Kickboxers from Mykolaiv win four gold medals at the World Championships

At the ICKA World Kickboxing Championship, held on November 5–8 in Madrid, Spain, athletes from Mykolaiv won 11 medals. Representatives of the Olimp Children and Youth Sports School earned 4 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze medals.

The championship brought together more than 1,500 participants from 47 countries. Mykolaiv kickboxers distinguished themselves in both armed and unarmed events.

The athletes’ medals were distributed as follows:

• Anastasiia Altukhova — gold in the unarmed event and silver in the armed event.
• Anastasiia Pedorenko — gold in the unarmed event and silver in the armed event.
• Polina Brovko — gold in the armed event and silver in the unarmed event.
• Anhelina Tsukanova — gold in the unarmed event and bronze in the armed event.
• Sofiia Isachenko — silver in the unarmed event and bronze in the armed event.
• Nadiia Tonkonohova — silver in the armed event.

The athletes’ coach is Iryna Bondarenko.

Source: Mykolaiv City Council.

We previously reported:

• Mykolaiv kickboxers won 27 medals in Odesa
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• Gold, silver and bronze: kickboxers from Korabelnyi District took it all!
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