TEHRAN - The Iranian 
national karate team secured two additional bronze medals at the World Championships for youth and junior age categories.
On the final day of the 14th World Championships for youth and junior age categories—held in Poland—Ghazal Fathi and Fatemeh Jafarnejad won two bronze medals for Iran by emerging victorious in their respective bronze-medal bouts.
Fathi, competing in the women’s U-21  -50kg category, defeated Adela Salika from the host nation with a score of 9–0. She secured the world bronze medal with 54 seconds remaining in the match.
Prior to this, Fathi had defeated opponents from England, Spain, and Germany. In the semi-finals, she fought to a 1–1 draw against a representative from Sweden.
Meanwhile, Fatemeh Jafarnejad—competing in the women’s U-21 -55kg category, secured Iran’s third bronze medal of the event by defeating Veronika Hodam of Ukraine 2–0.
Earlier, Hamidreza Rezayati—another Iranian athlete — had also won a bronze medal in these competitions.