From the special reporter "Vijesti"
On Saturday, Montenegrin fighter Nemanja Mikulić has a chance to bring a medal to Montenegrin karate at the European championships. He will fight for bronze, as he stopped in the fight to enter the final of the 59th EP in Zadar.
The new standards of the organization of the best and most massive championship in the fantastically functional hall "Krešimir Ćosić" gave the referees the opportunity to have a perfect overview, video control, but our representative reached the semi-finals and came through three successful challenges that he spent in the most important match, so he attacked the body of the Italian De Viva was not scored to enter the final.
Although the youngest in the skeleton up to 75 kilograms, the 20-year-old fighter from Bijela won the Swiss Thirmans with a furious stoppage, then lost 6:0 to the winner of the Belgian Youth Olympics, Quentin Mondini, and after the challenge broke the rival's strategy and won 7:6.
With eight seconds to go, he also won the Hungarian Herstepaki trophy with a check.
"Inexperienced, he fought to enter the final, he was not allowed to waste the challenge. That's how he enabled the Italian to control the course of the fight," said Slađan Mikulić, father and trainer of the young fighter.
And the mistakes kept coming, all to the detriment of the selected Almir Cecunjanin and the selector Milena Milačić. The injustice towards Vladimir Mijač was especially painful.
In the fierce competition in the first three rounds in the kata, he seemed the safest for two convincing victories, but also an incomprehensible defeat by the Swede of Chinese roots, Wu.
He was a more precise, stronger, safer, more determined karateka from Bar, but the result was 41,75:41,73 in favor of his rival. Inexplicably, two of the seven judges gave Vu too high marks.
"That's behind me now, I've only received congratulations. I have to prepare to defend the team's kata medal," said Mijač.
Our other competitors were not constant. After a draw, Nemanja Jovović lost to the Italian by the referee's decision, Milena Jovanović beat the European champion - Croatian Golomba, and then was eliminated by a competitor from Poland.
After the elimination of the European champion, the Italian Martini, Nikola Malović also lost to Brezančić from Serbia.
"I took off after the victory over the favorite and completely tactically missed the match of the second round. We have to be at our best, the quality has risen so much that you can't rely only on experience," admitted the trophy fighter.
Tina Vujadinović (up to 61 kg) also lost in the second fight, Vasilisa Bujić (up to 68) in the first fight. Mila Mraković, a debutant in kata, was also defeated in the first match.
On Thursday, the 13th medal in the history of the championship could be brought to Montenegro by three competitors in the lower weight categories.
The men's wrestling team will also play the first match, and the kata team is hoping for a result from Guadalajara and a new medal.
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