On Saturday 9th March 2024, the traditional grappling tournament TATAMY 8 took place in the premises of the Faculty of Sports Studies of Masaryk University in Brno, one of the highlights of which was the women's GALA. However, there was also competition in the OPEN tournament and we bring you a summary of the medalists from the PRO category.

NOGI

MEN

-65 kg
In the lightest category, there were mainly two names, mainly two names that dominated. One of them was Austrian black belt Daniel Krennhuber, the other was Czech black belt Radek Mitrega. The two met each other in the final, which Krennhuber won 9:2 on points.
1. Daniel Krennhuber
2. Radek Mitrega
3. Ondrej Bortel

-70 kg
This category had a relatively clear winner, namely the twenty-seven-year-old purple belt Jakub Houra, who scored three of his five victories by submission. Daniel Čučvar also made his debut in the PRO category, finishing in second place.
1. Jakub Houra
2. Daniel Čucvara
3. Patrick Pehel

-77 kg
In -77 there was traditionally nothing to talk about. Petr Mynář claimed an incredible sixth consecutive victory in this weight category and since the TATAMY 3 tournament he has not found anyone to dethrone him. He ended all his matches before the limit. The German David Schütz finished in second place, and Tadeáš Wittassek from Opava came in third.
1. Petr Mynar
2. David Schutz
3. Tadeáš Wittassek

-83 kg
As always, one of the most charged categories, which was dominated by the SWAG duo Jan Stach and Marek Hromádka. Both had four wins in the group, of which they ended all before the limit and met in the final. The final fight offered a wonderful match, where Honza finally won the match on a negative point, which Marek received for a guard pull. In the fight for bronze, Patryk Bocianowski quickly finished off Michal Trávníček with a straight ankle lock.

1. Jan Stach
2. Marek Hromádka
3. Patryk Bocianowski

-91 kg
This category had a great cast. For example, Anton Orlov and participants in the Combat Jiu Jitsu Superfight Lukáš Pavelka and Richard Adámek fought in it. You could also find here both captains from TATAMY Teams Czech Republic vs. Austria, Antonio Stanice and Jan Stacha. Anton Orlov did the best here, who defeated both Stach and Stanice in the elimination fights and dominated this division.

1. Anton Orlov
2. Antonio Station
3. Jan Stach

-100 kg
The category had only two participants, where Mateusz Chamny won, who had a 2:1 head-to-head match with Jan Musil.

1. Mateusz Chamny
2. Jan Musil

+100 kg
There were four participants in the hardest category, where everyone wrestled with everyone. The division was dominated by the German Jonas Maxein, who ended two of the three matches won by submission.

1. Jonas Maxein
2. Aleksandar Radjen
3. Jan Radosta

WOMEN

-60 kg
Three participants, each of whom scored one win from two matches. In the end, Ema Sehnalová dominated the division for a better mutual match.

1. Ema Sehnalová
2. Fiona Mortell
3. Veronika Boková

-65 kg
The category in which all participants of the GALA tournament presented themselves. As expected, the winner and previous GALA Injana Goodman did the best here, finishing three of the five matches before the limit.

1. Injana Goodman
2. Julia Mikołajczak
3. Linda Stach

-70 kg
Here we could see only two participants, namely Karolína Ponerová and Petra Šindelářová, where in the end Karolína Ponerová won in a ratio of 2:1 for the winning matches.

1. Karolina Ponerova
2. Petra Šindelářová

GI

-65 kg
The lightest category in kimono was dominated by the bright purple belt Marek Raška, who claimed three victories. An interesting fact is that a year ago, at the TATAMY 4 tournament, he still wrestled as a blue belt.

1. Marek Raska
2. Leandro Luiz Da Silva
3. Ondrej Bortel

-77 kg
Here, the unequivocally Austrian wrestler and only 20-year-old Noah Werner ruled. He scored one finish before the limit and two points wins.

1. Noah Werner
2. Daniel Bílek
3. Marek Sandor

Masters (+35 kg)
1. Jan Heindl
2. Matej Seibert

-83 kg
This category had an interesting course, when the first three medalists all scored two wins. In the end, the category was dominated by a fresh purple belt from DSC Gym Česká Třebová, Mikhailo Pryimak, who was helped by a better match against black belt Lukáš Zelený.

1. Mikhail Pryimak
2. Lukáš Zeleny
3. Patryk Bocianowski

Masters (+35 kg)
1. Petr Dohnal
2. Peter Strocinski
3. Victor Pavlov

-91 kg
The most occupied category in kimono, where there were seven wrestlers. Slovak black belt Michal Kukumberg clearly dominated the group with four wins. In the finals, Kukumberg faced off against Pretorian Michal Novák, who beat him 3-7 on points.

1. Michal Novák
2. Michal Kukumberg
3. David Karnold

-100 kg
A relatively balanced division, which was eventually dominated by TATAMY regular participant and Opava black belt Pavel Roder, who was helped to victory by a better match with Olomouc's Vítězslav Látal.

1.Pavel Roder
2. Vítězslav Látal
3. Mateusz Chamny

+100 kg
Only two participants in the category, where the Slovak Peter Sladeček won, who defeated Miloš Vanický twice by submission.

1. Peter Sladeček
2. Miloš Vanický