Iran claims two more golds at 2026 World Junior Taekwondo
Iranian athletes captured two gold medals and one bronze on the third day of the 15th World Taekwondo Junior Championships in Tashkent.
The six-day premier global tournament at the Olympic Sports Complex has drawn 986 competitors from 115 nations. Iran has fielded a robust 19-athlete squad, comprising 10 boys and 9 girls, across the 20 weight classes.
In the girls' +68 kg category, Hana Zarrinkamar secured Iran's second gold of the event.
She defeated Greece’s Pramatioti (2-0), the Netherlands' Vroegh (2-1), Tunisia's Ilef Aleya (2-0), and Croatia's Sara Zizic (2-0) before decisively sweeping the Czech Republic’s Binova 2-0 in the final.
Benyamin Soltanian was equally dominant in the boys' -73 kg, claiming gold without dropping a single round.
After a first-round bye, he swept Greece’s Kamakas, Bosnia’s Hodzic, Mexico’s Joshua Cruz, and Ukraine’s Roman Hodyma 2-0. He then blanked South Korea’s Seung Min Ahn 2-0 in the title bout to capture Iran's third overall gold.
In the girls' -42 kg, Bahar Tahmasebi earned a hard-fought bronze. She overcame Egypt’s Judy (2-1), Russia’s Selezneva, Germany’s Zander (2-0), and Spain’s Adria Lopez (2-0). Her run ended in the semifinals with a narrow 2-1 defeat to South Korea’s Lee Geunmi.
These victories build upon Iran's early momentum in Uzbekistan. On Monday, Mohammad Erfan Khodaei dominated the tatami in the boys' -55 kg, winning all six of his matches without losing a round to claim Iran's first gold, alongside a bronze medal won earlier by Pinar Lotfizadeh.
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