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WKF HEAD OFFICE work very hard in cooperation with our IRC- “International rules committee” to train our international officials and referees, to answer protests and requests for the competition rules and to develop our various WKF rules.
Our last World referee seminar´s 2023 in Skofije Slovenia, 2024 in Alicante Spain and 2025 in Chisinau, Moldova, appointed several new TOP female WKF referees with international licenses.
The last international referee seminar in 2025 in Minsk, Belarus, has brought three more highly qualified “Women in Black” to our team, and thus further strengthens our team.
Today we again have
19 female officials worldwide
only with an international WKF referee license.
As the world know – our next World referee seminar will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, Saturday and Sunday October 18th just before the WKF World Championships 2026
The next but one World referee seminar in Austriawill be held on September 12th2027, the weekend just before the following
European Championships 13. – 18.09.2027
Without valid WKF license you are not an official , referee, and supervisor in our World Kickboxing Federation!
Today WKF has more than 150 international licensed referees on 6 continents.
Of these, unfortunately, today we only have just
19 (!)
nineteen
international
licensed
female
officials
Like all knowledge, World wide more and more strong female champions and athletes are fighting, on tatami and Ring!
Our WKF executive board therefore emphatically requests all our
to send more female referees to Cartagen in Colombia to the next World referee seminar on October 18th 2026, in our main Hotel Almirante.
To all our country presidents World wide:
invitation World referee seminar in Cartagena
It’s in your hands and we just need
more female
WKF licensed officials