Sandro Massarotti
Sandro Massarotti (born July 5, 1990 in Bern , Switzerland ) is a Swiss karateka with Italian roots.
Career
At the age of 10, Massarotti began karate training in Ostermundigen (Bern). He has the 1st Dan and has been practicing the Shitō-Ryū and Goju-Ryu styles since 2000 . Sandro Massarotti was a member of the national karate team of the SKF Swiss Karate Federation from 2006 to 2013 . Today he trains in Goju Kan Bern together with his trainer Erik Golowin.
successes
On March 26, 2014, Sandro Massarotti announced his retirement after 10 years of competition.
In May 2013 Massarotti competed at the Elite European Championships in Budapest. In November he came to the Swiss Championships in Friborg as the overall winner (Grand Slam winner) of all Swiss Karate League (Sursee, Liestal and Windisch) . For the second time in a row he won the gold medal and has won the Swiss championship six times in his career. At the same time, he won the Swiss Karate League Cup for the third time in a row . In mid-December he started at the Goju-Kai World Cup in Mumbai (India) and then lost to Indonesia in the second round.
In 2012 he won the Swiss championship and the Swiss Karate League Cup in the Kata Male Individual category and represented Switzerland in Tenerife at the Elite European Championships and in Paris at the Elite World Championships. In the same year he reached the 7th place at the Karate1 Premier League in Dordrecht (Netherlands).
In 2011 Massarotti was selected for the U21 European Championship in Belgrade (Serbia) and was able to qualify for the quarter-finals there; in the end, he finished 7th. In July Massarotti started for the first time at the Style Europa-Cup Goju-Kai in Budapest (Hungary); there he took 7th place in the category Kata Male Seniors. He was a finalist in the Swiss Championships in Zurich . In 2010 he reached 3rd place in the Swiss championship in Zurich after a difficult year in 2009.
In February 2008 Massarotti started in the individual and team categories in the Junior Karate European Championship in Trieste (Italy), where he reached 5th place in the team. The Senior Karate European Championship in Tallinn (Estonia) followed in May . Three weeks later the Kata Team traveled to the European Regional Championships in Maribor (Slovenia), where they again achieved 5th place. In October 2008 the Kata team won the Swiss championship again.
In February 2007, Sandro Massarotti's kata team took part in the official European Junior Karate Championships in Izmir (Turkey). In the same year they also took part in the Junior Karate World Championship in Istanbul (Turkey). Massarotti started in the world championship in the category Kata Male Individual Cadet and got into the 2nd round. In the Swiss championship, he won the Swiss championship title in both the individual and the team category.
In 2006 Massarotti took 3rd place in the World Cup Goju Ryu in Marsciano (Italy). In the same year he and his new team (Yanik Gereon and Roger Bauer) achieved the vice-Swiss title in Biel in the category Kata Team Male Juniors. At the same time he achieved various victories in the individual as well as in the Kata team category throughout the year. At the end of 2006 Massarotti was accepted into the official Swiss national karate team.
In 2005 he and his team brought the title of Swiss Master to Bern in the Kata Team Male Cadets category , after which the team around Matthieu Hulliger, Clint Balser and Sandro Massarotti had prepared for it over a year. This was Massarotti's first important title in the karate scene.
Successes in the categories Kata Team and Kata Individual from 2004 to 2014 have been:
- 6 × Swiss champions
- 2 × Vice Swiss Champion
- 3rd place World Championship Goju Ryu Youth
- 2 × 5th place European Championship Junior Kata Team
- 7th place European Championship U21
- 7th place European Championship Goju Kai Seniors
- 3rd place at the third Golden League tournament 2007 in Salzburg
- Swiss Karate League Cup winner 2011/2012/2013
social commitment
In June 2012 Massarotti had the opportunity to travel to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). He spent two weeks there with his trainer Erik Golowin, who is responsible for the martial arts project at Sport-the-Bridge. During this time they taught street children in karate and trained the camp's trainers with special sessions and trainings. In addition, a weekend seminar with the Ethiopian national karate team took place, in which athletes from all over Ethiopia took part.
In the same month he traveled to Thailand to help with a project with street children there. He taught the children karate for a week and was able to bring them closer to martial arts. In 2013 he traveled to Thailand for the second time to continue working on his project "Karate". The number of children increased from 12 to a good 50. The goal is to lead a training camp for several days at least once a year.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page 3, My Zytig October 2012 ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.4 MB)
- ↑ Vice-Swiss title in the discipline Kata Elite. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved December 25, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.karate.ch/skv_webnews/archiv.php?month=10,2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Massarotti, Sandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss karateka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |