TEHRAN – Fatemeh Zahra Saeidabadi won a gold medal in the 2024 World Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships on Sunday.

Saeidabadi defeated Egyptian karateka Menatalah Elhawary 2-0 in the U21 Female Kumite 55kg final.

Slovakian Nina Kvasnicova and Thailand’s Chokprasertgul Sirikamonnate won the bronze medal in the weight class.

In the U21 Female Kumite -50kg, and Yalda Naghi Beiranvand of Iran won a bronze medal.

Japanese Mizuki Ishihara defeated Croatia’s Ema Sgardelli in the final to win the gold.

Bronze medal went to Naghi Beiranvand and Ukraine’s Valeriia Sergaieva.  

The 2024 World Cadet, Junior and U-21 Karate Championships, is a karate event is being held in Venice, Italy from 9 to 13 October 2024.

Nearly 2000 athletes from 113 countries have participated in the event.

The last edition of the event was held in 2022 in Konya (Turkey). Japan topped the medal table of the event with 13 medals including 10 golds. Hosts of Turkey and Egypt also registered successful performances with 12 medals each.