Iran’s Ahmadi Safa claims silver at WAKO World Kickboxing Championships 2017
Iranian kickboxer Omid Ahmadi Safa has displayed great stand-up combat skills during the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO) World Kickboxing Championships 2017, and snatched a silver medal at the prestigious international tournament.
On Saturday, Ahmadi Safa conceded defeat to Anton Salchak, a representative from Russia, in the low kick minus 51-kilogram weight category of the competitions in the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, and finished as vice champion.
The WAKO World Kickboxing Championships 2017 kicked off on November 3, and will finish on November 12.
WAKO is the international organization of kickboxing. It was founded by American kickboxing promoter Mike Anderson, and his German friend, George Bruckner in Europe in 1976,
The World Association of Kickboxing Organizations aims to develop support and govern the sport at an amateur level in addition to holding world championship events.
WAKO supports 7 different styles of kickboxing: four of them are on the tatami and three of them are in the ring.
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