World Muay Thai Championship 2012

In St. Petersburg from September 6 to 13, 2012 World Thai Boxing Championship 2012 (IFMA Muay Thai World Championships 2012) was held. The number of teams of the participating countries is 100, and the athletes are about 1500.

In the overall team standings of the Championship, the Russian team took the first place, Belarus took the second place, and Thailand took the third place. Among class A men, athletes from Thailand won five gold medals, Russia received 4 gold medals, Belarus - 3. Belarusian Andrey Kulebin was recognized as the best fighter of the Championship!

Not without scandals. Belarusian fighter Vitaly Gurkov after the fight with Zainalbid Magomedov (Russia) refused to go to the awards ceremony, disagreeing with the controversial decision of the judges.

Class A men

45 kg. Abdulkerim Salvatov (Russia) vs Abdulovsid Baranov (Tajikistan) 48 kg. Alexander Prokuda (Ukraine) vs Sirikam Manus (Thailand) 51 kg. Hong Jiang (Sweden) vs Radsarong Sonsiri (Thailand) 54 kg. Andrei Zayats (Belarus) vs Wongs Priich (Thailand) 57 kg. Kanprich Channarong (Thailand) vs Konstantin Trishin (Ukraine)

60 kg. Mikhail Vasilioglo (Ukraine) vs Thoekat Suwat (Thailand) 63.5 kg. Akephon Klima (Thailand) vs Igor Lyubchenko (Ukraine) 67 kg. Andrei Kulebin (Belarus) vs Jüri Kehl (Germany) 71 kg. Zainalbid Magomedov (Russia) vs Vitaly Gurkov (Belarus) 75 kg. Dmitry Valent (Belarus) vs Konstantin Khuzin (Russia) 81 kg. Artema Levin (Russia) vs Mark Debonte (Belgium) 86 kg. Artem Vakhitov (Russia) vs Sadibov (Sweden) 91 kg. Denisa Goncharenok (Belarus) vs Yusuf Ibragimov (Uzbekistan) +91 kg. Tsotne Rogava (Ukraine) vs Andrey Bokan (Estonia)