TEHRAN, Nov. 14 (MNA) – Member of Iran Women’s U21 karate team Zohreh Barzegar downed all her rivals to advance to the finals of the 9th WKF Junior & Cadet and U21 Championships in Indonesia.

On the third day of 2015 World Karate Championship hosted by Indonesia, three Under 21 female karatekas appeared on tatami where the representative in the -55kg weight category managed to reach finals by pulling off victories against her rivals.

Zohre Barzegar had to face and defeat 4 fighters from Chile, China, Venezuela and Hungary in order to get to the finals of the tournament where she will fight against the Vietnamese karateka to snatch the gold medal.

However, Zhore Tarazpour in -50kg and Mahtab Esmaeili -61kg failed to bag medals even though they had won the fights in the first round of the World Championship.

So far, Iran has bagged 1 silver and 4 bronze medals at the tournament.

The championship is hosting 1441 athletes from 91 countries in Jakarta, Indonesia and will last till November 15.