{"id":5411,"date":"2025-10-30T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:53:39","slug":"wafa-kicks-out-olympic-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wafa-kicks-out-olympic-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Wafa kicks out Olympic champion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Masghouni Wafa claimed a stunning victory over the reigning women\u2019s -67kg Olympic champion Viviana M\u00e1rton of Hungary to triumph on her debut at the World Taekwondo Championships in Wuxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was Tunisia\u2019s second gold medal of the event. Also grabbing gold was Iran\u2019s Abolfazl Zandi in the men\u2019s -58kg, who overcame Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN) Georgii Gurtsiev in the Men\u2019s -58kg final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u00e1rton had been in imperious form as she aimed to follow in the footsteps of her sister Luana, who had won gold in the -67kg category the day earlier. She did not lose a round on her way to the final, including a quarter-final victory against AIN Liliia Khuzina, the defending champion, and a semi-final win against Chen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the gold medal match, M\u00e1rton had looked set to take the first round having led throughout, but Wafa stayed in the contest and in closing seconds produced a brilliant body kick to tie at 7-7 and win it on connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wafa was crowned world junior champion in Chuncheon last year, and she added a senior title to it with a performance of great maturity in the second round. Again it finished level, remaining scoreless, but Wafa triumphed on connections and celebrated an astonishing victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had earlier beaten Blewitt in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/inals-of-M-58kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/inals-of-M-58kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/inals-of-M-58kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/inals-of-M-58kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Abolfazl Zandi overcame Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN) Georgii Gurtsiev (Photo World Taekwondo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 world junior champion Zandi impressed throughout the day, and claimed gold with a superb performance in the men\u2019s -58kg final. He demonstrated great discipline and control in the first round to beat Gurtsiev 7-3, and a thrilling second round saw both athletes in search of points, with Zandi taking it 12-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zandi had earlier beaten the home favourite Huang, who won China\u2019s seventh bronze and eighth medal overall at the World Taekwondo Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gurtsiev matched the silver he won at the Baku 2023 World Taekwondo Championships, and his day included a fine victory against the -58kg Olympic silver medallist Magomedov. The first round had gone the way of Magomedov, but Gurtsiev hit back to win the following two rounds and take his place in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s final day of competition will feature the men\u2019s -74kg and women\u2019s -53kg events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masghouni Wafa claimed a stunning victory over the reigning women\u2019s -67kg Olympic champion Viviana M\u00e1rton of Hungary to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5412,"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-5411","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\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6.jpeg",1900,1267,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-1536x1024.jpeg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6.jpeg",1900,1267,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/newsbeat\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Finals-of-W-62kg-of-Wuxi-2025-World-Taekwondo-Championships-Day-6.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411","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=5411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}