Phnom Penh: The Asian Kickboxing Championships 2024 will be held at the National Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh, Cambodia from October 6th to October 13th with a variety of kickboxing.
For the event in 2024, the Ring Styles are Full Contact, Low Kick and K1-Styles, while the Tatami Stayles are Points Fighting, Light Contact, Kick Light and Musical Forms. For Musical Forms is a type of performance competition.
According to the statute, there are 110 disciplines in total, which there are 102 fighting disciplines and 8 performance disciplines. The competition may not run in all 110 disciplines. All disciplines must have at least 3 registered athletes or more, just can organize competition, but if any discipline has less than 3 registered athletes, that discipline will be canceled and the registered athlete can compete in the higher weight category than the discipline has been registered.
According to Mr. Heng Sokhorn, President of the Cambodia Kickboxing Federation, stated that: Until now, there are 22 countries from Asia have been registered to participate, in that, there are more than 400 athletes. Weighing was completed last evening of Sunday, October 6, 2024. Most Cambodian athletes compete in the K-1 category.
Kickboxing has 110 disciplines such as:
-Full Contact category has 19 disciplines (men 12 disciplines and women 7 disciplines)
-Low Kick category has 19 disciplines (men 12 disciplines and women 7 disciplines)
-K1 Style category has 19 disciplines (men 12 disciplines and women 7 disciplines)
-Point Fighting category has 15 disciplines (men 9 disciplines and women 6 disciplines)
-Light Contact category has 15 disciplines (men 9 disciplines and women 6 disciplines)
-Kick Light category has 15 disciplines (men 9 disciplines and women 6 disciplines)
-Creative Forms performing category has 4 disciplines (men 2 disciplines and women 2 disciplines)
-Musical Forms performing category has 4 disciplines (men 2 disciplines and women 2 disciplines).