Publish Date: 20 October 2008 - 19:27

TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA)-- The Iranian junior judo team is to travel to Bangkok tomorrow to participate in the 2008 Junior World Championships to be held from October 23-26.

Iran will take part in the competitions with four judokas. They are as follow:
Mehdi Hadiha in the 60-kg class, Hojjat Rahnama in the 90-kg class, Mojtaba Nikbin in the 100-kg class and Mojtaba Ahmadzadeh in the +100-kg class.

The team will be headed by Ata Abbasnejad and Yunes Karimian in the championship.

The previous edition was held in the Dominican Republic in 2006.

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