According to IRNA, the 32nd Fajr Cup International Taekwondo Championships will be held from March 6 to 7, and the 4th World Federation Presidential Cup will be held from March 10 to 12 at the “Olympic” sports complex on Kish Island.
Our national men’s and women’s taekwondo team, which is preparing to attend the upcoming events, will participate in this event in order to be more prepared.
The Organization of National Teams has announced the names of the people sent to these two events as follows:
Men’s group
First weight (54-kg): Hossein Lotfi and Mehdi Haji Mosaei
Second weight (58 kg): Mohammad Sadegh Dehghani and Mohammad Hassan Palangfkan
Third weight (63 kg): Soroush Ahmadi and Toofan Ebrahimi
Fourth weight (-68 kg): Amirsina Bakhtiari and Mohammad Hassan Zahedi
Fifth weight (74 kg): Mirhashem Hosseini, Amir Mohammad Bakhshi and Sidamid Hosseini
Sixth weight (80 kg): Mohammad Hassan Yazdani and Ali Eshkorian
Seventh weight (-87 kg): Mehdi Jalali
Eighth weight (+87 kg): Sajjad Mardani
These people are led by Fariborz Askari as the head coach and Mohammad Bagheri Motamed as the coach; Mehrdad Yousefi is the bodybuilding coach of the team.
Women’s group
First weight (46 kg): Saeedeh Nasiri and Masoumeh Ranjbar
Second weight (49 kg): Mobina Nematzadeh and Ghazal Soltani
Third weight (53-kg): Nahid Kiani and Hadiseh Amare
Fourth weight (57 kg): Nastaran Valizadeh and Zahra Sheidaei
Fifth weight (62-kg): Kowsar Asaseh and Narges Mirnorollahi
Sixth weight (67 kg): Asal Saberi and Yasman Mohammadi
Seventh weight (73 kg): Melika Mir Hosseini and Fatemeh Shafipour
Eighth weight (+73 kg): Akram Khodabandeh and Zeinab Ismaili
These people are led by Mehro Kamrani as the head coach and Reyhaneh Fooladi and Razieh Aghajanpour as the coach.
This is a G2 competition and the first to third place winners will be awarded 20, 12 and 7.20 points, respectively, in order to increase their Olympic ranking.