Taekwondo WT World Grand Prix 2018

[phelps 7,664]

easy 15-9 win for Lauren Williams against her Croatian opponent...just another day at the office for her...

 

Women's -67kg

Gold: Lauren Williams

Silver: Matea Jelic

Bronze: Victoria Tamez & Nur Tatar Askari

Edited October 20, 2018 by phelps

[phelps 7,664]

and finally, Vlad Larin edges out In by a close score of 7-6 in the last of today's finals...

 

Men's +80kg

Gold: Vladislav Larin

Silver: In Kyo-Don

Bronze: Sun Hongyi & Sajjad Mardani

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I hope Hosseini is fine. I know he had a history of overreacting and sometimes acting about injuries but this one looked a bit serious. I mean he was down by just 4 with still enough time left. he wouldn't withdraw unless that was serious. still no report about it in Iran Taekwondo federation website and they are usually very fast with updates , and Lee Dae-hoon remains undefeated for one more tournament against Iranians. I lost count how many times he beat our athletes

 

not a bad day. silver and bronze. for Mardani I don't expect anything. even bronze is good for him. the problem with Grand Prix is you can't send whoever you want. only top 32 in ranking can participate. and our #1 athletes at 68 and +80 are not in top 32 at the moment ! and we are losing opportunities for qualifying more than 2 athletes for Tokyo.

[dareza 911]

Asian day in Manchester.

[dareza 911]

Just now, dareza said:

Asian day in Manchester.

 

4 in 49, 2 in 58 (+2 guys for Spain) and 2 in +67 (+Great Britain and Mexico)

[heywoodu 14,955]

Today's three weight classes are now all up to the semi's, right? Any way to see the results? Sadly World Taekwondo's website is not updating them until the end of the day.  

Edited October 20, 2018 by heywoodu

[thepharoah 2,405]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Today's three weight classes are now all up to the semi's, right? Any way to see the results? Sadly World Taekwondo's website is not updating them until the end of the day.  

 

here's results , but without scores 

[heywoodu 14,955]

6 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

 

here's results , but without scores 

That's a strange way to provide info  But thanks  

[phelps 7,664]

Women's -49kg, Semifinals
Panipak Wongpattanakit b. Hung Yu-Ting  27-10
Sim Jae-Young b. Miyu Yamada  15-13

Men's -58kg, Semifinals
Kim Tae-Hun b. Adrian Vicente Yunta  14-8
Armin Hadipour b. Jesùs Tortosa Cabrera  17-15

Women's +67kg, Semifinals
Bianca Walkden b. Maria Espinoza  22-5
Zheng Shuyin b. Gao Pan  7-2

Edited October 20, 2018 by phelps

[phelps 7,664]

still 1 semifinal match to go, but we already know that if it was not for Walkden, today's a true Asian party in Manchester with 5 out of 6 finalists coming from that Continent...

 

for Italy, our young talent Dell'Aquila surprisingly won his 2nd round bout against the no.2 seed Mikhail Artamonov (and with good margin, about 10 points if I remember correctly), but then he had to surrender to the Iranian Hadipour (and once again with some margin, well over 10 points)...

hopefully with all the points collected in the last couple of tournaments, he's going to improve his seed by next GP event and have a slightly less prohibitive draw...