Taekwondo team leaves for Rome to participate in the Grand Prix championship
Al-anbat - Yasmin
Tashli
The delegation of the
national taekwondo team left on Tuesday, for the Italian capital, Rome, to
participate in the first round of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix, one of the
strongest and most important taekwondo tournaments in the world.
The tournament is
classified as 6-stars, and it will be held from 3 to 5 June, with the
participation of a group of international and Olympic Taekwondo champions of
both sexes.
The national team will
represent 7 male and female players in this tournament for the first time, as
these players ensured that they were among the best 32 players in all weight
categories, thanks to their many points and their remarkable progression on the
world rankings ladder.
The national team
lineup consists of male and female players: Mahmoud Al-Tarareh (under 58 kg),
Zaid Al-Halawani, Zaid Mustafa (under 68 kg), Fahd Ammar and Saleh Al-Sharbati
(under 80 kg), Juliana Al-Sadiq (under 68 kg), and Rama Abu Al-Rub (overweight 67
kg).
The national team, led
by Coach Faris Al-Assaf, is looking forward to achieving the best results and
continuing to reap the achievements as well as accumulating the largest number
of classification points, which will play an important role in the process of
qualifying for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The winner of the gold
medal in the round of Rome will get 60 points, while the silver medalist will
get 36 points, and the two bronze medalists will get 21.6 points each, compared
to 12.96 points for each player who reached the quarter-finals and 9.07 points
for the players who succeeded in qualifying for the round of matches 16, and in
return, each player who participated in this round will be guaranteed to get
6.35 points.
The Rome World Tour
will see the implementation of the new system for determining the winner of the
fights, where the player who wins 2 out of 3 rounds will win the fight, instead
of calculating the total points.
