Martial Arts Olympics “Baltic Open 2017”

Latvia, Riga, May 13-14 year 2017

From May 13 to May 14 year 2017 in Riga, Latvia, The Martial Arts Olympics Baltic Open 2017 will take place. The event will happen in the Olympic Sport center Electrum.

In this great sportive project there are no first and second, all ways of fighting styles are equal. All kinds of Martial Arts will present their specific, different in techniques and history of growing.

In the program of competition:

• Aikido
• Judo
• Belt wrestling
• Vinchun
• Grappling
• Karate
• Kiokusinkai
• Kickboxing
• Kosiki karate
• Kungfu
• MMA
• Pankration
• Free style fighting
• K-1 and others

More than 300 million in the world are studying different kinds of Martial Arts.

Running of such event is a great possibility for Latvia to collect a big amount of foreign guests, to show them tolerant and modern image of the state.

In Martial Arts Olympics Baltic Open 2017 near two thousand sportsmen will participate. The ages of sportsmen are from six up to eighty.

Countries – participants:

Estonia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, USA, Russia, Portugal, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Italy, Germany, Belarus.

The opening ceremony will be conducted at May 13^th at 7 pm and will include “The Marathon of champions” in such disciplines as:

• professional boxing;
• MMA;
• free style fighting;
• kosiki (tough) karate;
• K-1;
• pankration.