Kalogirou wins bronze medal at the World Tae-kwon-do for boys and girls

A few days after the three medals won by the teenagers at the European Youth Taekwondo Championships in Estonia, Greece celebrated winning a bronze world medal, with Paraskevi Kalogirou in the -148cm (-45kg) category ).

The Greek champion, in her second participation in the girls’ world championship, reached third place, in a category where a total of 25 athletes participated. In the match for the round of 32, Kalogirou defeated the Egyptian Noeman 2-0, while she qualified for the quarterfinals after the victory with the same score against the Australian Lee-Diep.

In the match of the octet against Azera Azamatkizi, she was impressive, after taking the victory, 1.83 seconds before the end of the third period (2-1).

In the semi-finals and against Italian Lambis, Kalogirou won the first period, but did not do as well in the next two, resulting in a 2-1 score to take third place, giving Greek tae-kwon-do fifth place of the medal in the history of the event.

Competitions continue on Tuesday with the categories boys -156cm, -160cm, -164cm and girls -156cm, -160cm