Israeli pride at the European Kickboxing Championships held last weekend in the city of Budva in Montenegro.
A total of 1,700 competitors competed in the championship, including the Israeli delegation consisting of 22 athletes.
The Israeli kickboxing delegation, which operates in Israel under the "Eilat" association, concludes the championship with a tremendous achievement of 13 medals in total, including 2 gold medals by Monia Hano, a Druze athlete from Julis and Karem Assad, brother of Amir Assad, who recently won the title World kickboxing champion.
The following are the results of the Israeli athletes:
The gold medal for Munia is in the LK Youth Women up to 48 kg category
Gold medal for Karem Assad in the KL Cadet category up to 69 kg
Silver medal for Omar Masarwa in the KL Cadet category up to 52 kg
Silver medal for Noir Haddad Beck in the K1 Youth Youth category up to 56 kg
Silver medal for Niri Dror in the KL cadet category up to 56 kg
Bronze medal for Maserva leaves in the KL Cadet category up to 57 kg
Bronze medal to Amro Padela in the KL Youth up to 69 kg category
Bronze medal for Zohar Maman in the LK women's cadet category up to 56 kg
Bronze medal for Tektuk sweets in the LK youth category up to 54 kg
Bronze medal for the Sultan flute in the LK Youth up to 57 kg category
A bronze medal for Gordon's love in the K1 cadet category up to 60 kg
Bronze medal for Muhammad Jabali in the K1 cadet category up to 60 kg
Bronze medal for Guy Hajjaj in the K1 youth category up to 60 kg
The coaches who accompanied the delegation:
Honey Sex (president of the association and professional director), Nissim Yonah (head of the delegation and coach), Peter Sex, Muhammad Assad, Salim Mustafa, Riman, Avdok Kadar, Kirill Gregory, Alex Der and Ronen Stein.
Honey Sex, president of the Kickboxing Association in Israel and its professional director: "We have won a lot of medals and that means that the association has moved one step further.
40 countries from Europe competed against us, and for us the dream became a reality.
"It is gratifying to see the next generation of athletes and coaches, along with the older ones, succeed so well."
Arik Kaplan, President of the Eilat Association: "The achievements of Israeli athletes in the non-Olympic disciplines continue to bring great satisfaction and respect to the country and after the jiu jitsu and sambo branch, it is now the turn of the kickboxing industry, which returned with 13 medals and 2 gold medals.
This is an industry that best represents the rich Israeli mosaic with Jewish, Druze and Arab athletes. "
Karem Assad with the gold medal from the European Kickboxing Championships,
Munia is at the European Kickboxing Championships,
Karem Assad at the European Kickboxing Championships,