According to IRNA’s report on Tuesday, following the World Jiu-Jitsu Championships in Abu Dhabi, UAE, in the Brazilian style under 21 years of age category, Radman Gholami, the representative of our country, won the bronze medal in the extra weight of 94 kg, and two representatives of our country withdrew from the competition.
In today’s competition (Tuesday), Gholami lost to the representative of Kazakhstan after taking a break in the first round, and then won the bronze medal by winning against the representative of Kyrgyzstan. In this style, the representative of the UAE won the gold medal and the representative of Kazakhstan won the silver. The Colombian athlete also won a joint bronze medal with Gholami.
Also, Ashkan Moradi, another representative of Iran’s weight plus 94 kg, withdrew from the tournament with 2 defeats against the representatives of Kazakhstan and Colombia, and Reza Ferdous also ended his career in the weight minus 94 kg with a defeat against athletes from the UAE and Kazakhstan.
In the adult competition, Ali Nazimi Harandi defeated the representative of Dominican Republic in the first round at minus 56 kg and then won against an athlete from Colombia, but in the third fight he was defeated by an opponent from Kazakhstan. He faced an opponent from Kazakhstan to win the third place in the tournament and after losing in this match, he placed in the fifth place.
Hamid Omraei won the first fight against a Moroccan opponent in minus 77 kg weight, but then he withdrew from the tournament after defeating the representatives of France and Denmark. In the same weight, the other representative of our country, after taking a break in the first round, lost against an opponent from Morocco in the second round and withdrew from the tournament after losing against an opponent from the Netherlands.
In the minus 94 kg weight, Sina Asgharzad Fayaz defeated the representative of Portugal in the first round, but was eliminated from the competition after losing against the representatives of Denmark and Angola.
Reza Shafiei, the representative of our country’s plus 94 kg weight, after winning against the representative of Thailand, was defeated by an opponent from Angola. In the course of the competition, due to a rib injury, he was removed from the competition table by the order of the competition doctor.
Mehran Sattar defeated his Colombian opponent in the first fight at a weight of minus 62 kg, but in the second fight he was defeated against the French representative. Sattar defeated opponents from Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Sweden in the table of chances, but after losing in the ranking match against the representative of the Netherlands, he placed fifth.
In minus 69 kg weight, Amir Mohammad Abedini first defeated representatives from Italy and Greece, but in the third round he lost to an opponent from France. In the table, he took another chance against an opponent from Mexico, but after accepting the defeat against the representative of Ukraine, he stood in seventh place in the world. Farhan Mousavi, another representative of our country in this weight, withdrew from the competition after accepting the defeat against the representatives of France and Greece.
Earlier and in the past days, Mohammad Mehdi Rostamian had won a silver medal in the under-21 age category of style fight.
Also, today and in the following competitions, Ali Akbarpour will compete with his opponents in the master category.
The World Jiu-Jitsu Championship in all age categories started on Saturday, November 6 with the participation of 1,700 athletes from 75 countries in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and will end tonight.