It was a golden opening night of the Championships in Chuncheon, South Korea for Parnian Noori and Aynaz Nasiri, who are the latest athletes hoping to make the most of the pathway to senior success provided by this event.
Iranian athletes Noori and Nasiri triumphed in the women’s -52kg and women’s -59kg categories respectively on the first day of competition.
“I had a very good feeling because I had very hard exercise in our national team, so I got a very good result. I was very happy and had a wonderful feeling about it,” she said.
“We had a very wonderful feeling about that, because on the first day we had two golds and our flag was at the top. We hope we can get more medals in our team,” Nasiri added.
Nasiri had to recover from losing the first round in both her quarter-final and semi-final, and explained how she masterminded her turnaround in the two matches as her determination to win shone through.
“In the first round I had some problems, but I fixed it for the second round. So when I got to the second round I had more energy, and all that mattered was I won, it doesn’t matter how you win,” she said.
Nasiri highlighted the benefits of competing in such an environment.
“This has been a very nice experience because we had different opponents from many countries. The organization was different from other competitions, with more than 900 athletes,” she said.