TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Iranian athletes have managed to win one gold, five silver, and 11 bronze medals in the final of the 2020 Asia Taekwondo Poomsae Championships.
The 2020 Asia Taekwondo Poomsae Championships were held online from November 12  to 14.
In this international competition, which was held in two standard individual and innovative sections, each country was able to nominate a maximum of two players in each age category.
According to the Asian Taekwondo Association, these competitions do not have a team ranking.
In the final section of these competitions that was broadcasted live, Iran’s Poomsae national team ended up with gold, 5 silver, and 11 bronze medals.
Among the Iranian athletes, Sakineh Houshangi Maher has managed to win a gold medal, Atosa Farahmand, Kobra Sakhaei Watan, Zahra Eftekhari, Hamid Nazari, and Hedayat Arianfar won silver medals, and Razieh Aghaei, Seyedeh Masoumeh Hosseini, Narjes Sharifi, Maryam Arabi, Mohammad Taghi Hatami, Musinia, Akbar Forouzan, Ali Akbar Mohammadi, Ghorban Delshad, Abbas Rezaei, and Ebrahim Khavari won bronze medals.

Iranian Female Fighter Ranks 3rd in Online World Taekwondo Asia

Iranian taekwondoka Narjes Sharifi ranked third in Poomsae field of Online 2020 World Taekwondo Asia, head of Jiroft Sports and Youth office said.
Mehdi Eram Bin said the event was held on November 12-14 by South Korea.
He added that 14 countries attended the online event.
Sharif stood in third place in the adult category, he noted.
South Korea, Iran 1, Iran 2 and the Philippines ranked first to fourth respectively.