The judges also awarded her a medal for striking technique.
Athlete from Tuapse Arina Makeeva replenished her treasury of awards at the world taekwondo championship in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
In the masogi discipline, where sparring fights take place, Arina defeated all her rivals and took first place in the weight category up to 65 kg. She also won a silver award in the stop-point discipline, which evaluates the technique of striking.
More than 1,500 athletes from 27 countries took part in the competition. Arina is a pupil of sports school No. 8 in the village of Nebug. The athlete is trained by Grigory Garmider. Previously, the girl won regional and all-Russian taekwondo tournaments.
Also, “Kuban News” reported that the Kuban athlete took the “gold” of the international wrestling tournament. The representative of the Krasnodar Territory Timur Bizhoev in the final in the weight up to 74 kg was opposed by the current Olympic champion, two-time winner of the World Championship Zaurbek Sidakov from North Ossetia. In the last seconds of an equal fight, Bizhoev carried out a productive attack and became the winner of the competition.
2023-08-01 06:40:29
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