Iranian Athletes Bag 3 Golds at Karate 1-Premier League
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6 October 7, 2019 Iranian Athletes Bag 3 Golds Iran Lose to Unbeaten at Karate 1-Premier League Brazil at FIVB World Cup MOSCOW (Dispatches) – Ira- Georgia’s Gogita Arkania 7-3 in nian athletes won three gold medals, the final of Male Kumite +84 and one silver and one bronze at the Ka- claimed a silver medal. rate 1 - Premier League Moscow on Earlier on the day, Bahman As- Sunday. gari Ghoncheh from Iran had Rozita Alipour edged Haya Ju- claimed a bronze medal at the maa from Canada 1-0 in the Fe- Male Kumite -75kg by beating his male Kumite -61kg final. Spanish opponent Rodrigo Ibanez Sara Bahmanyar defeated Ger- 3-1. man karate competitor Shara Hu- Karate 1 - Premier League Mos- brich 1-0 in the final of the Female cow brought 642 competitors to- Kumite -50kg. gether from 85 countries in Mos- And Zabihollah Poorshab de- cow, Russia. feated Ryutaro Araga of Japan in The competition started on Fri- the Male Kumite -84kg final to win day, October 4 and will continue Sara Bahmanyar defeated German karate competitor Shara Hubrich Iran’s third gold in the competition. until Sunday when the medal bouts TOKYO (Dispatches) – Iran Team Melli will play USA on 1-0 in the final of the Female Kumite -50kg failed to beat Brazil and lost 3-1 Wednesday. Sajad Ganjzadeh also lost to will be celebrated. (25-27, 25-21, 27-25, 25-22) at the The 2019 edition of the FIVB International Volleyball Federa- Volleyball Men’s World Cup tion (FIVB) Men’s World Cup on features 12 national teams from Djokovic Downs Millman to Win His First Japan Open Title Sunday. the five continental confedera- TOKYO (Reuters) – World and the 32-year-old won the title It was Iran’s third defeat in the tions playing in Nagano, Fukuo- competition. Igor Kolakovic’s ka and Hiroshima in a round- number one Novak Djokovic won without dropping a set in the team had previously lost to Rus- robin format from October 1 to his first Japan Open title and the tournament. sia and Egypt and defeated Can- 15. 76th of his career with a domi- Djokovic won a whopping ada and Australia. The Men’s World Cup kicked Porya Yali had 25 points for off for five match days in Fu- nant 6-3 6-2 win over Australian 87% of his first service points Iran and Brazil’s Yoandy Leal kuoka and Nagano before teams John Millman in the final in To- and fired six aces, never giv- Hidalgo scored 16 points at Na- move to Hiroshima for the re- kyo on Sunday. ing Millman a whiff of a gano White Ring. maining six match days. It was a triumphant return to break point. He also broke the the tour for Djokovic, who had 30-year-old Australian ranked Hoffenheim Shock Bayern withdrawn from the U.S. Open 79 places below him three times in the fourth round due to a in the match. 2-1 in Bundesliga shoulder injury, and it was the Novak Djokovic of Serbia in action against John Millman of Australia. Djokovic has already qualified 10th time he had won a title on for next month’s season-ending The top seeded Serb needed Millman — who was playing his tournament debut. ATP Finals in London. only 69 minutes to dispatch in his maiden ATP 500 final — Biles Tops Women’s Qualification at Gymnastics Worlds STUTTGART (Dispatches) -- The top eight teams in qualifica- The U.S. team rallied in the 12th ance beam after falls from Grace Olympic champion Simone Biles, tion advance to the team finals in and final subdivision for a total of McCallum and Sunisa Lee. performing two new ultra-difficult el- Stuttgart. The top 24 gymnasts in 174.205 points, surpassing first-day Biles, the four-time defending ements, spurred the U.S. team to lead the all-around and top eight on each leader China’s score of 169.161. world champion in all-around, qual- the women’s qualification at the 2019 apparatus qualify to the individual The U.S. had the top team totals on ified first to the individual final with Artistic Gymnastics World Champi- finals, with a maximum of two gym- vault and floor exercises but were 59.432 and once again advanced to onships. nasts from each nation in each final. unable to overcome China on bal- all four apparatus finals. Desisa Leads Ethiopian One-Two in Men’s Marathon FC Bayern Munich’s Kingsley Coman (L) vies with Robert Skov of Hof- DOHA (AP) - The penultimate day of the athletics world championships fenheim during the Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Mu- saw three meet records renewed while Lelisa Desisa led a one-two finish for nich and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in Munich, Germany, on Oct. 5, 2019. Ethiopia in men’s marathon on Sunday. BERLIN (Dispatches) -- Hof- The German record champions The 29-year-old Desisa, who took a silver at the 2013 worlds in Moscow fenheim have returned to win- and front-runners suffered their and finished seventh four years ago in Beijing, clocked two hours, 10 ning ways after Sargis Adamyan’s first home defeat since October minutes, 40 seconds to claim the title. brace flabbergasted Bayern Mu- 2018, as a double strike from Ad- His teammate Mosinet Geremew, the fastest entrant in the field with a nich to take all three points on the amyan was enough to secure Hof- career best time of 2:02:55, lagged four seconds behind to notch the silver road in the 7th round in Bundes- fenheim the second win of the sea- medal. Kenya’s Amos Kipruto finished third in 2:10:57. liga. son. “This is a great medal for me and for Ethiopia. It is the first for us for a long time. I am very happy to bring Ethiopia this title after so long. I did perfectly what my coaches told me and I won the race,” said Desisa, who Marquez Grabs 6th MotoGP World Title took the country’s second men’s marathon gold in the 36-year history of the biyearly tournament following Gezahegne Abera’s 2:12:42 victory in Edmonton, Canada in 2001. Newly crowned 10,000m champion Sifan Hassan was victorious in the Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia crosses the finish line during the Men’s 1,500m as the Dutch runner set a championships record time of three min- Marathon at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, utes and 51.95 seconds after her 10,000m victory a week ago. Qatar, Oct 5, 2019. Golovkin Survives Scare to Regain IBF Title NEW YORK (AFP) - Gennady trouble several times. Golovkin has reclaimed his IBF title, He recovered quickly from the defeating Sergiy Derevyanchenko knockdown but it didn’t help by a unanimous decision in a bruis- him in the scoring department ing middleweight fight at Madison in what was a surprisingly close Square Garden. fight. Marc Marquez (C), Fabio Quartararo (L) and Maverick Viñales pose for photos on the podium at the Thai Grand Prix of MotoGP in Buriram, Thailand, Oct. 6, 2019. Golovkin knocked One judge scored it 114-113 and Derevyanchenko down in the first the other two had it 115-112 for BANGKOK (Xinhua) -- Defend- who was fourth, can now no lon- ing champion Marc Marquez of ger catch Marquez in the rank- round and cut him over the eye in Golovkin. Spain lifted his sixth premier class ings. the second but had to dig deep to The 37-year-old Golovkin im- MotoGP world title on Sunday with The 26-year-old Spaniard has beat the stubborn Ukrainian, who proved to 40-1-1 as he regained the victory at the Thailand Grand Prix. won every elite championship made his opponent look all of his belt he first won in 2015. Marquez’s second consecutive since 2013 with the exception of 37 years. Golovkin defended the title with win in Buriram has given him the 2015. With the vacant middleweight wins against Dominic Wade, Kell title with four races remaining in His six titles puts him third on the the campaign after he edged out all-time list in the MotoGP/500cc title on the line, Derevyanchenko Brook and Daniel Jacobs and a Gennady Golovkin, left, exchanges blows with Sergiy Derevyanchenko en Fabio Quartararo over the final class behind Italian legends Gia- fought a brave fight, landing solid draw against Mexico’s Canelo Al- route to reclaiming the IBF middleweight title at Madison Square Garden lap. como Agostini (eight) and Valen- body shots and getting Golovkin in varez. The pursuing Andrea Dovizioso, tino Rossi (seven)..