According to IRNA; On Friday, in the continuation of the World Junior Taekwondo Championship hosted by Sofia, Bulgaria, Farishte Fathi in the girls’ division and Mateen Rezaei in the boys’ division faced their opponents.
Metin Rezaei defeated “Jules” from France, “Nikolovski” from Australia and “Barkai Err” from Turkey in the men’s weight class of -63 kg, where there were 49 taekwondo athletes and reached the semi-finals.
In this stage, he defeated “Rafael Papa” from Greece and won the gold medal in the final against Nazarov from Uzbekistan at the end of a sensitive and spectacular fight.
Also, Ferishte Fathi in the women’s -55 kg weight lost in the first round against Nika Karabatic from Croatia 2 to 1 with the results (16 to 14 winner of Fathi, 12 to 12 winner of Croatian representative and 13 to 1 winner of Croatian representative). and withdrew from the competition.
By the end of the fourth day of this tournament, Iranian youth taekwondo athletes have won 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal.
Sogand Shiri, Mobina Nematzadeh, Abolfazl Zandi and Metin Rezaei won 4 gold medals and Parnia Salmani won a silver medal for our country’s team.
The 13th World Junior Taekwondo Championship will be held until Sunday 16th of August.