Ilya Smorguner

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Ilja Smorguner (born June 24, 1984 in Leningrad , Russia ) is a German karateka . He is a six-time German champion and vice- world champion in the discipline of individual kata men.

Vice-World Champion 2014 Ilja Smorguner, Kata single men

Life

Ilya Smorguner grew up with his three years younger sister in Leningrad . At the age of seven he came to a Taekwondo school and stayed with this martial art until he migrated to Germany ( Schwerin ) in 1996. In 1998, Smorguner switched to karate in the Shōtōkan association Tokugawa Schwerin, which was organized in SKVD Germany. He became more and more interested in the Kata discipline, joined the DKV in 2004 and became a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional squad . The passion for the Shitō-Ryū style and the move to Mainz in 2006 for professional reasons led to the change to the Budokan Kaiserslautern eV Since then, Ilja has been a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional squad and also trained in the Karate Dōjō Mainz Bretzenheim eV In 2012, he moved for professional reasons to Munich . He has been training with Ralf Brachmann since 2019 .

Smorguner was accepted into the national squad after a second place at the German Championship 2012 in Erfurt . In 2013 he moved to the Shugokan Karate Club in Munich, was German champion and was nominated as a member of the national team for the European championship by national coach Efthimios Karamitsos .

Meanwhile, Smorguner is a five-time German champion and runner-up world champion in the men's individual kata category. He is a software developer by profession .

Smorguner celebrated his greatest success so far in 2014 at the WKF Karate World Championship in Bremen . Here, behind the Japanese Ryo Kiyuna, he was runner-up in the men's individual kata category.

Sporting successes

  • 2020: 1st place German championship in the performance class in Hamburg in Kata singles
  • 2018: 5th place World Cup 2018 in Madrid
  • 2017: 1st place German championship in the performance class in Neumünster in Kata singles
  • 2016: 3rd place in the World Championship in Linz / Austria in Kata singles
  • 2016: 1st place German championship in Bergisch Gladbach
  • 2015: 1st place German Open in Coburg
  • 2015: 1st place German championship in Aschaffenburg
  • 2014: 2nd place World Championship 2014 in Bremen
  • 2014: 1st place German championship in Coburg
  • 2014: 5th place at the European Championships in Tampere
  • 2013: 1st place Istanbul Open
  • 2013: 1st place German championship in Erfurt
  • 2012: 2nd place German championship in Erfurt
  • 2010: 2nd place German championship in Völklingen
  • 2009: 1st place at the Finish Open in Tampere
  • 2008: 2nd place Austrian Open in Salzburg
  • 2007: 1st place Italy Grand Prix in Venice

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.chronik-karate.de/index.php?y=2014&international=1 , accessed on March 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ http://www.karate-bayern.de/aktuelles/1327-portrait-ilja-smorguner.html , accessed on March 25, 2016.
  3. ↑ Florence Niemann: Shinichi's pupils. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 4, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://www.karate.de/downloads/finish/16-analyse-em-wm-senioren-world-games/598-wm-senioren-2014-bremen , accessed on November 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Results of the German Championship 2020 in Hamburg
  6. ↑ Results WM 2018 Kata single men
  7. ^ Result list German championship 2017 in Neumünster
personal data
SURNAME Smorguner, Ilya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German karateka
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad