The idyllic coastline of Quintana Roo in Mexico welcomes hundreds of young karatekas from around the world in the third stop of the season of the Karate 1-Youth League. No less than 500 youngsters from 32 countries are registered to participate in the 2018 Karate 1-Youth League Cancun. 

The idyllic coastline of Quintana Roo in Mexico welcomes hundreds of young karatekas from around the world in the third stop of the season of the Karate 1-Youth League. No less than 500 youngsters from 32 countries are registered to participate in the 2018 Karate 1-Youth League Cancun. 

The third tournament of the year of the series of events which were conceived to highlight the impact of Karate in young ages is scheduled from October 26 to 28. The 2018 Karate 1-Youth League Cancun will be another opportunity to see the future stars of the sport in action. 

The 508 young karatekas from all over the world set to participate in Cancun are divided into 31 categories and will fight for the medals and for the chance to succeed in karate?s first-class series of events for competitors aged 12 to 17. The tournament to be held in Poliforum Benito Juárez sports hall starts on Saturday, with the first Kata and Kumite categories at stake. The medals will be awarded at the end of the two competition days.

The tournament in Cancun is set to continue the success of the two previous events of this inaugural season of the 2018 Karate 1-Youth League. The opening event took place in Sofia (Bulgaria) and finished with Ukrainian karatekas on top of the medal table and with representatives of no less than 21 countries claiming the gold medals at stake. 

The Karate 1-Youth League travelled then to Umag (Croatia) in a record-breaking tournament that ended with young karatekas from Russia topping the medal table. By countries, young Russian karatekas are showing power leading the gold medal count with a tally of 10 golds, followed by youngsters from Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, all of them with four gold medals. 

Youngsters from 28 countries have taken the flag of their nations to the top of the podium in the two previous events. The 2018 Karate 1-Youth League will come to an end in December in Venice (Italy).