Congrats to Kilian Maidhof for winning the European Championships 2024 Open Tournament!!! Kilian dominated the competition by winning all seven of his seeding matches, then his three knockout matches, to go completely unbeaten for the whole championship tournament. Only Jochen Pfeiffer has done this previously (in 2016 and 2017), and he only had to win four seeding matches instead of seven to go unbeaten, so Kilian has set a new benchmark in consistency in a single tournament.
This is also Kilian’s first ever Major 750 Tournament victory. The closest he has come before was a runner-up spot at the Berlin 2023 Fight Night. This time he beat Markus Utke 5-4 in a dramatic final match.
Jasper Moens, who was aiming to complete the first ever “calendar year grand slam” of all four Major tournaments (after winning the BJC, NJF and EJC Fight Nights) lost to Markus 2-5 in their semi-final.
Brook Roberts had his best-ever result at the European Championships by beating Jasper twice in the tournament, once in the seeding rounds and again 5-3 in the third place match. Revenge is sweet for Brook as he lost to Jasper in the final of the BJC 2024 Fight Night.
Congrats to Wiebke Schnapper for winning the European Championships 2024 Women’s Tournament!!! She beat Lena Dung 5-2 in the final to earn her first ever Fight Night Combat victory, and climbed to 2nd place in the 2024 Women’s Rankings.
Lena Dung earned her first ever Fight Night final match appearance the hard way, by beating Isabell Stroben, who didn’t lose a single seeding match, 5-3 in their semi-final. Isabell Stroben beat Merel Coppens 5-0 in the third place match.
Thanks to everyone involved in the tournament!
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