University karate titles shared across continents in Brasília

Lo Sum Man of Hong Kong, China won women’s kata and He Zijun of China took men’s kata at the Brasília university Combat Sports championship. Natacha Fernandes and Samuele Moscatelli earned the respective silver medals.

Brazil celebrated women’s over-68kg kumite gold through Rosiane de Oliveira Pereira. Other women’s champions included Slovakia’s Natália Vargová at 50kg, Spain’s Insaf Bentama-Serroukh at 55kg and Belgium’s Maryam Ajaray at 61kg.

Türkiye claimed men’s 84kg gold through Eren Akkurt and over-84kg through Kadir Furkan Genç. Iran’s Amirabbas Beigmohammadlou won 75kg, while Spain’s Jorge Pérez Lorite took 60kg and North Macedonia’s Vukashin Jovanovich won 67kg.