Tuesday, November 22, 2016
World Sambo Championships 2016
2016 31st FIAS World Sambo Championships
Sofia Bulgaria
The first FIAS World Championships was held in 1985 in San
Sebastian Spain, the British Team for that event was Martin Clarke, Trevor
Roberts and Tony Bull representing the British Amateur Wrestling Association,
The British Sombo Federation was formed a year later and would be the FIAS
affiliated body. Martin managed a 5th place. As this event was held
in the Basque Region of Spain, national politics was involved and instead of
being a 3-day event the National Government made FIAS take just one day to
finalise the event. At the first World Championships there was not the numbers
of today.
This was the Bulgarian Federation 60th Anniversary
so a meal was arranged for Delegates it consisted of traditional Bulgarian Food
and Wine followed by Traditional Music and dancing a fantastic night enjoyed by
all
The large stadium had 3 mat areas Mat 1 Sport Sambo Women
Mat 2 Sport Sambo Men Mat 3 Combat Sambo, large TV screens were situated around
the building so you could see the matches from every angle and the whole thing
was streamed live on the net
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| Putin is a Keen Sambo enthusiast |
The standard throughout the Worlds is getting better year on
year, so we saw the big throws, Knockouts etc. in the early rounds but as we
neared the finals matches were becoming extremely close. Not the most exiting
for the uninitiated but for the Sambo enthusiast you saw some exciting tactical
battles. In the past we saw the Eastern Block Countries (Ex Soviet Union etc.)
but now we are beginning see the emergence of many other countries throughout
the World putting their foot in the door’
The countries who are taking on the established Sambo
countries are only being able to this by training with Financial help from
government or sponsorship. We in Great Britain do not get any financial help
from UKSport even though we are the UKSport recognised body. UKSport are only
interested in Olympic Sports that win Olympic medals with Elite Athletes yet
winning Olympic Medals may be prestigious for UKSport and Government but it has
been proven that it does not encourage people to take up sport with maybe the
one exception cycling. UKSport and the Government must realise that the Olympic
Games is not the be all and end all of Sport. There are many different Sports
in the UK which are not represented in the Olympic Games and these need to be
supported so more people will get the benefits of Sport.
The British Team consisted of Martin Clarke BSF President,
Valerie Clarke BSF EC, Matthew Clempner Combat Sambo Technical Director, Robin
Hyslop SSF, Matt Clempner Combat Sambo, Karl Etherington Sport Sambo, Ryan
Cottom Sport Sambo, Dean Hunt Combat Sambo, Lloyd Sweeney Combat Sambo, Martin
McDwyer Combat Sambo. Apart from Matt Clempner this was the first time the rest
of the Competitors have attended a World Championships.
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| Matt in Action |
Matt Clempner fighting u100 kilo fought on the first day
beating the fighter from Kyrgyzstan then bad luck befell him while fighting on
the ground Matt dislocated his knee so he was out of the competition. This was
a major disappointment as I feel he could have beaten the Bulgarian who went on
to win Bronze
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| Rayn Cottom with Martin Clarke |
None of the other British Fighters won a match but one young
man looks like to have a good future and that was 20-year-old Ryan Cottom. Ryan
is already a very experience BJA International Judo Player but for sometime now
has trained with National Sambo Coach John Clarke at the Warriors Grappling
Academy Sittingbourne he won the British with great panache. His one and only
fight was against the Fighter from Slovenia , he dominated the fight at one
point the Slovenian got a penalty point for passivity as the match was drawing to
a close the score was 8 -7 to the Slovenian. Ryan made a sacrificial attack (in
Judo it is called a Sumi Gaeshi) now many of us that thought that he had scored
4pts but no the referee awarded to the Slovenian. The referee when questioned said
as Ryan dropped on to his back to execute the throw The Slovenian grabbed his leg his
logic was that the Slovenian had countered the initial throw? Now if you get
chance to watch the fight you will have to make up your own mind, Ryan lost 7
-12 BUT he is young and has a great future in front of him
Attached is a poster
for the British Open I hope you will all attend plus look to IBFBCSA@GMAIL.com for more details of Sambo
events in the UK
http://combatdisciplines.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/world-sambo-results-day-1.html
http://combatdisciplines.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/world-sambo-2016-results-day-2.html
http://combatdisciplines.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/world-sambo-day-3-16-results.html
# posted by IBFBCSA @ 6:02 AM 
