phelps 6,852 Posted October 31, 2019 #1 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Taekwondo WTE Extra European Championships 2019 Bari (ITA) - 1 November 2019 - 3 November 2019 Official Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,852 Posted October 31, 2019 Author #2 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Instant Messaging for Bari 2019 is now available. If you want to stay up-to-date as coach or team manager about the last news, drawsheets and results, download the Telegram App and join WTE Bari 2019 instant messaging. Telegram APP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,852 Posted October 31, 2019 Author #3 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Links to Streaming sessions for all the 3 competition days, here: https://www.facebook.com/TKDFITA/posts/10156787940217399 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,212 Posted October 31, 2019 #4 Share Posted October 31, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prso1000 539 Posted November 1, 2019 #5 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Seems to be a very well organized tournament I somehow expected it, the usual Italian chaos ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,572 Posted November 1, 2019 #6 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Vitooooo! EUROPEAN CHAMPION! Amazing, amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,212 Posted November 1, 2019 #7 Share Posted November 1, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,852 Posted November 1, 2019 Author #8 Share Posted November 1, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodge 697 Posted November 2, 2019 #9 Share Posted November 2, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,212 Posted November 2, 2019 #10 Share Posted November 2, 2019 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. dodge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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