Maryam Baharvandi “We had a good activity in the women’s section and more than three years ago we participated in international youth competitions and even one person was eliminated,” the Iranian judo champion, who has been working as the federation’s vice president for some time, told IRNA on Monday. The officials of the foreign teams did not praise our performance. After that, changes were made in the federation, and we left this field.
He added: “Now we have started working again and fortunately the president of the federation has a special view on the progress of women’s judo.” The Iranian women’s judo team will participate in the games of Islamic countries with a full lineup, and we will start the camps in April.
Baharvandi about why some women judokas turned to other disciplines such as Kurash? He explained: “As a person who has been an athlete and coach for many years, I know the problems well. We need to motivate the coach and the athlete to increase their activity, and when they see that we are monitoring them and the efforts of these people are not ignored, they will definitely not go to another field. Some athletes who had reached the age of championship and were thinking of winning an international medal went to other disciplines. In May 1401, the Women’s Judo Clubs Cup of the country will be held in Lorestan and you can be sure that it will be well received.
Regarding the low level of women judo coaches, the vice president of the women’s federation said: “One of our goals is to increase the level of knowledge of women judokas, and on the first day I started working as vice president,” Arash Mirasmaili “announced that we should work Women coaches increase. Recently, an international trainer (Maya) held a training class in Shiraz, which was welcomed by women trainers. We talked to this coach to work with us again. The goal is to increase the knowledge of the coaches and then go to the athletes.
Regarding the technical staff of the national women’s teams, Baharvandi said: “Sahar Chaghlovand” is the youth coach and “Maryam Barbat” is the youth and hope coach, and we also want to go on the tatami with a combination of youth and hope in the games of Islamic countries.
In response to the question that women’s judo has the capacity to hold appropriate leagues and competitions in this section? He explained: “We held the youth competitions after a 2-year break, which was very well received and had a good technical level.” We have a hard job and we will hold the Women’s Judo Clubs Cup in May. Rest assured, it will be a good competition and Iranian women judokas must compete enough to progress. Iranian men’s teams will soon have camps with Turkey and Tunisia, and the president of the federation announced that several women judokas will also be present at the camp and will train with Turkish and Tunisian women.