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.
Following today’s fights on Tuesday, the Iranian men’s and women’s team committee competed against their opponents, who reached the finals, and the women’s team must compete for a bronze medal by participating in the classification fight.
The Iranian men’s team committee, which had won the gold medal in the last three rounds of the competition, entered the tatami with the combination of Zabihollah Pourshib, Sajjad Ganjzadeh, Saman Heidari, Mehdi Khodabakhshi, Saleh Abazari, Keyvan Baban and Mehdi Ashouri.
Shahram Heravi’s students defeated Jordan 3-0 in the first fight. Khodabakhshi won 9-4, Baban 3-2 and Ganjzadeh 3-0 against their opponents.
Our national team also won 3-0 against Chinese Taipei with authority and won a permit to participate in the final. Mehdi Khodabakhshi won 4-0, Ashuri won 5-0 and Abazari won 8-0 against their rivals.
The team led by Heravi will face Kazakhstan tomorrow, Wednesday, to win the gold medal.
The Iranian women’s team committee consisting of Rozita Alipour, Taravat Khaksar, Mobina Heidari, Masoumeh Mohsenian and Fatemeh Saadati first won 2-0 against Malaysia. Mohsenian defeated their rivals 7-3 and Saadati 7-2.
Our team then lost to Vietnam 2-0. Mobina Heydari lost 1-0 and Rozita Alipour lost 4-1. With Vietnam reaching the final, our women’s team also competed in the qualifiers to compete for the bronze medal against Kazakhstan.
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