According to IRNA; The 2021 Asian Karate Championship in all age categories (teenagers, youth, hope and adults) in two categories of kata and committee has started on Saturday, hosted by Almaty, Kazakhstan, and our country’s representatives have gone against their opponents. These battles continue until the first of December.
Today, Monday, the adult kata (form performance) and committee (struggle) competitions of the Omid age group were held, with Atosa Golshadnejad, Mobina Heidari, Alireza Heidari and Mohsen Safarnejad winning gold. Aida Khoshbakhti won the silver medal and Mohammad Reza Savari, Hadi Kiani and Zahra Bonyani won 3 bronze medals. Abolfazl Shahrjerdi and Fatemeh Sadeghi, two cathars of the adult team, qualified for the match by placing second in their group.
The results of today’s representatives of Iran are as follows
Adult kata
Abolfazl Shahrjerdi and Fatemeh Sadeghi went to the ranking match and will try to win a bronze medal tomorrow.
Girls Hope Committee
In the 55-kg weight category, Zahra Banyani defeated Amangol Dwysnabal of Kazakhstan 7-1 in the first round, and lost 8-0 to Tom Huang of Vietnam in the second round to advance to the standings. In the classification fight against “Eliasia Ismail” from the UAE, he won 10 to 5 and won bronze.
In the 68-kg weight class, Mobina Heydari defeated opponents from Palestine and Kazakhstan and advanced to the finals. She won the final against Fatima Kaf from the UAE with a score of 2: 0 and won gold.
In the 61-kg weight class, Atosa Golshadnejad defeated Pemon Miso of the Philippines in the first game and then defeated Wood Chumi of Hong Kong to advance to the final. The worthy girl of Iranian karate in the final against “Asal Kaini” from Kazakhstan won four to three and won gold.
In the 68 + kg weight category, Aida Khoshbakhti won 8-0 against Samik Joyta of Indonesia and then lost 4-0 to Olga Maltsova of Kyrgyzstan for silver.
Boys Committee of Hope Category
In the 55-kg weight category, Mohammad Reza Savari qualified for the match with a victory and a defeat, and then won against “Stafong Chanfteh” from Thailand with a score of eight to zero and won a bronze medal.
In the 60-kg weight category, Morteza Karimi won after a 3-3 draw against “Yousef Al-Sarraf” from Kuwait in Sanshou (first point rule). In the second game, Karimi managed to defeat Malaysia’s Pillay Sivansan 4-2, but in the third game, he lost to Hong Kong’s Pan Cheng Ho 1-0. He lost to Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Klyev in the standings and left the tournament empty-handed.
In the 67-kg weight category, Hadi Kiani defeated Mahmoud Fallah of Palestine 2-0 in the first match. In the second match, Kiani lost 2-0 to Uzbekistan’s Mohammad Abdulaziz and advanced to the play-offs. At this stage, Kiani crossed the “Yang Chang” dam in Hong Kong with a score of 5: 2 and won bronze.
In the 75-kg weight category, Alireza Heydari defeated Asad Bek Photo of Uzbekistan 2-1 in the first match. Heydari also reached the final in the second round with a 6-0 defeat of “Cheng Tong Yu” from Chinese Taipei. He then defeated Mohammed Branawi of Saudi Arabia 5-0 to win the gold medal.
In the 84-kg weight category, Amir Eslami lost 2-1 to Kazakhstan’s Kamlabik in the first match, and then lost 3-2 to Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad Al-Maleki to avoid winning a medal with two consecutive defeats.
In the 84+ kg weight category, Mohsen Safarnejad first defeated Arusuran and then defeated Esfandiar Yerbek of Kazakhstan to win the gold medal.
With these descriptions, the number of medals of the Iranian convoy reached 13 gold, 5 silver and 8 bronze, so that our country team is at the top of the medal distribution table.
Kikaus Saeedi, Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee, Seyed Hassan Tabatabai, President of the Federation, and Mohsen Ashouri, Acting Vice President of the Karate Federation, monitored the struggles of the Iranian delegation in the competition hall.
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