Hana Zarrinkamar Roudbari and Benyamin Soltanian helped Iran to win two gold medals on day three of the Tashkent World Taekwondo Junior Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day also saw the Uzbek capital also featured victories for Thailand\u2019s Kanbusakorn Pichaisongkram and Korea\u2019s Lee Geun-mi.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women’s +68kg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zarrinkamar Roudbari impressed throughout the day at the Martial Arts Sports Complex in Tashkent\u2019s Olympic City, and sealed Iran\u2019s second gold medal of the World Taekwondo Junior Championships with victory in the final against Czechia\u2019s Alice B\u00ednov\u00e1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That followed on from Zarrinkamar Roudbari\u2019s triumph in the -68kg weight category at the Chuncheon 2024 World Taekwondo Junior Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She clinched the first round against B\u00ednov\u00e1 by points gap in swift fashion, and dominated the second round to win 11-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Croatia\u2019s Sara \u017di\u017ei\u0107 and Chinese Taipei\u2019s Zhang Ziyun took the bronze medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men’s -73kg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Iran\u2019s second gold medal of the day and third of the championships came courtesy of Soltanian, who did not lose a round on his route to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soltanian delivered a controlled display in the final against Korea\u2019s Ahn Seung-Min, winning the two rounds 4-1 and 7-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ukraine\u2019s Roman Hodyma and T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Ercan Berk \u0130mamo\u011flu were bronze medallists.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men’s -45kg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pichaisongkram produced a masterful display in the Men’s -45kg final against Russia\u2019s Tamerlan Kamalov to earn his country\u2019s first gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two intense rounds both went the way of Pichaisongkram as he staved off his opponent superbly. He took the first 2-1 after conceding a late Gam-jeom and the second 2-0 to complete his victory without losing a round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pichaisongkram overcame home favourite Shokhjakhon Kholmuratov of Uzbekistan in the semi-finals, while the podium was completed by Utku Kap of T\u00fcrkiye, who lost out to Kamalov on the other side of the draw.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women’s -42kg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An intriguing final went the way of Geun-mi, the reigning world cadet champion at -37kg, although she was pushed all the way by Greece\u2019s Paraskevi Kalogirou in a closely fought encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An early Gam-jeom conceded by Kalogirou was enough for Geun-mi to take the first round 1-0, and she looked on course to win a scoreless second round until her opponent produced a brilliant body kick in the final seconds and prevailed 3-1 to force a decider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Geun-mi edged the scoreless third round to add Korea\u2019s second gold medal of the World Taekwondo Junior Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bronze medals went to Iran\u2019s Bahar Tahmasebi and Poland\u2019s Lena Kaszkowiak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day four of the Tashkent 2026 World Taekwondo Junior Championships will feature events in the M -59kg and -78kg, and the W -44kg and -68kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hana Zarrinkamar Roudbari and Benyamin Soltanian helped Iran to win two gold medals on day three of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-taekwondo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zarrinkamar-Roudbari-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11688,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/11688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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