World Championships 2026 in Colombia
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2026
CARTAGENA – COLOMBIA
60 YEARS OF WKF – FOUNDED 1964
TOP European female experts with new referee licenses
After the International Referee Seminar in Minsk, three new female European referees with official WKF licenses were positively assessed. With our new referees, the number of internationally licensed female referees increases to 17.
The youngest in the trio is Ksenia NOVIKOVA from Belarus, who received the C license after the seminar and an excellent exam.
The Russian expert Liliya VOROGUSHINA has been active in the scene as a referee for a long time and has been awarded the International B License.
By decision of the WKF Board, Mrs. Olga Nikolaevna STRIZHAKOVA was awarded the highest WKF A license. She has many years of experience as an international referee and, in the opinion of many WKF board members present in Minsk, was one of the best referees, both as a judge and in the ring.
In addition to Russian, Ms. STRIZHAKOVA also speaks fluent Spanish und English and will be another important expert and sporting link between Europe and South America at the upcoming World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia.
The WKF Board congratulates all three ladies and is pleased to have other highly qualified international referees from Europe on the team.
The next Latin American Referee Seminar under the direction of Amateur World President Carlos SUAREZ will take place on November 11th and 12th, before the Pan American Open in Bucaramanga, Colombia. Numerous new licenses will be awarded there, and existing ones renewed. It’s well known that our Latin American sports friends always have top-trained officials.
WKF PRO-AM division – for our best amateurs!
From the beginning in WKF we split very clearly amateur and pro business, in ring sport as well as in PPF and MMA.World wide valid rankings is the simply proof!
Mr. Carlos SUAREZ from Argentina is many Years expert in our sport and our very active World president for the huge WKF AMATEUR division.
Vice-president for the amateur division is Mr. Danil KARPENKO from WKF RUSSIA.
This is to follow many requests and wishes of our clients , managers and thousands of our fighters from all over the World.
On the next World Championships in Cartagena in autumn 2026 we have all fighting divisions, for male and females.
In WKF history we present AMATEUR BOXING, for male and females!
Today we are very successfully not only in pro sport but of course in amateur business too.
With great pleasure we want your poster of WKF sanctioned tournaments, with our logo on the poster. We would like to help with on-line advertising free of charge, of course. Short reports after would be great.
We just want to remind every WKF country president World wide to send fighter profiles of your amateurs or just non-professional male/female fighters in ring sport. We have same system like in other pro sport in WKF. We offer the chance to fight in all 6 ring sport divisions for our great demand WKF Champion belts.
Here are our 5 WKF divisions, with valid World ranking lists, rules, title fight minimum requirements and much more
PRO – AM / PPF / SANDA / PRO RING SPORT / MMA / BOXING
Our WKF PRO-AM titles has a great value because of our World wide network with more than 140 member countries you have the chance to fight not only at home. No fighter will lose his/her amateur status , he/she can fight still on any tournament, any World Championship World wide. You can be sure just to face another amateur fighter with perhaps 15 to 20 fights and not real pro with more than 100 fights.
The rules and regulations for PRO-AM are easy to understand and waiting for your download. All you have to do is just send your fighter profile and jpg photos like always and we post your team online in the PRO AM World ranking. Because: only male/female fighters in our PRO AM World ranking are qualified to fight for our WKF titles.
For further requests or interest on any possible PRO-AM title fights do not hesitate to send a mail , please.
Overview of our WKF forms or Kata disciplines
Dear friends in traditional martial arts!
As everybody know, our next European Championship is coming up in June 22nd to 29th 2025 in Chisinau, Moldova.
Today we have 6 categories for forms / Kata / poomse / Hyong / Taolu / musical creative etc.
To avoid any mistake or misunderstandings on the tatami or mat, we would like to remind you kindly one more time to read carefully the online WKF rule book for forms.
To see what is a WKF recognized traditional form, have a look here for Japanese and Korean forms.
What are the dress codes? When does the timer start e.g. for traditional forms with and without weapons ? Any traditional form / Kata / Taolu etc. can be customized, but it still has to be recognizable. From our official WKF recognized list and a traditional Japanese or Korean form or Kata!
In creative and freestyle: also compiled (with parts of existing forms) form using traditional techniques is permitted. What is the time limit in creative forms and soft style forms?
Traditional Forms must be using traditional moves only. A traditional Form / Kata / Pommse / Hyong / Taolu etc. must resemble a traditional work, an adaptation will be acceptable if added moves are of a traditional nature.
Any so called “allstyle” form is not a traditional one!
For all creative forms are just the division 4 and 5 creative forms with music, with and without weapon.
We thank you for the cooperation so far and wish all of us many traditional participants and a successful
WKF European Championship 2025
WKF now open for new partners in Europe
is the oldest and today perhaps the largest World wide sanctioning body since 1964 for Kickboxing, Thai boxing, MMA and SANDA.
For amateur events as well as for professionals.
Since March 1st 2024 is our BOXING / BKFC World division, for amateur and professionals !
World president is WKF HUNGARY president and TOP manager Mr. Daniel Z. HIRLAU, contact by e-mail
Today we have continental office on 6 continents and more than 140 active member countries World wide.
Now we want to invite YOUR BOXING champions for international events and we are looking for new WKF country presidents, promoters and managers in Europe.
If you´re interested to be part of the WKF family send just a mail to our WKF Europe office.
You will find our WKF World head office main web site on www.wkfworld.com
For full information’s about PPF – Pro Point Fighting click here, for Sanda here
On the top right hand you will find the translater for other languages
Here are our 6 pro divisions, with valid World ranking lists, rules, title fight minimum requirements and much more
PRO – AM / PPF / SANDA / PRO RING SPORT / MMA / BOXING
Do you know all of our 6 continental websites?
WKF ASIA , WKF AFRICA, WKF EUROPE ,
WKF LATIN AMERICA and CARIBBEAN ,
WKF AUSTRALIA and WKF NORTH AMERICA
MMA in the WKF World wide network
WKF – World Kickboxing Federation – is one of the greatest and World wide sanctioning body for Kick boxing and MMA in amateur and pro.
On our web site mma.wkfworld.com you could find all important facts and news about MMA in our World sanctioning body.
More than 55.000 hits just in 2024 is the result of serious and hard work.
Dimitris PAPAKONSTANTINOU – new World MMA director
is another Greek on the world association board.
He is coach of numerous professional Greek MMA fighters competing in UFC , Bellator, Cage warriors, Fight Night, King of the cage, Abu Dhabi warriors Oktagon etc.
Dimitris holds his masters degree in sports management by university of Peloponnese and several Black Belts as well.
For any request in MMA division contact his office by MAIL
Just fill in the new online fighter profile here, add a jpg photo and we will post you in our MMA European or World ranking. For male and female!
For any further requests contact our WKF head office by mail and visit our WKF MMA and the main web site www.wkfworld.com
WKF EUROPE needs more female officials
WKF HEAD OFFICE work very hard in cooperation with our IRC- “International rules committee” to train our international officials and referees, to answer protests and requests for the competition rules and to develop our various WKF rules.
History has shown nothing is set in stone!
Our last World referee seminar´s 2023 in Skofije, Slovenia, Alicante, Spain 2024 and Chisinau, Moldova 2025 appointed several new female WKF referees with international licenses.
Valid also for BOXING and BARE KNUCKLE division and for MMA!
Today we again have 14 female officials worldwide with an international WKF referee license.
The past has shown that we need more officially WKF licensed ladies in Europe and World wide.
To get the WKF license or to extend existing one, the next option is 2025 International referee Seminar in Mielec, Poland, October 20th, invitation is HERE.
For the World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia, we need more European Referees, male and female!
The next but one World referee seminar will be held now in November 2026, the weekend just before the World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia.
As the world knows, our WKF was celebrating 60 years of existence last World Championships in Spain in 2024. We expect in Cartagena 2026 again more than 1.500 Champions, man and women.
Many TOP countries returned to our WKF ! 🙂
Without valid WKF license – without exception – you are not an official in our World Kickboxing Federation!!
Today WKF has more than 150 international licensed referees on 6 continents. Like all knowledge, more and more strong female champions and athletes are fighting
Of these today unfortunately, we only have
14 WORLD CLASS female officials
Our executive board therefore emphatically requests all WKF country presidents to send more male / female referees 
To all our country presidents World wide:
send more female referees to the next World referee seminar on October 2026 in Cartgena!
It is in your hands and your own responsibility …
we just need
more female officials
in our WKF EUROPE
Иван Деркаченко – Iwan DERKACHENKO, CIS supervisor
At the last World Congress in Alicante, Spain, the last CIS Supervisor Roman LOGISCH from WKF GERMANY was unanimously elected new WKF Secretary General by the 60 presidents present.
Ivan DERKACHENKO from Minsk, Belarus, was also unanimously elected as his successor by the Board.
WKF division World Presidents Carlos SUAREZ / ARG, Daniel HIERLAU / HUN and Annis DOMETIOU / GRE were pleased to confirm the appointment and look forward to a good cooperation.
Mr. Derkachenko is well-known and high respected as a manager and expert in our sport.
He will also be serving as a supervisor at the next upcoming WKF Championships in East and West and will therefore be the link between Eastern and Western Europe.
Next WKF Wold referee seminar 2026 in Colombia
WKF COLOMBIA president Mr. Luis MEDIOMUNDO is the host of the next WKF World referee seminar In November 2026.
Venue is the amazing 4 star main Hotel in Cartagena.
This is the perfect weekend, just before the World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia.
For the second time our World referee seminar takes place in Colombia.
We got already many requests from our male / female referees and officials from 6 continents and we hope everybody who would need Visa start in time at least 8 weeks before with Visa procedure.
Invitation is here soon!
Registration deadline October 2026
For details about Visa invitations, any requests about airport transfer and more contact our organizing team Mrs. Bianca Daniela BOHORQUEZ , Vice president WKF ONAM COLOMBIA
Our update WKF licensed referee list is here !
Many photos of our international WKF referees here !
All rule books in 4 languages and more free to down load here !
All International WKF referees who not has attended the seminars in Triest 2023 or Alicante 2024 or Moldova 2025 must extend their license in Cartagena. The extended license is valid for three Years again. Many photos from all WKF seminars since 2011 are here in the gallery!
Next World referee seminar in autumn 2027 in Europe, in the main Hotel before the upcoming European Championships 2027 !
Please note:
without valid WKF license you are
not qualified official for WKF events !