2	Japan	Kuniaki Sunichi		Semi-Final	Kazakhstan	Kanat Rakhimov	X
Round 3	Canada	Jean LeBlanc	X	Final	Kazakhstan	Kanat Rakhimov
Round 3	Australia	Daniel Larkins		Final	United Kingdom	Darren Stringer	X

LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION - MALE
Country		Name	Win	Country		Name	Win	Comments
Round 1	Canada	Sean Devlin		Quarter Final	Brasil	Reginaldo Assis Firmino		The Canadian Sean Devlin got eliminated in the The First Round. Darren Stringer from United Kingdom defeat Kanat Rakhimov from Kazakhstan in the Finals winning the Lightweight Division.
Round 1	Brasil	Reginaldo Assis Firmino	X	Quarter Final	Canada	Jean LeBlanc	X
Round 2	Brasil	Reginaldo Assis Firmino	X	Semi-Final	Canada	Jean LeBlanc
Round 2		Bye		Semi-Final	Kazakhstan	Kanat Rakhimov	X
Round 3	Brasil	Reginaldo Assis Firmino	X	Final	Kazakhstan	Kanat Rakhimov
Round 3	Australia	Nakia Benny		Final	United Kingdom	Darren Stringer	X

LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION - MALE
Country		Name	Win	Country		Name	Win	Comments
Round 1	Canada	Barry Knudson	X	Quarter Final	Australia	Masayuki Sakamoto	X	The Canadian Barry Knudson got eliminated in the Third Round. Darren Stringer from United Kingdom defeat Kanat Rakhimov from Kazakhstan in the Finals winning the Lightweight Division.
Round 1	Mongolia	Did not show up		Quarter Final	Swaziland	Wandile Mndzebele
Round 2	Canada	Barry Knudson	X	Semi-Final	Australia	Masayuki Sakamoto
Round 2		Bye		Semi-Final	United Kingdom	Darren Stringer	X
Round 3	Canada	Barry Knudson		Final	United Kingdom	Darren Stringer	X
Round 3	Australia	Masayuki Sakamoto	X	Final	Kazakhstan	Kanat Rakhimov

LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION - MALE
Country		Name	Win	Country		Name	Win	Comments
Round 1	Canada	Mathieu Boucher	X	Quarter Final	Swaziland	Wandile Mndzebele		The Canadian Mathieu Boucher got eliminated in the Third Round. Darren Stringer from United Kingdom defeat Kanat Rakhimov from Kazakhstan in the Finals winning the Lightweight Division.
Round 1	Haiti	Did not show up		Quarter Final	Australia	Masayuki Sakamoto	X
Round 2	Canada	Mathieu Boucher	X	Semi-Final	Australia	Masayuki Sakamoto
Round 2	Iran	Mehran Esfandiari		Semi-Final	United Kingdom	Darren Stringer	X
Round 3	Canada	Mathieu Boucher		Final	United Kingdom	Darren Stringer	X
Round 3	Swaziland	Wandile Mndzebele	X	Final	Kazakhstan	Kanat Rakhimov

UNITED KINGDOM V/S KAZAKHSTAN
Country	Name	Win	Comments
United Kingdom	Darren Stringer	X	Darren Stringer from United Kingdom was the winner of the Lightweight Division.
Kazakhstan	Kanat Rakhimov

MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION - MALE
Country		Name	Win	Country		Name	Win	Comments
Round 1	Canada	Rene Dupuis	X	Quarter Final	Australia	Alan Taylor		The Canadian Rene Dupuis got eliminated in the The Second Round. Olusegun Odunukan from United Kingdom defeat Jason Baltov from Australia in the Finals, winning the Middleweight Division.
Round 1	India	Did not show up		Quarter Final	Australia	Jason Baltov	X
Round 2	Canada	Rene Dupuis		Semi-Final	Australia	Jason Baltov	X
Round 2	South Africa	Paul Mosioua Mokoena	X	Semi-Final	Ukraine	Sergiy Doronin
Round 3	South Africa	Paul Mosioua Mokoena		Final	Australia	Jason Baltov	X
Round 3	Australia	Alan Taylor	X	Final	United Kingdom	Olusegun Odunukan

UNITED KINGDOM V/S AUSTRALIA
Country	Name	Win	Comments
United Kingdom	Olusegun Odunukan	X	Olusegun Odunukan from United Kingdom was the winner of the Middleweight Division.
Australia	Jason Baltov

HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION - MALE
Country		Name	Win	Country		Name	Win	Comments
Round 1	Canada	Robert Poirier	X	Quarter Final	Canada	Robert Poirier		The Canadian Robert Poirier got eliminated in the Quarter Final. Zsombor Magosi from Hungary defeat Bulat Nurabyev from Kazakhstan in the Finals, winning the Heavyweight Division.
Round 1	Pakistan	Did not show up		Quarter Final	Kazakhstan	Bulat Nurabyev	X
Round 2	Canada	Robert Poirier	X	Semi-Final	Kazakhstan	Bulat Nurabyev	X
Round 2		BYE		Semi-Final	Ukraine	Volodymyr Saenko
Round 3	Canada	Robert Poirier	X	Final	Kazakhstan	Bulat Nurabyev
Round 3	New Zealand	Jed Butters		Final	Hungary	Zsombor Magosi	X

MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION - FEMALE
Country		Name	Win	Country		Name	Win	Comments
Round 1	Canada	Monelle Richard	X	Final	Canada	Monelle Richard		Naomi Wood from Australia defeat Monelle Richard from Canada in the Finals winning the Middleweight Division.
Round 1	Pakistan	Did not show up		Final	United Kingdom	Naomi Wood	X
Quarter Final	Canada	Monelle Richard	X
Quarter Final	Australia	Caroline Cox
Semi-Final	Canada	Monelle Richard	X
Semi-Final	Australia	Michelle Harmer

CANADA V/S AUSTRALIA
Country	Name	Win	Comments
Australia	Naomi Wood	X	Naomi Wood from Australia was the winner of the Middleweight Division.
Canada	Monelle Richard