2023-09-28 06:58:00
Taekwondo player Lee Meng-en (in blue). (File photo, taken by reporter Chen Zhiqu)
[Reporter Wu Mengru/Comprehensive Report]Taiwanese player Li Meng’en lost to the World Championships bronze medalist and Iranian player SALIMI Arian 0:2 in the semi-finals of the men’s 80kg and above Taekwondo competition at the Hangzhou Asian Games today. He missed the chance to advance to the finals, but still won the championship. Next bronze medal.
The 190cm tall Li Meng-en joined the basketball team in elementary school and later switched to Taekwondo. He won the gold medal at the 2015 Taipei Asian Youth Taekwondo Championships, and won the silver medal at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires three years later. He also won the Asian Games selection in last year. Unselected, this year only ushered in the Asian Games for the first time in his career.
Li Mengen defeated Lebanon’s RAHI Ray 2:0 in the round of 16, defeated the last Asian Games gold medalist and top seed RAFALOVICH Nikita of Uzbekistan 2:1 in the top 8, and successfully advanced to the top four.
The strength of Li Mengen’s top four opponents should not be underestimated. The 198-cm-length 19-year-old Iranian player Arian won the bronze medal at this year’s World Championships and the silver medal at the Chengdu Universiade. He won the first two levels in straight games.
In the first round, Arrian’s offensive was fierce, and Li Mengen also performed well in the mid-range attack. Unfortunately, his last attempt to use a turning attack to grab points failed, and he finally gave up at 10:14. In the second round, Li Mengen succeeded with a mid-range and top-range attack, and once took the lead at 5:3. In the last 20 seconds, he hit a mid-range spin kick to catch up to 9:12, but was finally succeeded by Arian’s reverse spin kick. , finally lost 13:16, stopped in the top four, and won a bronze medal.
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