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:
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
I ll be there!
I ll be there!
I ll be there!