2017 World Judo Championships

[IRAN300]

The championship has started on monday.

Our first 2 judokas have been eliminated (Rashnou in 60kg and Mohammadi in 73kg) earlier this week.

Saeid Mollaei (81kg) competed today and has just reached semifinals.
He will fight in 1 hour in order to get our first medal in this sport since 2007.
He just eliminated WR#3 in quarterfinal earlier on.

Link to watch the competition:

https://live.ijf.org/#!/wc_sen2017/live_video

[Irannn]

I was following Mollaei the whole day, he had no plan in his semifinal against someone weaker than himself but at least he came back strongly to win the bronze medal. this is our first Judo medal after 10 years and our 6th medal overal

in past Arash Miresmaeili had won 4 medals (2 gold and 2 bronze) and Mahmoud Miran had 1 bronze medal.

I hope this helps our Judo to improve once again, we used to be a powerhouse in this sport 15 years ago ! after being VERY VERY bad for few years, this year we started to get better results in the Asian Championship and now this medal. our other Judokas were somehow competitive but they are mostly young . we have one more left but no chance for medal.

Rashnonejad lost to Kazakhstan in 3rd round.
Mohammadi lost to Korea in 2nd round
Ramin Safavieh (Youth Olympics gold medalist) will start with Japan. very bad draw.

[IRAN300]

I was following Mollaei the whole day, he had no plan in his semifinal against someone weaker than himself but at least he came back strongly to win the bronze medal. this is our first Judo medal after 10 years and our 6th medal overal

in past Arash Miresmaeili had won 4 medals (2 gold and 2 bronze) and Mahmoud Miran had 1 bronze medal.

I hope this helps our Judo to improve once again, we used to be a powerhouse in this sport 15 years ago ! after being VERY VERY bad for few years, this year we started to get better results in the Asian Championship and now this medal. our other Judokas were somehow competitive but they are mostly young . we have one more left but no chance for medal.

Rashnonejad lost to Kazakhstan in 3rd round.
Mohammadi lost to Korea in 2nd round
Ramin Safavieh (Youth Olympics gold medalist) will start with Japan. very bad draw.

Could u tell me how did he lost in semifinal please ? (It was geo restricted for me). I only saw that he gave a waza-ari.

As u said, we have now a real team after so many years.
Guys in 60 and 73 are decent, we have also Khojasteh in 66 (another Asian medallist) but they preferred to send him to Junior World Championships as they believe he can medal there.
Safaviyeh is definitely the most talented, but unfortunately his progression was slowed down because of shoulder and back injuries (and they didn't used him in international competitions because Mahjoub was #1 in his weight), he is just coming back from surgery which made him lose the Asian Championships and the whole season. But we can expect good results in future from him.

We even medalled with this young team in the team competition of Asians, without a good heavyweight, which tells a lot when u have top world nations such as Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan or Mongolia against you.

Actually we had a good team back in 2011-2013, Roudaki finished 5th at 2011 WCh quite unluckily and was among top medal contenders at +100kg for London OG, threatening even Riner himself. Unfortunately injury prevented him to compete there and he could never come back to judo again.
Israeli presence prevented in form Mahjoub to compete in London also.

And when they fired the Italian coach, the next people in charge of the team ruined everything and the team turned into "tavileh" as the coach liked to call it himself.
The lowest point was the time when they used to steal water bottles from other teams, as said on the famous video from one of the athletes from that time.

I hope that we can gradually come back to our status of top nation we had until Beijing 2008. But even having 1 or 2 potential medallists is very fine.

[Irannn]

Could u tell me how did he lost in semifinal please ? (It was geo restricted for me). I only saw that he gave a waza-ari.

Shame on me for not knowing the name of Judo techniques ! those Japanese names ... I used to know them, but since 2008 and rule changes I didn't follow Judo that much.

while he was the strongest, after a minute he gave up a waza-ari on a simple leg attack (similar to osoto gari but from inside the legs). then the Italian killed time for 3 minutes with the same false attack. (the one you see a lot in Judo and much more in Ju jitsu) Mollaei claimed he got robbed in the semifinal, I don't think so but if the ref was a bit sharper she could penalize him for that and of course that would change everything when you have one or two shidos on the scoreboard. the Italian knew Mollaei (and Iranians in general) are no good in ne-waza. so he was lying on the tatami the whole match !

[IRAN300]

Shame on me for not knowing the name of Judo techniques ! those Japanese names ... I used to know them, but since 2008 and rule changes I didn't follow Judo that much.

while he was the strongest, after a minute he gave up a waza-ari on a simple leg attack (similar to osoto gari but from inside the legs). then the Italian killed time for 3 minutes with the same false attack. (the one you see a lot in Judo and much more in Ju jitsu) Mollaei claimed he got robbed in the semifinal, I don't think so but if the ref was a bit sharper she could penalize him for that and of course that would change everything when you have one or two shidos on the scoreboard. the Italian knew Mollaei (and Iranians in general) are no good in ne-waza. so he was lying on the tatami the whole match !

Thanks.
Don't worry, I just wanted to know about the match scenario.
He oftenly loses by small margin.
Remember, he only lost by cautions to the Russian guy in the first round of OG, later on that day the Russian became Olympic Champion.

[Irannn]

Thanks.
Don't worry, I just wanted to know about the match scenario.
He oftenly loses by small margin.
Remember, he only lost by cautions to the Russian guy in the first round of OG, later on that day the Russian became Olympic Champion.

Yeah and he picked one of the shidos for checking his Judogi belt without referee's order ! this is stupid to lose a possible Olympic medal this way.