Piacenza Karate at the top of Fijlkam, the Italian Judo Wrestling Karate Martial Arts Federation: the Piacenza association has in fact ranked 26th in the last four years out of 1,400 companies in the karate sector. The 43rd elective national assembly of the Federation is scheduled for Saturday 21 December at the Federal Olympic Center “Palapellicone” in Ostia for the appointment of the new federal President, the Presidents of each sector (Karate, Judo and Wrestling) and their respective boards of directors: entering in the top 30 clubs, Karate Piacenza will have 25 votes instead of a single vote.
For the Piacenza club, the President Gian Luigi Boselli, technical director of Karate Piacenza Farnesiana, and the instructor Pier Paolo Cagnoni, as technical representatives, will go to Rome for the votes, together with the technician Giorgio Livelli as the athletes’ representative. The candidates for the federal presidency are the former Olympian Ezio Gamba (former technical director of the Russian national judo team) and Gianni Morsiani (current president of the Fijlkam wrestling sector). Fijlkam – which has a total of around 3,300 clubs – has always scored numerous medals at the Olympics, including the latest edition in Paris 2024; at Tokyo 2020, when karate was also present as a discipline, he had won five medals out of the 40 achieved by Italy in all Olympic sports.