The Asian Karate Championships in all age categories (teenagers, youth, hope and adults) were hosted by Almaty, Kazakhstan, while the Iranian convoy won the championship in all age categories. A title that shows the potential of Iranian karate.
However, one should not run away from the facts. Japan had no participants in the junior, youth and hope age categories and only appeared on the tatami in the adult category and performed brilliantly in this category.
Iran finished fourth in the adult category for men and women, and of course the women of the committee did not rank better than sixth; An unimaginable position in which Iranian karate is by no means. A team that considers itself the best on the Old Continent but performed poorly in the senior category, which is the most important part.
We know that Iran’s grassroots teams have won valuable medals and can secure the future of the sport, but it should not be forgotten that Japan had no athletes in the age group. With this in mind, is it possible to forget the very poor results of the youth team of the youth age group?
Just as it is impossible to ignore Iranian girls and admire their pride in the Islamic hijab, so it is impossible to ignore the very poor results of adult women.
The officials of the federation handed over the leadership of the adult women’s team to “Farkhnar Arbab” and “Laleh Samadi” became the coach of the team. “Massoud Rahnama”, an experienced karate coach of the country, also became the manager of the team, that is, the versatility of the team. But this combination was one of the worst results in the history of women.
One silver and three bronze medals and being ranked sixth in the committee section, after Japan, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, the UAE and the Philippines, were the share of Iranian karate women on the Almaty tatami. “Mobina Heydari” silver, who also competed in the Omid age category and won gold there. The three bronzes of Borjali, Alipour and Khaksar, some of which were won with just one win, were the achievements of a much-anticipated team.
This was the worst result for adult karate women since the 2011 Asian Championships (the women’s team won one silver and one bronze medal that year), a team that failed to win gold after seven seasons. But it is interesting that the head coach knows that the reason is only youthfulness; The team, most of whom had the experience of attending several international events.
In the team section, where the Iranian women’s team committee could not win a medal, the team that was the champion of Asia was the platform for distributing the medals from afar after many years.
The team was supposed to be sent to the world competitions, but practically lost to those who did not perform well in the world competitions. Now imagine what would be the results of our country’s women’s team if it was sent to the UAE World Championships?
In the weight category of minus 50, Sara Bahmanyar of the Iranian Karate Olympics lost 7: 5 to the representative of Kazakhstan and then 8-4 to the representative of Chinese Taipei. He lost to Ukraine 2-0 in the charging rap and failed to win a medal.
The Chinese Taipei representative, who won the bronze medal match 8-4 against Bahmanyar, lost 8-1 to Kazakhstan in the second round of the World Championship and was eliminated.
The UAE representative did not participate in world competitions in the weight category less than 61 kg. Vietnam, which won the Asian gold medal in the weight category of minus 55 kg, did not participate in the world championships.
Kayo Sumia from Japan, who defeated Mobina Heydari 9-2 in the weight category of minus 68 kg, lost to France in the second round of the World Championships.
Olympic bronze medalist Sofia Broltsova of Kazakhstan, who defeated Leila Borjali 10-4 at the Asian Championships and then defeated Masoumeh Mohsenian 8-4 in a team event, lost 5-5 in the final to the 21-year-old Japanese representative, who is the gold medalist of Asian hopes. He had 2019 in his record, lost and won silver.
Broltsova lost 7-5 to Spain at the World Championships, but won 11-7 to Serbia in the bronze medal race.
Another important point is the absence of prominent Asian karate figures such as Miho Mihara, gold medalist of 2 World Championships, Wen Tzu Yan, holder of Olympic bronze and 2 world bronze medalists from Chinese Taipei in weight minus 55, Zhao Yan, holder of Asian gold and Olympic silver in weight minus 61 , Gang Li, the Olympic bronze medalist in the weight category of minus 68 from China, and Ayumi Yokosa, the holder of 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals from Japan in +68 kg in this period of Asian competitions.
We hope that the officials of the federation are realistic and, as they are satisfied with the performance of the basic teams, they are a little worried about the adult teams; Especially the women’s team, which did not meet the expectations of the leader and the master and was not a tie-breaker.
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