Victory is the way to Olympics

World Taekwondo Federation European Qualification Tournament will be held in Kazan on January 27-29, 2012. The winners of this tournament will continue competing in London Olympics this summer. More than 200 of finest taekwondo sportsmen will take part in the tournament.

Come and support our sportsmen! Don’t miss the biggest event of 2012 winter! See the beauty of martial arts with your own eyes!

According to Tatarstan Taekwondo Federation about 3 thousand people take taekwondo lessons in RT. It is especially popular in Naberezhnye Chelny, Kazan and Nizhnekamsk.

Each country has a right to be represented by 4 sportsmen in Olympic Games. That is 2 women and 2 men. Qualification Tournament consists of two tours: the World Tournament and Continental Tournament.

World Qualification Tournament was held in Baku between June 30 and July 3, 2011. Russian taekwondo sportsmen were pretty successful there. They won two Olympic licenses. One of them was taken by the champion of Europe and double bronze winner of the world championship Anastasiya Baryshnikova. She became third in the category more than 67 kg. And the second medal was conquered by Gaji Umarov. He became second in the category more than 80 kg. In the final he was defeated by Don Min Cha from South Korea.

Thus Russian taekwondo sportsmen have already won the half of the possible quota. They have European Qualification Tournament which will be held in their home country – in the city of Kazan – to gain two more medals.

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