Belarusian Kopaeva won the gold of the World Sambo Championship in Uzbekistan

Belarusian athlete Anfisa Kopaeva became the winner of the World Sambo Championship in 2026 in the capital of Uzbekistan Tashkent. It's from sb.by.

At the planetary forum, our athlete won in the weight category up to 50 kilograms. On the way to the final Kopaeva passed the German Christine Volz, Byambasuren Ganbaatar from Mongolia and the French Sephora Korscher. In the match for gold, the Belarusian defeated the Russian Sophia Emelukova. Anfisa became a two-time world champion five years after the first victory. In total, her career has six World Cup awards (2-3-1).

In men, the second place in weight up to 58 kg was taken by our Vladislav Burd. During the tournament, the sambist defeated Uzbek Ilhom Parkhomov, Bulgarian Borislav Yanakov, Ukrainian Danil Dzobu and Kimal Obolbekov from Kyrgyzstan. In the battle for gold, the Belarusian lost to Vakhtang Chidrashvili from Georgia. Vladislav for the fifth time became the prize-winner of the planetary forum (0-2-3), Bourde is also the European champion of 2024.

Belarusian sambists will perform at the world championship in Tashkent