The turn for Taekwondo in this great Martial Arts festival will be next Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 in TK -5 system.

The Games will feature 15 martial arts and combat sports : Aikido, Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Jiu – Jitsu, Karate, Kendo, Kickboxing, Muaythai, Sambo, Savate, Sumo, Taekwondo, Wrestling and Wushu .

Representing our sport there will be teams from  China, Croatia, France, Russia, Iran, South Korea, Spai, United States, Uzbekistan, Dominican Republic and Venezuela (four female teams and eight male teams).

Additional to the Games themselves, there will be a cultural program in which ancient traditions of martial arts, and social and cultural values will be presented. The topics will focus on the cultural dimensions of the martial arts and its social value and contribution to society.

According to the communication masTaekwondo.com had with the World Taekwondo Federation, they informed that WTF President Dr. Chungwon Choue and WTF Secretary General Jean Marie Ayer are already in St. Petersburg.

In TK -5 each team is formed by five competitors, a substitute, a coach and a physical trainer.  TK-5 is a system in which the team which scores more points in two rounds is the winner.

The system is two rounds of five minutes and a minute of rest. During the first five minutes, each athlete must take action for one minute. After a minute of rest and during the subsequent round it begins an unlimited relay competition where coaches, according to their strategies, decide who enters and who leaves the combat. The only condition for the relay, is that the athlete must have made at least three attacks.

The weight parameter should be as follows:

Male:   Total weight of 6 athletes (5 + 1 substitute) 432 kg or less.  If the team does not have a substitute, the total weight of 5 athletes should be 360 kg or less.

Female:  Total weight of 6 athletes (5 + 1 substitute) should be 366 kg or less. If the team does not have a substitute, the total weight of 5 athletes should be 305 kg or less.

 

List of Teams and Athletes:

 

FEMALE TEAMS

 

China – CHN

Jingyu Wu

Yun Wang

Yuzhuo Hou

Yunfei Guo

Hua Zhang

Chen Li

 

Croatia – CRO

Marija Stetic

Petra Matijasevic

Marina Sumic

Tanja Rastovic

Ana Vranesic

Josipa Matic

 

France – FRA

Maeva Mellier

Floriane Liborio

Estelle Vander-Zwalm

Magda Wiet Henin

Haby Niare

Aline Dossou-Gbete

 

Russia – RUS

Daria Zhuravleva

Kristina Khafizova

Anastasia Skipina

Ekaterina Mitrofanova

Anastasiia Baryshnikova

Alexandra Lychagina

 

MALE TEAMS

 

Dominican Republic – DOM

Gabriel Mercedes

Ruddy Mateo

Eric Guzman

Wilkin Heredia

Moises Hernandez

Derlin Reyes

 

Iran – IRI

Masoud Hajizavareh

Alireza Nassrazadany

Behnam Asbaghikhanghah

Kourosh Rajoly

Farzad Abdollahi

Mohammad Kazemifoushazdeh

 

 

South Korea – KOR

Jae Hyeon Shin

Yong Min Han

Sung Hyun Park

Chang Min Lee

Min Joo Jeong

Chan Joo Kim

 

Russia – RUS

Anton Kotkov

Alexey Denisenko

Konstantin Minin

Vasilii Nikitin

Aydemir Shakhbanov

Vladimir Kim

 

SPAIN – SPA

Raul Martinez Garcia

Daniel Quesada Barrera

Jose Antonio Rosillo Atencia

Daniel Ros Gomez

Manuel Beloqui Jimenez

Raúl Bouzas Somoza

 

United States of America – USA

James Albert Howe

Nir Moriah

Steven T Lin

Timothy Curry

Steven Lopez

Phillip Jae Duk Yun

 

Uzbekistan – UZB

Jasur Baykuziev

Nikita Rafalovich

Vladislav Khan

Sultonbek Charshanbaev

Abubakir Rasulov

Sarvarbek Sheraliev

 

Venezuela – VEN

Ilvert Villasmil

Luis Arellano

Nerbel Maiz

Javier Guerrero

Jesus Sanchez

Mario Leal

 

 

Laura López Rodríguez, Exclusive masTaekwondo.com

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