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MAY 14, 2015
Iranian Samba Athlete
Refrains Facing
Zionist Rival
ASTANA (IRNA) – A member
of Iranian national samba team
participating in Kazakhstan Samba Grand Prix here on Tuesday
refrained from participating in a
match versus a representative of
usurper Zionist regime to support
the Palestinian nation.
Some 300 participants from
28 countries around the globe
are participating in the two-day
grand prize held in Kazakhstan’s
Kyzylorda city.
The Samba Grand Prix is held
in 9 weights and Iran has participated with 4 athletes in Kazakhstan event.
In minus 74 kg Yusof Karimian
got the lot to face the representative of the racist Zionist regime
of Israel and bravely refrained
from facing him to support the
lofty cause of the oppressed Palestinian nation.
In minus 82 kg, the Iranian athlete first beat his Kazak counterpart, but then lost the match
versus his Belarusian competent
and lost the chance to continue
to the next round.
In plus 110 kg, Mila-Shiri Hajibaba first beat his Kazakh competitor in 10 seconds and then
beat his Moldavian rival, but
then lost to a Serbian athlete to
suffice to a silver medal.
Irfan Smajlagic to
Be Named As Iran
Handball Coach
with the Iranian Handball Federation.
Irfan Smajlagić
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Irfan Smajlagic is expected to be named as
Iran handball coach after the Croat
coach reached an initial agreement
He will replace Borut Macek in
the Iranian national team.
Smajlagic, 54, will travel to
Iran next week to finalize his
contract.
Irfan “Pipe” Smajlagic is a Bosnian former handball player who
competed in the 1988 Summer
Olympics for Yugoslavia and in the
1996 Summer Olympics for Croatia.
He was born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 1988 he was part of the Yugoslav team which won the bronze
medal. He played five matches and
scored 14 goals.
Iranian Books Berth at World Taekwondo
Championships
MOSCOW (Press TV) - Farzan Ashourzadeh, better known as
Iran’s Tsunami, has booked a berth
in the -58kg semifinals of the 2015
WTF World Taekwondo Championships at the Traktor Arena of
Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The Iranian phenom handed his
Mexican rival a 9-2 drubbing in
Tuesday’s quarterfinal of the
22nd edition of the World Taekwondo
Federation-organized
meet.
Getting a first-round bye, the
teen breezed past the Kyrgyz
taekwondoka 17-3 and had 14-6
and 11-1 walkovers in his fights
against Ecuadorian and Thai representatives respectively.
Ashourzadeh, who won the gold
medal in the flyweight division
(-58kg) at the 2014 Asian Games
in Incheon, South Korea, and
has the 2014 Asian 2015 Lotto
Dutch Open gold medals under
his belt, will take on a semifinalist from the host country Russia
on Wednesday.
The tournament, which runs for
seven days from May 12-18, is a
key gateway for athletes seeking
Olympic glory.
“Everyone knows the significance of the championships in
relation to the Olympics,” worldtaekwondofederation.net quoted
Yang Jin-bang, the WTF Technical Committee chairman and director general of the WTF Seoul
headquarters, as saying.
The official added the event offers the biggest tranche of seeding points prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics. ”We are now on
track to Rio!”
A group of elite athletes, speaking at a press conference on the
eve of battle, differed over how the
looming Olympic pressure would
affect their performances.
Asked how important it was
to add a world championship
to his list of titles, Italy’s Car-
said. “But it is first this, then the
European Games in Baku, then
we will see.”
Jahanbakhsh Best
Player of Jupiler
League
and the bronze medalist in London 2012. “And I still enjoy it.”
Registered for the seven-day
Alireza Jahanbakhsh
BRUSSELS (Persian League) scorer in the first division with
- Iranian international striker of 28 goals. He also received a
NEC Alireza Jahanbakhsh has been Golden Bull.
named as the best player of the CoThe award for the best coach
operative First Division.
went to Jean-Paul de Jong from FC
The 21-year-old striker scored 12 Eindhoven.
goals and 18 assists in the season
Joey Sleegers, who played for
and was honored as the best player Feyenoord on loan from Eindof the Jupiler League.
hoven, was named as the greatest
Jahanbakhsh received the talent.
Golden Bull. His teammate
Netherlands coach Guus Hiddink
Sjoerd Ars became the top presented the award to him.
Khayyam in Ping
Pong Talent
Identification Camp
TEHRAN (MNA) – Iranian
young table tennis player was
selected to participate in talent
identification camp of World Table Tennis Association.
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) annually holds
talent identification and selection camps with world’s top 16
players present in the event.
To attend the training camp,
Asia holds three quotas for each
gender group, one of which is
dedicated to Iran’s table tennis.
Radin Khayyam is Iranian
young table tennis player who
will represent the country in
the new round of talent identification camp of World Table
Tennis Association which will
be held on June 29 to July 5 in
Shanghai, China.
Japan U-16 Women to
Renew Acquaintances
With DPR Korea
KUALA LUMPUR (AFC) - Defending champions Japan will renew acquaintances with DPR Korea at the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship 2015
after the two were pitted against each other during the tournament’s official
draw on Wednesday.
Iranian Taekwondo athlete Farzan Ashourzadeh (R)
For one athlete, the pressure event are 873 players – 525 male
lo Molfetta, the London 2012
Olympic gold medalist, said, in Chelyabinsk is particularly and 348 female – representing
“I never took a gold medal [in intense: Russia’s Olga Ivanova 139 countries. They will be batworld championships] but this hails from the host city. “Defi- tling for medals in 16 weight
is not the problem. One year be- nitely, I am a bit nervous!’ she categories, eight male and eight
fore the Olympic Games, I think said. “An event in Chelyabinsk female. Matches will be held on
the important thing is to take is an additional responsibility for five octagonal courts at Chelypoints.”
me, but there is also additional abinsk’s Traktor Arena.
Technologies designed to ensure
Other athletes take the pressure support for me from family and
fairness and transparency will be
in their stride.
friends.”
“I realize that I have only one
Fellow Russian Albert Gaon – fully leveraged. The championyear left for the Olympics, but one of the sport’s great charac- ships will use a Daedo electronic
I will perform as always: I rely ters and the winner of the 2014 protector and scoring system
on fair refereeing and myself,” Grand Prix Final – denied the (PSS) on both body and head; it
said Korea’s Lee Dae-hoon, a sil- pressure of home-turf expecta- is the first time electronic head
ver medalist from London 2012. tions. “It won’t affect my per- protectors have been used at a
formance, I will relax, I will taekwondo world championship.
“There are no secrets here.”
Croatia’s Lucija Zaninovic, the dance I will smile,” he said. “No
There will also be three cameras
2012 London Olympic bronze changes for me!”
available for video replays, while
Indeed, enjoying the game may 100 international referees will
medalist, is taking things one step
at a time. “For me, every compe- be the secret to taekwondo lon- oversee the action.
tition is the same and every com- gevity. “The secret of 20 years at
The 2015 championship also
petition is important, and this is a the world level in taekwondo is marks the first time a World Taeworld championship, so it is one to enjoy every training session,” kwondo Championship has been
dimension higher, as it is the last said Mexico’s Maria Espinoza, held in Russia, a rising power in
championship before Rio,” she the gold medalist in Beijing 2008 the sport.
The draw at AFC House in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur
placed the Japanese in Group B with DPR Korea, who they beat in the
final of the last edition in 2013. Chinese Taipei and Uzbekistan complete
the group.
Meanwhile, hosts China find themselves in Group A alongside Iran,
Korea Republic and Thailand, who they edged for third place in 2013.
Japan, China, DPR Korea and Thailand gained automatic entries into
the competition by finishing in the top four of the last edition.
Uzbekistan, Iran, Korea Republic and Chinese Taipei punched their
tickets to the finals after winning their respective qualifying groups.
The eight teams will play a one-round league, whereby each team in the
group will play one match against every other team.
The top two teams in each group (four teams in total) will qualify for
the semi-finals where the two winners will play in the final match to
determine the champion while the losing teams will play in the 3rd/4th
place play-off.
The championship will be held in Wuhan from November 4 to 15, 2015.
THE GROUPS:
Group A: China, Thailand, Iran, Korea Republic
Group B: Japan, DPR Korea, Chinese Taipei, Uzbekistan