In the first Philippine Global Taekwondo Online Speed Kicking Championships organized on October 23-25, Iranian athletes won 3 gold and 2 bronze medals.
Iran NOC; Tehran: Throughout this Covid-19 crisis, the
Philippine Taekwondo Association strived to keep the country’s taekwondo
community fit by hosting national tournaments and multiple regional events
online, keeping competitive athletes active these past months by adapting
quickly to the “new normal.”
This event is the first-ever in the world and hosted by the
Philippine Taekwondo Association where athletes had to perform the most number
of kicks in a minute. The participants were
scored by an online set of judges based on technical (number of kicks) and
overall performance (quality of techniques).
In this online event 6 Iranian female and male athletes participated
in Junior category: Saba Beigi (-44 Kg), Sogand Ji Afzam (-63Kg) and Mehdi
Moosaee (-45 Kg) achieved gold medals and Yashar Eskandari (-54Kg) achieved
bronze medal. In Senior category Mobina Sharifi
Maher (-53 Kg) achieved bronze medal.
About 1,000 participants from all over the world came together
from 23 countries: Japan, Korea, Guam, Ethiopia, Mexico, Iran, Botswana, and
USA to name a few.