G\u00f6\u011febakan earned an impressive victory in two rounds against Bekulova, showing great maturity to prevent her opponent from scoring in the first round and take it 5-0, before getting the better of Bekulova in the second and winning it 7-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That rounded off a neat treble for G\u00f6\u011febakan, who was a bronze medallist at the Baku 2014 World Taekwondo Cadet Championships, silver medallist at the Hammamet 2018 World Taekwondo Junior Championships and now gold medallist in Wuxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
G\u00f6\u011febakan overcame Kazakhstan\u2019s Aidana Kumartayeva in her semi-final, while in the other half of the draw Bekulova earned an fine win against China\u2019s Asian champion Shiyi Wang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men\u2019s -80kg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rodrigues Fernandes triumphed in a hotly contested Men\u2019s -80kg weight category, claiming several notable victories along the way. In the quarter-finals, he beat CJ Nickolas of the USA, the Baku 2023 silver medallist and winner of back-to-back World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge events in Charlotte, USA and Muju, Korea this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He then overcame a tough challenge from AIN Artem Mytarev in the semi-finals, setting up a final against home favourite Qizhang Xiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xiang had knocked out the Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist Mehran Barkhordari of Iran in the quarter-finals, and won a three-round thriller against Geon Woo Seo in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seo earlier defeated the Olympic champion Firas Katousi of Tunisia in the quarter-final, underlining the strength and depth of talent in the -80kg weight division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both rounds in the final were closely fought, but it was Rodrigues Fernandes who edged the first 2-1 and a scoreless second to earn Brazil\u2019s first gold medal of Wuxi 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s +73kg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Women\u2019s +73kg was another star-studded field, ending with a titanic clash between Ku\u015f Aydin and Osipova, who won bronze and silver respectively at last year\u2019s Olympic Games in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultimately, it went the same way as in Baku two years ago, as Ku\u015f Aydin recovered from losing the first round to defend her title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Osipova edged the first round 3-2, but Ku\u015f Aydin showed all her experience to stay in the contest and take the second, which finished 5-5. That led to a decider, which Ku\u015f Aydin clinched 6-0 to seal victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She had not dropped a round en route to the final, including an assured display in the semi-final against Great Britain\u2019s Lauren Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Osipova meanwhile was involved in three intriguing matches which went to three rounds leading up to the final, including her semi-final against Wenzhe Mu of China, the World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge winner in Charlotte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Day five of the Wuxi 2025 World Taekwondo Championships will feature competition in the Men\u2019s -68kg and Women\u2019s -67kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" T\u00fcrkiye celebrated two gold medals on the fourth day of the Wuxi 2025 World Taekwondo Championships through Emine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5298,"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-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-taekwondo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Medalist-of-M-80kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-4.jpeg\")