{"id":2412,"date":"2026-11-03T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5000.news\/karate-etar-16-medala-bukuresht-kontakt-open-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:12:18","slug":"karate-etar-16-medala-bukuresht-kontakt-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/karate-etar-16-medala-bukuresht-kontakt-open-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Etar karate club returns from Bucharest with 16 medals, including six golds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karate club Etar from Veliko Tarnovo finished the international Bucharest Contact Open tournament with 16 medals.<\/strong> Seven club competitors won six gold, four silver and six bronze medals, according to local outlets Borba and Veliko Tarnovo 24.<\/p>\n<p>In its 23rd edition, the tournament reportedly brought together around 1,000 participants from 60 clubs in 12 countries. Athletes coached by Nikolay Lesichkov competed across several age groups and disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Among the medallists is Amira Abulibde, who won two kumite titles: girls under 18 in the under-59 kg division and women in the under-61 kg division. Darina Kabakchieva took first place in kata in two children's age groups, while Georgi Markov also won a junior title.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolay Nikolov, Denislav Radev, Maria Valerieva and Mihaela Dimitrova also earned medals. The results were reported on 1\u20132 November 2026. This is a report about a completed tournament, not an invitation to a forthcoming event.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borbabg.com\/2026\/11\/01\/karatekite-na-etr-s-poredno\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borba newspaper, 1 November 2026.<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/velikotarnovo24.bg\/news\/karate-klub-etar-vze-16-medala-v-bukuresht-3685news.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veliko Tarnovo 24, 2 November 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Nguyen Hung \/ Unsplash \u2014 illustrative karate clothing, not taken at the Bucharest tournament.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven athletes from Veliko Tarnovo's Etar karate club won 16 medals at the international Bucharest Contact Open: six gold, four silver and six bronze.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veliko-tarnovo","category-oblastta","category-sport","tag-aktualno"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/5000.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/\u041a\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0435-\u2014-\u0441\u044a\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0437\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b-\u0441\u044a\u0441-\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0435\u043d-\u0435\u043a\u0438\u043f-Nguyen-Hung-Unsplash-\u0438\u043b\u044e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}