MADRID, 29 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish men’s and women’s kata teams have won bronze medals at the Karate World Cup, which is being held in Budapest, after beating, respectively, the teams from Kuwait and Morocco.
The men’s team, made up of Sergio Galán López, Raúl Martín Romero, Óscar García Cuadrado and Salvador Balbuena, beat the Kuwait team for the bronze medal, in a final in which only one tenth separated the two teams.
For its part, the women’s team, made up of Paola García Lozano, Raquel Roy, María López Pintado and Gema Morales, won forcefully against the Moroccans with a difference of eight tenths.
The national coach, Francisco Salazar, was very satisfied with the result, although he considers that the projection for next year’s World Championship in Pamplona could be “spectacular.”
These two bronzes allow Spain to add five medals in this World Cup, after the silver of Damián Quintero and María Torres and the bronze of Paola García Lozano, waiting for the final of the women’s team kumite, in which the Spanish will seek gold against Japan.
In parakarate, Spain already has a gold, a silver and a bronze in the absence of the wheelchair final for Isabel Fernández, who is defending the world title for the third consecutive time. The gold went to Carlos Huertas Ruiz, the silver to Lucía Sánchez and the bronze to Vicente Yángüez.