Taekwondo 2017 Discussion Thread

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[MHSN 3,630]

Less than two months before the World Championships, Greece hosted the president Cup, Euro G2 tournament which is probably the toughest tournament in the world because of the huge number of participants. I think only Korea was missing ! here is the list of medalists

 

Men

 

54kg

1. Hadipour, Armin

2. Magomedov, Gashim

3. Haider, Hassan Abibilla, Azamat

 

58kg

1. Kazemi, Mohammad

2. Uscov, Serghei

3. Simitsis, Georgios Artamonov, Mikhail

 

63kg

1. Hosseini, Mirhashem

2. Sinden, Bradly

3. Brecic, Lovre Achab, Jaouad

 

68kg

1. Yaghoubi, Abolfazl

2. Perez Polo, Javier

3. Bahrami, Sina Ketbi, Si Mohamed

 

74kg

1. Khramtcov, Maksim

2. Kanaet, Toni

3. Fejzic, Damir Rafalovich, Nikita

 

80kg

1. Beigi, Milad

2. Sari, Yunus

3. Asp, John Cook, Aaron

 

87kg

1. Larin, Vladislav

2. Ros Gàmez, Daniel

3. Bachmann, Alexander Yuksel, Serdar

 

+87kg

1. Aiukaev, Rafail

2. Isaev, Radik

3. Mardani, Sajjad Shelest, Mykhailo

 

 

Women

 

46kg

1. Yildirim, Rukiye

2. Romoldanova, Iryna

3. Kouttouki, Kyriaki Akalin, Ruhat

 

49kg

1. Palmer Soler, Blanca

2. Eardley, Courtney

3. Sakhautdinova, Regina Anokhina, Anastasiia

 

53kg

1. Kudashova, Tatiana

2. Bogdanovic, Tijana

3. Dosucukur, Zehra Tarvida, Inese

 

57kg

1. Jones, Jade

2. Kim, Ekaterina

3. Eris, Yaprak Ilgun, Hatice Kubra

 

62kg

1. Calvo Gomez, Marta

2. Yaman, Irem

3. Sogut, Seyma Nur Turutina, Yulia

 

67kg

1. Williams, Lauren

2. Johansson, Elin

3. Tatar, Nur Azizova, Farida

 

73kg

1. Castro Burgos, Cecilia

2. Zhdanova, Karina

3. Cansel, Deniz Bulut, Sude

 

+73kg

1. Walkden, Bianca

2. Kowalczuk, Aleksandra

3. Graffe, Anne-Caroline Simon Alamo, Rosanna

 

Edited April 30, 2017 by MHSN

[MHSN 3,630]

by looking at the men's results, we sent almost all of our world team candidates here as a kind of trial for them. they won all lower 4 weights gold medals ! beside that only Mardani came back with a bronze in super heavyweight. I guess most of our "veterans" like Asbaghi, Hajji-Z and Mardani have to say goodbye and just retire. this is time for the new generation. some of them like Yaghoubi and Hadipour are really fun to watch.

 

After the notorious "Olympic disaster" Iran men's taekwondo program went trough turmoil and they changed the whole thing. Khodabakhshi lost here and I don't think he can be the same "Champion" again. Ashourzadeh after losing to Morocco at the Olympics came back to the competition once again but had to withdraw because of Israel draw ! the same Israeli guy we were afraid to meet him in Rio ! he is still very young to be considered done but it will be a mammoth task for him to comeback after what happened in Rio, he went from being a hero to zero in just one second of carelessness.

 

beside that Milad Beigi continued his impressive run, if I'm not wrong in past 2 years he lost only and only one match (Olympic semifinal), the was exactly the only single match I wanted him to win to keep our athlete alive for the bronze medal repechage.

Edited April 30, 2017 by MHSN

[heywoodu 15,172]

17 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

beside that Milad Beigi continued his impressive run, if I'm not wrong in past 2 years he lost only and only one match (Olympic semifinal), the was exactly the only single match I wanted him to win to keep our athlete alive for the bronze medal repechage.

Thanks for reminding me, if he had won that match I would have won like 300 euros and if he had won the final after that I would have won like 2500 euros 

[MHSN 3,630]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Thanks for reminding me, if he had won that match I would have won like 300 euros and if he had won the final after that I would have won like 2500 euros 

 

I see that was quite a loss for you. that was logical bet, Beigi was clear favorite in Rio but after beating his archrival and former compatriot in quarterfinal, our taekwondo federation president called him and his coach traitor, don't want to go more into details and apparently those conversations had negative affects on him few minutes later in the semifinal, that was stupid since his loss also eliminated Iran's chance for at least a bronze medal.

 

personally I'm not into betting or even prediction contests . because I prefer to enjoy the competition. I mean I knew Beigi is the clear favorite against our guy (or anybody else) but that was hard to bet/predict against our own athlete.

 

btw since Iranian athletes usually don't stay on top for so many years, I expect Beigi to start getting weaker soon hopefully.

[heywoodu 15,172]

3 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

I see that was quite a loss for you. that was logical bet, Beigi was clear favorite in Rio but after beating his archrival and former compatriot in quarterfinal, our taekwondo federation president called him and his coach traitor, don't want to go more into details and apparently those conversations had negative affects on him few minutes later in the semifinal, that was stupid since his loss also eliminated Iran's chance for at least a bronze medal.

 

personally I'm not into betting or even prediction contests . because I prefer to enjoy the competition. I mean I knew Beigi is the clear favorite against our guy (or anybody else) but that was hard to bet/predict against our own athlete.

 

btw since Iranian athletes usually don't stay on top for so many years, I expect Beigi to start getting weaker soon hopefully.

Well I remember the first odds for Beigi to win gold were around 40 (!) and they later dropped to 15, which still seemed incredibly high after all I had heard about him hear, so I have no regrets about the bet  

 

I hope for 2020 another 'unkown' athlete is really strong and bookmakers forget about him again  

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1st stage of GP started today in Moscow , but for sorry there's only live streaming for the semis and no scores provided 

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any scores from today's weight categories ? 

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3rd World Taekwondo Cadet Championships

August 24-27, 2017 / Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

 

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the draw

 

• DAY 1 – Draw
• DAY 2 – Draw
• DAY 3 – Draw
• DAY 4 – Draw

 

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