Taekwondo WT World Championships 2023

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semifinal curse continues ...  to me Salimi was the better guy but who cares anymore.

 

I think this is the 5th World Championship semifinal defeat in a row  5 bronzes by 5 different athletes , all of them lost winnable matches

Edited May 31, 2023 by MHSN

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Today's Results

 

women's -49kg

 

Gold:  Merve Dincel

Silver:  Panipak Wongpattanakit

Bronze:  Adriana Cerezo Iglesias &  Bruna Duvancic

 

men's -80kg

 

Gold:  Simone Alessio

Silver:  Carl Alan Nickolas

Bronze:  Miguel Trejos Salas &  Seif Eissa

 

men's -87kg

 

Gold:  Kang Sang Hyun

Silver:  Ivan Sapina

Bronze:  Arian Salimi &  () Artsiom Plonis

[Braulio 139]

After having an historic Worlds last year (at home) Mexico's showing at this worlds is maybe one of the worst ever

 

Most of the big guns including two world champions couldn't even get pass Round 1! Only one mexican have reached the Round of 16

 

The only hope of a medal will be Carlos Sansores, current world champion 

 

What happened in such a short amount of time? bad planification? not peaking in the right time? maybe our medalist from last year worlds were still 'celebrating' their medals? lack of motivation? who knows

 

 

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4 hours ago, Braulio said:

After having an historic Worlds last year (at home) Mexico's showing at this worlds is maybe one of the worst ever

 

Most of the big guns including two world champions couldn't even get pass Round 1! Only one mexican have reached the Round of 16

 

The only hope of a medal will be Carlos Sansores, current world champion 

 

What happened in such a short amount of time? bad planification? not peaking in the right time? maybe our medalist from last year worlds were still 'celebrating' their medals? lack of motivation? who knows

 

 

The WCH last year had a lot of strange and surprising results, for whatever reason. This year seems to be more in line with previous years and let’s say predictions. For me really not surprising that Souza and in particular Soltero could not repeat their results. Sansores will do better, but I guess 1/4 finals is the end. 

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today's Semifinals (Final Block starts @ 4 p.m. CET)

 

women's +73kg Semifinals

 

 Bianca Cook vs  Svetlana Osipova

 Nafia Kus vs  () Kristina Adebaio

 

men's -63kg Semifinals

 

 Hakan Recber vs  Carlos Navarro

 Joan Jorquera Cala vs  Banlung Tubtimdang

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2 golds 

 

I am very happy for Nafia, who was a chronic bronze medalist. Great success, although her running out of mat many times were quite irritating.

 

I believe Hakan has superstar potential. I hope he soon stabilizes in the olympic weight.

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At last a medal for Mexico 

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Today's Results

 

women's +73kg

 

Gold:  Nafia Kus

Silver:  Svetlana Osipova

Bronze:  Bianca Cook &  () Kristina Adebaio

 

men's -63kg

 

Gold:  Hakan Recber

Silver:  Banlung Tubtimdang

Bronze:  Joan Jorquera Cala &  Carlos Navarro

[Braulio 139]

Finally, a medal for Mexico with Carlos Navarro, now a two time world bronze medalist and 5th place in Rio 2016

 

Carlos Sansores have had consistent results this season so a medal from him can be expected but given how things have gone I am not very confident

 

For Soltero and Souza, the result at this worlds (and season) will hurt a lot their hopes of getting an olympic quota via ranking BUT I'd rather think that if they were going to have a bad time after a great success, better this year and not the olympic one 

 

 

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today's Semifinals (Final Block starts @ 4 p.m. CET)

 

women's -46kg Semifinals

 

 Lena Stojkovic vs  Ruka Okamoto

 Kamonchanok Seeken vs  Wang Xiaolu

 

men's -54kg Semifinals

 

 Park Tae-Joon vs  Omonjon Otajonov

 Hugo Arillo Vazquez vs  Gorkem Polat