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Athletes from the United Kingdom apply for the KBN World Ranking online; KBN United Kingdom, based in London, checks their documen...
Athletes from Russia apply online for the KBN World Ranking; KBN Russia in Moscow verifies identity and results, and KBN World HQ...
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Divisions
KBN ranks women in separate tables for every discipline, category and weight class, using exactly the same point formula, evidence...
A KBN division is one combination of discipline, category, gender and weight class, and each division has its own ranking. Points...
Division in focus
Aleksei Karimov leads with 635 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
Li Shang leads with 562.5 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
Fatima Diallo leads with 535 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
Rustam Nazarov leads with 357.5 points. Who is chasing, where the points came from and what would change the order.
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