European Championship & World League 2003 in Lisbon

An experience and successful long weekend had the German team around Olaf Lotze to the EC in Lisbon. The team consisted of Olaf Lotze, Heike Ahlborn, Heike Anders, Uwe Anders and Sven Wergandt.
After Thursday/Fridday a course took place under the management of Hanshi Hisataka, the Bunkai of the Kata Kudaka no kusanku was explained, the competitions took place to the European Championship and World League 2003 on Saturday/Sunday. 17 nations were involved.

The results for the German team:

Place 1	Heike Ahlborn	Kata Women mpg 3,3MB
Place 2	Heike Anders	Kata Women
	Sven Wergandt	Kata Seniors
Place 3	Sven Wergandt	Shiai Seniors Middleweight
	Uwe Anders	Shiai Seniors Heavyweight
Place 4	Heike Ahlborn	Shiai Women Middleweight

World League

Place 1	Olaf Lotze Heike Ahlborn Sven Wergandt	Kata Bunkai mpg 7,5MB
Place 5	Sven Wergandt	Kata Seniors

The complete results of the European Championship & World League are there...

from left: Hanshi Hisataka, Shihan Olaf Lotze,
Peter Lerk

The German Team:
from left: Heike Ahlborn, Sven Wergandt,
Heike Anders (Uwe stands on the other side,
Olaf looks for referees)

The Japanese Team;
from left: Yukio Sakamoto, Masamitsu Hisataka,
Sandra Leoni

European Champion Heike Ahlborn
Vice-European Champion Heike Anders
Kata Women

Place 1 of the World League: Olaf Lotze, Heike Ahlborn, Sven Wergandt
Kata Bunkai

Vice-European Champion Sven Wergandt
Kata Seniors

3rd Place Sven Wergandt
European Championship Shiai Seniors Middleweight

3rd Place Uwe Anders
European Championship Shiai Seniors Heavyweight

4th Place Heike Ahlborn
European Championship Shiai Women Middleweight

5th Place Sven Wergandt
World League Kata Seniors