Some athletes arrived on the prior Thursday to take in the beauty and sights of Argos, the oldest continuously inhabited city of Europe. Saturday morning two hundred and fifty competitors from England, Holland and Greece filled the floor of the stadium to compete for a place on the winner’s stand.

The first day’s program included group and individual forms, musical forms, self defense, breaking, team fighting and open division fighting. As expected, the three lovely young ladies of the shaolin kung fu in Argos, Greece took first place in the group forms division with their wushu form and unexpectedly, second place went to a team also from the same school. Their hard work paid off.

The weapons division was very interesting due to the wide variation of weapons and forms. Myronas Tornesakis of Athens took first place with his sword form and took the first money award of the day. He received 300 euros along with a trophy.

Myronas Tornesakis also took first place in the men and women’s soft style individual forms and Bill Veziryannis of Athens took first in hard style forms.

Creative musical forms had many more entries this year and were a delight to watch. After some tough decision making on the part of the judges, Anna Kokkinaki deservingly took first place and was awarded a trophy and 300 euros.

Next up was the tough breaking division and only well seasoned athletes dared to enter this event. The tournament provide, the cement slabs which contained a great amount of cement, making them difficult to break. Most competitors could not achieve their normal record and that was true for the winner, Dash Leshi of Argos, who took first place for breaking only six slabs, well below his record of eight. Dash received 300 euros and a trophy.

The first day was now drawing to a close but there still remined the open semi-contact and team fighting divisions. Penny Galani of Athens received 200 euros and trophy for first in the women's open semi-contact and Kostas Taboureas also from Athens took first in men’s semi-contact earning himself 450 euros and a trophy.

Nick Memmos school of Athens received 450 euros for the men’s team fighting ending the first days competition.

Day two was devoted to fighting and the stadium quickly filled to capacity. Proud parents cheered as their children fearlessly fought in the pee wee division. The kids fought one fight and the winner of each fight took the gold medal and the looser the silver medal and all left smiling.

At 11am there was a short intermission to welcome the local government officials and sponsors. Some vips gave speeches congratulating George Andronikidis for his fine work with the youth of Argos and for his effort to promote the city through athletic events. It was also time to welcome two very special guests. George Gouliovas (former Euro/Asian champion wrestler) and George Tromaras (former European champion wrestler). They were both presented with appreciation plaques for their contribution to athletics. A special award was also presented to Angelo Dritsas of MAX TV for his support and coverage of the championship.

Then it was back to fighting and the nine and ten year olds were up and the day proceeded working up to the fifteen and sixteen year old category.

The winners of the women’s blackbelt fighting were, light weight Venetia Ziogou of Athens and heavyweight, Evyenia Boulmeti also of Athens.

In the men’s blackbelt fighting, Kostas Taboureas of Athens took first in the light division and Andreas Agelopoulos also of Athens took first in the heavyweight division.

Evyenia Boulmeti, (instructor, P. Samiotis of Athens) was the women’s grandchampion. She proudly took the winners stand to receive her 300 euros and a huge trophy.

Andreas Agelopoulos (instructor, Nick Memmos of Athens) was the tournament grandchampion and went home 650 euros richer along with a seven foot trophy.

Special congratulations to Bill Veziryannis who competed in five different events accumulating the most points of the day. He was rewarded with 500 euros and the pentathlon trophy.