Iran's Taekwondo squad fly to Rome to compete in 1st round of 2019
Grand Prix
According to the Public Relation's department of the Iranian Taekwondo Federation, Iran's squad, made up of 4 athletes, will fly to the Italian capital on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at 5:40 a.m.
Iran's line up includes: Armin Hadipour (M-58kg), Mirhashem Hosseini (M-68kg), Soroush Ahmadi (M-68kg), and Sajjad Mardani (M+80kg).
The Team is led by Fariborz Askari as the head coach and Vahid Abdollahi as the coach.
This tournament is a G4 one and hosts top 30 athletes of each Olympic weight category, based on the World Taekwondo Olympic ranking, plus 1 athlete from the host country.
The gold, silver and bronze medal winners will garnish 40, 24, and 14.4 points, respectively and would also collect cash prizes of $5000, $3000 and $1000 in turn.
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