The first edition of SportAccord World Combat Games (Fighting Games SportAccord), a multi-sport competition world dedicated to martial arts and combat sports, took place from August 28 to September 5, 2010 in Beijing, China. More than 1000 athletes from five continents have participated and 118 gold medals were distributed.
Two nations were particularly prominent, well ahead of all others
- Russia (1st)
- and China, the host country (2nd).
Yet one might have expected to see others shine as inventors of the 13 sports on the Games:
- Japan through aikido, judo, ju-jitsu, karate, kendo, kick boxing ("low kick") and sumo;
- Great Britain through the boxing;
- the United States through kickboxing (semi-contact "and" full contact ") and" grappling (one of two styles of fighting shown);
- Thailand with the muay thai;
- Russia thanks to sambo;
- thanks to the Korea Taekwondo
- Greece through the "Pankration" (one of two wrestling styles shown);
- And China thanks to wushu.
Japan is ranked 6th, 7th Thailand, South Korea 18th, Britain 26th, the U.S. 40th and 41st Greece.
managed to climb into the top 8 nations without their own traditional sport program:
- Ukraine (3rd);
- France (4th), who could do even better in the next edition since French boxing savate, only demonstration in 2010, the program will be the next Games in 2013;
- Italy (5th);
- and Spain (8th).
Russia stands out as better nation warrior with 18 gold medals and a total of 39 medals (1st nation to male competitors).
China, just behind, received 15 gold medals out of a total of 31 medals (1st nation for female competitors).
following individual winners in both countries:
RUSSIA
KORZHAVIKH Pavel: Ju-Jitsu Men 62 kg
Nebolsin Dmitry: Ju-Jitsu Men 85 kg
MAGAMEDBEKOV Yusup: Kickboxing Fullcontact 75 kg Men
LUKASHOV Denis : Kickboxing Lowkick 63.5 kg
ABDULMEDJIDOV Shamil Men: Men 67 kg kickboxing Lowkick
Gubar Evgeny: Kickboxing Lowkick 81 kg Men
BOKOVA Fatima: Kickboxing Women 60 kg Lowkick
Artem Levin: Men 75 kg Muaythai
OMOKTUEV Bair: Men 74 kg Sambo
ALIEV Marianna: Women 56 kg Sambo
ONOPRIENKO Ekaterina: Women 64 kg Sambo
Mongush Nachyn: Sumo Lightweight Men
Alan Karaev: Sumo Heavyweight Men Alan Karaev
: Sumo Open Division Men
Zhigalov Anna: Sumo Heavyweight Women
KORESHKOV Andrey: Pankration Wrestling 80 kg Men
Magomedov Mayindur: Pankration Wrestling 90 kg Men
IVSHINA Tatiana Nanquan Wushu & Nandao all-around Women
Russia has the only competitor at the Games get two gold medals: the colossal Alan Karaev (1m98, 175kg). Also note that the Russians excel in sport mixed (meaning: Technical gripping + percussion), namely: the ju-jitsu, sambo combat and the pankration, not to mention the 5 gold medals in kick-boxing.
CHINA
ZOU Shiming: 46-49 kg Men Boxing
ZHANG Jiawei: Boxing 56 kg Men
ZHANG Jianting: Boxing 75 kg Men
MENG Fanlong: Boxing 81 kg Men
ZHANG Zhilei: Boxing 91 kg + Men
QIN Qian Judo Open Category Women
SUN Yanan: 48kg Wrestling Women
Qin Xiaoqing: 72kg Wrestling Women
LV Yong Xu: Wushu Daoshu & Gunshu all-around Men
HUANG Ying Qi: Wushu Taijiquan & Taijijian all-around Men
LI hai Ming: 56 kg Men Wushu
XU Jia Heng: 85 kg Men Wushu Nan
MA: Women Wushu Changquan
E Mei Die: 52 kg Women Wushu
WANG Gui Xian Wushu Women 60 kg
Five gold medals in boxing (Olympic sport traditionally dominated by the United States and Cuba) and seven in wushu (national sport)! Thanks to these two sports, China moved up to second place in the overall standings by nation.
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