WKF EUROPE needs more female officials

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Alexandra PETRE / Austria
Milva BRITEZ / Argentina

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.

Olga Nikolaevna STRIZHAKOVA / Russia

History has shown nothing is set in stone

Cornelia GESPERGER / Austria
Gabriela KUWIK / Poland

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. 

 

Lilya VOROGUSHINA / Russia
Ksenia NOVIKAVA / Belarus

 

Valid also for BOXING and BARE KNUCKLE division and for MMA!

Today we again have 19 female officials worldwide with an international WKF referee license.

The past has shown that:

Alexandra KAPPEL / Austria
Tanja HELML / Austria

we need more officially WKF licensed ladies in Europe and World wide.

 

 

 

 

Edita AZIZOVA / Armenia
Patricia STRAK / Poland

To get the WKF license or to extend existing one, the next option is 2026 World referee Seminar in Cartagena, Colombia, before the next World Championships.

For the World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia, we need more European Referees, male and female!

Beatriz REYES / Chile
Sissy CHWASTARZ / Poland

The next but one World referee seminar will be held now in October 2026, the weekend just before the  World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia.

Bianca BORQUEZ / 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!!

Melissa SAILER / Austria
Pana BALADI / Germany

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

 

19 WORLD CLASS female officials

Susanna ARRIGHI / Argentina 

Our executive board therefore emphatically requests all WKF country presidents to send more male / female referees 
 
 

To all our country presidents World wide:

Monica DURAN / Colombia
Luz-Carine GOMEZ / Colombia

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