Mirhosseini Wins the Bronze Medal in Riyadh

Melika Mirhosseini achieved the bronze medal in the 1st World Taekwondo Women's championships in Riyadh.

The second day of action at the first ever World Taekwondo Women’s Open Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia brought more incredible taekwondo action with athletes from Russia, Iran and France making it through to the finals.

The women’s -73kg saw both Russia’s Polina Khan and France’s Althea Laurin advance to the final. Laurin beat fellow French athlete Marie-Paule Blé 3-0 to earn her spot in the final. Khan, meanwhile, overcame a close contest against Iran’s Melika Mirhosseini with a 2-0 Golden Point Round victory. 

The Women’s Open Championships will continue tomorrow on 27 November for the final day of action with the last of the preliminaries and semi-finals set to take place in the -53kg and -67kg categories before finals in all eight weight categories.


Today’s competition saw 65 female athletes competing across three weight categories: -49kg, -57kg and -73kg.

The head coach who leads the team is Mahroo Komrani and the coach is Reyhaneh Fooladi.

Winning athletes will secure 40.0 ranking points with second and third place taking 24 and 14.4 ranking points respectively.