THERAN – Iran will send twenty taekwondo athletes to the South Korean Open Tournament in Shiapchang.
The South Korean Open Taekwondo Tournament (Chuncheon) will begin with the participation of 684 taekwondo athletes from different countries around the world; the competitions held at the G2 level and will bring 20 points in the Olympic ranking for the medalists.
The tournament will be held for two days in Chuncheon, and a total of 380 taekwondo taekwond athletes in the men’s category and 304 taekwondo taekwondo athletes in the women’s category will compete. The Iranian team is present in this event with 20 national players to gain experience and increase its points in the Olympic ranking.
In the men’s category, Yasin Valizadeh (-54 kg), Abolfazl Zandi (-58 kg), Mehdi Hajimosaei (-63 kg), Matin Rezaei (-68 kg), Amirsina Bakhtiari (-74 kg), Amirreza Sadeghian and Mehran Barkhordari (-80 kg), Muhammad Hussein Yazdani (-87 kg), and Ali Najafi and Arian Salimi (+87 kg) make up our country’s team.
In the women’s category, Saina Karimi (-46 kg), Rozhan Goodarzi (-53 kg), Hasti Muhammadi and Nahid Kiani (-57 kg), Yalda Valinejad (-62 kg), Fereshteh Fathi and Saghar Moradi (-67 kg), Baran Nemati (-73 kg), and Fatemeh Ahmadi and Hana Zarrinkamar (+73 kg) are the representatives of Iran in these competitions.