Taekwondo WTE Extra European Championships 2019

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Taekwondo WTE Extra European Championships 2019

 

Bari (ITA) - 1 November 2019 - 3 November 2019

 



 

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Links to Streaming sessions for all the 3 competition days, here:

 

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every time I open the PDF drawsheet for a Taekwondo competition, I see another Iranian competing for somewhere else this time Ehsan Naghibzadeh for the refugee team !!! he even represented Iran in 2013 World Champs (and didn't medal)

 

and two other guys I was already aware of, Ali Noghandoost and Amir Hosseini. and if we count Dina Pouryounes. there are 4 Iranians competing for "refugee team" only in the first day of the competition I wonder how many others are waiting for the next 2 days.

 

I think if I start to count, there are something like 20 or maybe more Iranians representing other countries (or the refugee team) right now, and I'm not talking about people with Iranian heritage growing up in those countries. all of these guys raised in Iran and most (if not all) of them represented Iran at least in a Youth/Junior international competition. unbelievable ! and none of them are real "refugees" (they are lying opportunists) but if they are, Iran should be #1 country in term of "taekwondo athletes" right violation !! but this is disgusting WT is easily letting them to participate for the refugee team (some of them aren't refugees, not even on paper) and even sometimes steal medals from European athletes.

 

but maybe this Naghibzadeh can do something good for his own country, if he beats Israel in the first round (it's funny, isn't it ?) he will face Achab (Belgium) in the second round, eliminating Achab will be a big favor to our 68kg Hosseini in the Olympic ranking. even though I don't think nowadays Naghibzadeh is any good but we will see.

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Seems to be a very well organized tournament 

I somehow expected it, the usual Italian chaos ?

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Vitooooo! EUROPEAN CHAMPION! Amazing, amazing!

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all of those fake refugees lost in their first matches and it was funny this time Israel didn't show up against the Iranian athlete

 

Achab winning the gold was the worst possible news, but 63kg is weak in Europe and it was expected. let's see what Perez can do tomorrow, if he reaches the final that will put Hosseini out of top 6

 

at 58, I think DellAquila secured his Olympic quota, in this weight, South Korea, Russia, Iran and Italy are safe.

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once every while, also Italy make the home field advantage count...

 

by the way, here's a quick recap of today's medallists...

 

women's -49kg
Gold: Rukiye Yildirim
Silver: Ela Aydin
Bronze: Kyriaki Kouttouki & Elizaveta Ryadninskaya

women's -53kg
Gold: Tatiana Kudashova
Silver: Zeliha Agris
Bronze: Tijana Bogdanovic & Yasmina Aziez

men's -58kg
Gold: Vito Dell'Aquila
Silver: Jack Woolley
Bronze: Jesus Tortosa Cabrera & Gashim Magomedov

men's -63kg
Gold: Jaouad Achab
Silver: Lovre Brecic
Bronze: Levente Jozsa & Marcos Caballero

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Folks, what type of championship is this? I don’t think it’s a ‘European Championship’ as they’re usually every 2 years? The word extra there is throwing me. 
 

 Jack Woolley is Ireland’s only really international class fighter here. Nice to see him medal from 4th seed

 

he just missed out on 2016 Olympics (losing in semi of final qualifier) but he’s been consistently in top 10 ranks since so fingers crossed

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1 hour ago, dodge said:

Folks, what type of championship is this? I don’t think it’s a ‘European Championship’ as they’re usually every 2 years? The word extra there is throwing me. 
 

 Jack Woolley is Ireland’s only really international class fighter here. Nice to see him medal from 4th seed

 

he just missed out on 2016 Olympics (losing in semi of final qualifier) but he’s been consistently in top 10 ranks since so fingers crossed

 

Taekwondo wasn't part of the European Games. so this is an EXTRA European Championship to make up for that in the World Ranking. in short this is not a real European Championship but a very important tournament for the World Ranking with 40pts up for grab for the gold medalists.

 

and one can say if European Taekwondo Union can't or don't want to put taekwondo into the European Games maybe they don't deserve to have a Grade-4 tournament instead.