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News ID: 38822
Publish Date : 26 April 2017 - 20:40

Iran Taekwondo Crowned at Kazakhstan Open



TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran came first at the Kazakhstan Open – World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) G1.
The Iranian team won six gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in the three-day competition.
Mahdi Eshaghi in -54kg, Mohammad Sadegh Dehghani in -58kg, Mahdi Yousefi  in -63kg, Seyed Ahmad Khosrowfar in -73kg, Alireza Darvishpour in -80kg and Hossein Ghorbanzadeh in +87kg claimed six gold medals for the Iranian team.
Jafar Khalilzadeh in -54kg, Aryan Mohammadi in -63kg, Mahdi Jalali in -68kg and Ahmad Mohammadi in -87kg won four silver medals and Farshad Ghias took a bronze medal in the -87kg weight category.
Host Kazakhstan finished in second place with one gold medal, four silvers and eight bronzes.
Uzbekistan came third winning two bronze medals.
The Kazakhstan Open – World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) G1 brought 472 taekwondo practitioners in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.