Shirzadi: We promote Iranian figure skating

Isfahan- The head of the Artistic Skating Association of the country announced a coherent planning for the promotion of this sport.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan Saman Shirzadi, on the sidelines of figure skating competitions in the center of the country hosted by Isfahan, he pointed out the necessity of coherent planning for the development of this discipline and stated: Figure skating is one of the beautiful, original and popular disciplines of the skating family, which fortunately has considerable popularity and capacity in our country.

He added: "Unfortunately, one of the challenges of this field in the past years has been the lack of a coherent program and a specific competition and educational calendar; But with the new approach of the federation, we assure that Iran's figure skating will proceed with targeted planning and a specific calendar from now on.

The head of the figure skating association of the country praised the supportive and motivating view of the head of the federation in the field of increasing sports events and stated: Fortunately, in the last three months, we have seen the second figure skating event in the country; The first tournament was hosted by Central Province and now Isfahan Province is hosting the second event. This process shows the serious attention of the new management of the federation to activating the capacity of the provinces and creating vitality and motivation among the athletes of this field.

Shirzadi also announced plans to improve the technical level of figure skating and said: "Soon, refereeing and coaching courses will be held in this field with the aim of updating specialized knowledge and improving the quality of training and judging."

While appreciating the skating board of Isfahan province and the executive officials of the competitions, he appreciated the worthy hosting and the efforts made to hold the artistic skating competitions in the central region of the country.