TEHRAN – Iran’s kata athlete has advanced to the final match of the Moscow Grand Prix.
The second day of the Moscow Grand Prix competition kicked off on Saturday and in the men’s individual kata competition, Ali Zand reached the final.
In the fifth group of the men’s individual kata competitions, Iranian fighter defeated Saifullah from Pakistan with a score of 4:1 and then won against Artem Starilov from Russia with a score of 3:2. In the third fight, he defeated Siari Bandlatao from Belarus with a score of 5-0 and went to the quarter finals as the leader of the group.
Iran’s Kata representative passed Al-Karim Rami from the UAE with a score of 4-1, and in the semi-final stage, he defeated Ziggy Zarasta from Indonesia with a score of 5-0 and became the finalist.
Mobin Jabari, another representative of Iran’s kata, in the third group first lost to Ivan Martin of Montenegro from Spain with a score of 5-0, but in the second fight he defeated Ershad Ali from Pakistan with the same result. In the third competition, he lost 3-2 against Esfandiar Sortidinov from Russia, so that he could not continue the competition by placing in the third place of the group.
Zand will face Ivan Martin Montenegro from Spain in the final match on Sunday.