Karate fighter Fran Lozano from Elche continues to collect successes in his sports career.. This time, he won the bronze medal in the European Para-Karate Championship, where he went with his senseisi. Antonio Miguel Verdualso a karateka from Elche and Technical Director of Elche Antonio Miguel Verdú Karate Club.
Blind and a pioneer in his discipline, Lozano held a major competition and placed third in a category where the organizers mixed people who are completely blind and others with vision remnants. The only blind man in this championship was Fran Lozano, so his bronze really tastes like gold.
Technician from Elche
On the other hand, Antonio Miguel Verdú joins as coach of the Royal Karate Federation and Associated Disciplines This is the 6th time he has intervened as a technician accompanying and leading the National Para-Karate Team along with his colleagues Ainhoa Rodriguez (director of the National Para-Karate Department) and Santiago Sánchez (Para-Karate technician).
On this occasion the Spanish Para-Karate Team 7 athletes who won 7 medalsThey finished first in the European Para-Karate medal table for the 4th time in a row (they were already first in 2019 Europe and after the pandemic in 2021, 2022 and now in 2023).