Nabavi Stands in the Championship Place in Turkey

Mahtab Nabavi, Iranian worthy and honorable female defeated her Turkish rival and stood in the first place in the 9th world Parataekwondo Championships in Turkey.

The 9th World Para Taekwondo’s biggest event returns as over 250 athletes from 40+1 countries begin the road to Paris 2024 in earnest at the 2021 World Para Taekwondo Championships.

The tournament features Para Taekwondo’s new look – more weight categories, different classifications, and updated rules.

Mahtab Nabavi participated in the K41 category, weighted 57 Kgs. and in an attractive competitions won her rival from Turkey 34- 27. She grabbed the gold medal and stood in the championships palce.

Fatemeh Dodangeh (K44/ 52 Kg.) is the other female parataekwondo athlete who lost the game infront of a rival from Korea who owned the bronze medal in Tokyo Olympic games.

In the male section, Saeed Sadeghianpoor  (K44/ 63 Kg.) was the only male parataekwondo athlete from Iran. He achieved a worthy victory resulted in 22-4, but lost his second competition with a Mongolian rival and missed the medal.

Payam Khanlarkhani leads Iran  the male Parataekwondo national team as the head coach and Mehdi Ahmadi  is the coach. In the female section, Atefeh Keshavarz  accompanies the parataekwondo national team as the head coach.

It is the third time Turkey is hosting Para Taekwondo’s biggest event, following the Samsun 2015 and Antalya 2019.

Istanbul 2021 is set to become the second-biggest Para Taekwondo event of all-time. The 2019 World Championships featured 333 athletes from 66 countries, although the event included the Poomsae discipline – which will not be included at Istanbul 2021.

With new Poomsae rules passed just last week, the next Poomsae World Championships will be held in 2022.

Proving Para Taekwondo’s growing global appeal, several nations besides host Turkey will be sending record-large teams.

 Russia (30), Brazil (17), India (11), Kazakhstan (10), Serbia (10), Kenya (9), Niger (9), Georgia (6), Poland (3), Romania (1), and the World Taekwondo Refugee Team (2) all set records for numbers of athletes registered.

The events are G14 and the Olympic rankings of the athletes will raise for the first to third place about 140, 84, 50.40.