The world’s top taekwondo fighters gather in Mexico City next week for two days of competition that will qualify the first tranche of athletes for the Olympic Summer Games in Rio, 2016.
Taekwondo practitioners in the men’s -80kg and -58kg and in the women’s -49kg and -67kg will open the event on December 5 while Farzan Ashourzadeh and Masoud Hajizavareh will represent Iran on the first day of the tournament.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Behnam Asbaghi and Sajad Mardani will fight for Iran on the second day of the event Sunday December 6.
So far, Ashourzadeh and Khodabakhsh have secured places in Rio 2016 for Iran’s national team while Asbaghi and Mardani are seeking to win the Olympic quota at Mexico’s Grand Prix.
The 2015 WTF World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final, to be held on December 5-6 in the Mexican capital’s Sala de Armas invites the sport’s 64 highest-ranked athletes from 28 countries.
At the Final, which is the fourth Grand Prix event of the year, athletes fight it out in four male and four female Olympic weight categories where forty-eight athletes will win a ticket to Rio in what is certain to be two intense days of competition.
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