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Cypriot karate athlete wins gold at 2021 EKF Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships

In a thrilling final of Junior Kumite Male -76kg at the 2021 EKF Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships, Loizos Vasilou of Cyprus won a hard-fought title after outscoring Rumil Jafarli of Azerbaijan by 2-1 with a “Yuko” or one-point technique in the last seconds of the bout.

The second day of competition of the 2021 EKF Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships saw the future stars of European Karate giving a demonstration of sensational abilities on the tatami of the Ice Stadium in Tampere (Finland), the competition website said.

A Cyprus Karate Federation press release said that during the second day of the European Karate Junior Championships, Cyprus managed to score ten victories with Andreas Gavriel U16 -52kg, Stavros Charalambides U16 -63kg, Christoforos Kitsios U18 -68kg, Irene Kontou U18 -48kg, Rebekah Economidou U18 -59kg, and five victories by Vasiliou U18 -76

Source: Cyprus News Agency