Results from President's Cup, Russian Sambo competition

The President's Cup Sambo competition is over and here is the description of the event along with the results.

The President's Cup was created only a few years ago by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the black-belt judoka himself. It was made to promote the competition among Sambo schools from different countries as well as to work as a tool of cooperation and friendship. The idea is to figure out, which country has the strongest Sambo team. The strongest team gets the President's Cup.

There are two category in the competition. One is Sport Sambo, which resembles Japanese Martial Art of Judo, but of course has differences as well. Sport Sambo is the basis for all other types of Sambo, including the Combat Sambo, the second Sambo category, where Fedor Emelianenko participated. You can punch and kick in Combat Sambo, unlike in Sport Sambo, and Combat Sambo is the Mixed Martial Arts per se.

The rules of the President's Cup are simple: there are nine weight categories in Sport Sambo and two weight categories in Combat Sambo. Only one participant in each weight class is allowed from each country. The country with the best overall result gets the trophy.

Russian Sport Sambo team
The results were just amazing, considering that the strongest Sambo participants around the globe were invited! Of nine Sport Sambo weight classes, seven were won by the Russian fighters (other two went to Armenia and Mongolia)! Of two weight classes in Combat Sambo, one was won by the Russian (another was won by the Ukranian Aleksander Kolomiec). The Russian winner of the Combat Sambo was unsurprisingly Fedor Emelianenko.

Fedor had three bouts. In the first one, the opponent got three warnings and was removed from the floor-mat. Second bout, where Fedor fought Korean Combat Sambo fighter was stopped for the "obvious dominance". The third and final was won by points. The Bulgarian Combat Sambo fighter managed to take a point in the final from Fedor Emelianenko.

No wonder that after many years of this kind of training Fedor knows how to land (see Fedor Emelianenko vs. Kevin Randleman)
The final results (of 15 participating contries) are:

1. Russia
   
2. Grusia (Georgia)
   
3. Ukraine
   
4. Mongolia
   
5. Azerbaijan
   
6. Bulgaria

© Sambo.ru Minakov Vitaly (the winner in Sport Sambo +100kg category) raises the President's Cup as a sign of victory