According to IRNA, the 13th World Junior Taekwondo Championship will be hosted by Bulgaria in the “Armets” hall of Sofia city from August 11 to 16.
Based on this, our country’s boys and girls team left Tehran for Istanbul via Imam Khomeini International Airport today (Saturday) and will go to Sofia from there.
Abolfazl Zandi, Amir Abbas Rahnama, Reza Kalhar and Abolfazl Abbasi in the boys’ group, Sogand Shiri, Parnia Salmani, Mobina Nematzadeh, Fereshte Fathi, Poone Jafar Salehi, Sagar Moradi, Elham Haghighi and Nyusha Shadlou in the girls’ group are present in this event.
The youth team in the girls group is led by Fatemeh Safarpour, and Nilufar Safarian and Akhtar Kiani accompany her as coaches. In the boys section, Mohammadreza Zovar is the head coach and Behzad Khodadad and Masoud Kazempour are his colleagues.
According to the schedule of Monday, August 10th, the meeting of the team leaders and the drawing ceremony of the competitions will be held at the “Millennium” hotel from 14:00 to 17:00, and the competitions will officially start on Tuesday in the weights of minus 44 and minus 42 kg in the girls’ group and minus 45 kg in the boys’ group. .
On Wednesday, the weight fights of minus 46 and minus 49 kg in the girls group and minus 48 and 51 kg in the boys group will continue, and on Thursday the weight fights of minus 52 kg in the girls group and minus 55 and minus 59 kg in the boys group will be held.
On Friday, taekwondo athletes weighing minus 55 kg in the girls’ group and minus 63 and minus 68 kg in the boys’ group must compete with their opponents. On Saturday, weight competitions of minus 59 and minus 63 in the girls’ group and minus 73 and minus 78 kilograms in the boys’ group will be held. On Sunday and on the last day of this event, weight competitions of minus 68 and plus 68 kg for girls and plus 78 kg for boys will be followed.