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Valdet Enver Gashi (born in Pristina, Kosovo, former Yugoslavia on 10 April 1986 — 4 July, 2015) was a German kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter of Albanian origin and European and two-times world champion in the super lightweight division. He died in unclear circumstances after joining Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Syria. ==Sporting career== Gashi arrived in Germany as a six-year-old Albanian refugee. He grew up in Neumarkt district of Bavaria where he was attracted to kickboxing and Muay Thai boxing also practicing break dancing passionately, before turning exclusively into sports. He found most success as a Muay Thai kickboxer and traveled to Thailand to train and fight in sports events. He regularly trained at the Elite Fight Club in Bangkok as a respected "foreign fighter" in this Thai sports art form〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Martial Arts Champions Of Islamic State )〕 becoming a role model and media star. EliteBoxing TV put a 45-minute reality show / documentary release featuring Valdet Gashi. He was promoted and sponsored in Thailand by Bjoern Schaufler, founder of "Thai 4 More" sports promotion company. He reportedly fought in more than 106 events in Thailand in 4 1/2 years. He also fought competitively in other countries like Malaysia, South Korea, China, Iran.〔(Shabab Dawa website: Interview with Valdet Gashi ) 〕 Gashi also met his future wife, a former top model in Thailand, marrying her after she converted to Islam. They had two daughters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=German Muay Thai Fighter Valdet Gashi Has Joined ISIS in Syria )〕 The family resided in Singen, Germany. Gashi turned professional in 2009 losing his debut pro boxing fight to Laszlo Robert Balogh with a KO. But he went on to win subsequent fights against Chainoi Suksumrit in 2009, Krisztian Zambo and Ibragim Zeliev in 2010 and Victor Sanicki in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BoxRec - Valdet Gashi )〕 He won the European title and later became two times world title holder in kickboxing. He also opened a Muslim-oriented Muay Thai training camp in Winterthur, Switzerland, under the name MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) Sunna with stricter rules applied. But the training programme was marred with media scrutiny when three young men aged 16 to 20 attending the camp, and a sister of the one of the trainees all decided to join ISIS ranks. Media also reported the ensuing death near Kobani, Syria of the 20-year-old Hajan, also known as Ibn Muhamad al-Kurdi, one of the camp's students who had fled to Syria.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World Muay Thai boxing champion from Germany joins ISIS in Syria )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valdet Gashi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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