Two young Iranian karate representatives among the bronze contenders

In the continuation of the World Karate Championship, Dina Karimi and Hamidreza Satshani failed to reach the final by losing in the semi-final stage, and tomorrow they will go to the field to win the bronze medal.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan and quoted from the public relations of the Karate Federation, in the continuation of the competitions on Friday, October 24, the representatives of our country in the kata and committee of boys and girls went up against their competitors, who, as far as Iran is concerned, are trying to win the bronze medal by reaching the ranking meeting.

In the individual kata of juniors, Dina Safari passed Laura Klumpova from Serbia in the first round with a score of 3:2, but in the second round she lost to Anastasia Chapidze from Georgia with a score of 4:1. With the elimination of the representative of Georgia in the next stage, Safari also withdrew from the competition.

In the 47-kg category, Nirvana Razzaghi defeated Pana Petar from Hungary in the first round with a score of 2:0, and in the second round she won against Buna Sharifi from Macedonia with a score of 8:0. In the third round, she tied 3-3 against Aryna Nebkunova from Latvia and lost by the judges' vote. With the defeat of the Latvian representative in the next fight, Razzaghi stopped competing.

In the weight of -53 kg for juniors, Baran Shadfar also passed the barrier of Miranda Banda from Mexico in the first round with a score of 6:5, but lost to Signe Larson from Sweden in the second round with a score of 6:0. With the elimination of the Swedish representative in the next stage, Shadfar also withdrew from the competition.

In the weight of -61 kg, the girl Dina Karimi won by the judges' vote after a 2-2 draw with Alexa Sirbo from Moldova. In the second round, she defeated Marjeba Ana from Macedonia with a score of 7-0, and in the third round, she won by the judges' vote after a 1-1 draw with Albena Todorova from Bulgaria.

In the fourth round, Karimi passed Selda Min from Germany with a score of 1:0 and reached the semi-finals, but at this stage, he lost to Su Vildirim from Turkey with a score of 7:2, so he failed to advance to the finals. He will go to the field tomorrow to win the bronze medal.

Abolfazl Arab Yagoubi lost to Ivan Matsenko from Ukraine in the first round with the result of 4:3 in the weight of -63 kg for the youth, and with the elimination of the representative of Ukraine in the next stage, he failed to continue the competition.

In the weight of 70 kg for juniors, Hamidreza Satshani defeated Christian Poiu from Romania in the first round with a score of 3:0. In the second round, he won against Michael McGlynn from Ireland with a score of 6-0, and in the third round, he overcame Diego Nasr from Italy with a score of 3-0.

In the semi-final stage, Satshani lost to Atakhono Shohjahoon from Uzbekistan with a score of 6:4, and failed to advance to the finals.

Fatemeh Jafarnjad, Ghazal Fathi and Satish Qaneifred were the other representatives of our country who made it to the ranking meeting in the past days. Juvenile, Youth and Omid ranking competition will be held on Saturday and Sunday.