Gregorio Di Leo
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Gregorio Di Leo is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is a professional Italian Semi-contact kickboxer and member of the Italian National Team.
Biography
Di Leo has been in the W.A.K.O (World Association of Kick Boxing Organizations) of Kickboxing, -69 kg category, Semi-contact discipline:- four times World Champion
- ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 2003 - SzegedSzeged' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....
, 2005 - CoimbraCoimbraCoimbra is a city in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, it is better-known for its university, the University of Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the...
, 2007 - Lignano, 2009
- Paris
- two times European Champion
- MariborMariborMaribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....
, 2004 - LisbonLisbonLisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, 2005
- Maribor
Gregorio Di Leo has been the one of European athlete capable of winning a team competition in the United States
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, together with Roberto Bellotti (Amerikick International, Atlantic City, 2005) and he is the only European athlete that has been able to win a race in Central America
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(Guatemala City
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, Great Maya Challenge, 2006).
Di Leo is part of the Aikya Team, established by Giampaolo Calajò (already World Champion) and part of Team Bestfighters, founded by Italian national coach Gianfranco Rizzi. Gregorio Di Leo is a psychologist
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, graduated at the University
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of Padova in 2006. He is martial arts
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teacher, personal trainer
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and human resources consultant
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. During his career
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he has run several stages of Kickboxing Italy
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, Bulgaria
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, South Korea
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, United States
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and Norway
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.
In the 2010 Di Leo created the innovative training method named Intensive Point Fight Training. The goal of the Intensive point Fight Training program is promoting a global approach to human sport performance.
In the same year he took part to the first edition of the SportAccord World Combat Games held in Beijing and won in the -74kg category of Kickboxing Semi-contact.
Di Leo is vice-president of Aikya Team and alumnus of Giampaolo Calajò.
Titles
- 2011 Bristol Open Grand Champion
- 2011 Italian Open
-74 KG - 2010 Sport Accord/W.A.K.O. Kickboxing at the World Combat Games in Beijing, ChinaWorld Combat Games 2010The first World Combat Games were held in Beijing, China, from August 27 to September 4, 2010. 136 gold medals were vied for by 1,108 competitors from all five continents....
-74 kg (Semi-Contact) - 2009 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy -74 kg (Semi-Contact)
- 2008 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Varna, BulgariaW.A.K.O. European Championships 2008 (Varna)W.A.K.O. European Championships 2008 in Varna were the joint nineteenth European kickboxing championships held by the W.A.K.O. organization arranged by the Bulgarian kickboxing chief Boyan Kolev, with the second event to be held the next month in Guimarães, Portugal. It was the second W.A.K.O...
-74 kg (Semi-Contact) - 2007 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Coimbra, PortugalW.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 (Coimbra)W.A.K.O. World Championships 2007 in Coimbra were the joint 16th edition of the W.A.K.O. world championships and was the second event . The championships were for amateur male and female kickboxers and martial artists, covering the following categories; Full-Contact, Semi-Contact, Musical Forms...
-69 kg (Semi-Contact) - 2006 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Lisbon, PortugalW.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 (Lisbon)W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 were the joint eighteenth European kickboxing championships held by the W.A.K.O. organization and the second to be held in Portugal and the city of Lisbon...
-69 kg (Semi-Contact) - 2006 Amerikick International Winner in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA Italian Team (Semi-Contact)
- 2005 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Szeged, HungaryW.A.K.O. World Championships 2005 (Szeged)W.A.K.O. World Championships 2005 in Szeged were the joint fifteenth world championships held by the W.A.K.O. organization and the third ever to be held in Hungary - with the other event having been held a couple of months earlier in Agadir, Morocco...
-69 kg (Semi-Contact) - 2005 W.A.K.O. Golden Belt -69 kg (Semi-Contact)
- 2004 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Maribor, Slovenia -69 kg (Semi-Contact)
- 2004 W.A.K.O. Italian Open -69 kg (Semi-Contact)
- 2003 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Paris, FranceW.A.K.O. World Championships 2003 (Paris)W.A.K.O. World Championships 2003 in Paris were the joint fourteenth world championships held by the W.A.K.O. and the first ever to be held in France. The other world championships were to be held in November of the same year in Yalta, Ukraine...
-69 kg (Semi-Contact) - 2002 Irish Open in Dublin, Ireland -69 kg (Semi-Contact)
- x4 W.A.K.O. World Cup in Piacenza -69 kg (Semi-Contact)
- x3 W.A.K.O. World Cup in Piacenza Italian Team (Semi-Contact)
- x5 W.A.K.O Italian Champion -69 kg (Semi-Contact)
- W.A.K.O. European Professional Champion -69 kg (Semi-Contact)