CISM is officially inaugurated.
Opening ceremony of the 22nd CISM World

Competitions officially started Saturday afternoon at 6 o'clock in Azadi stadium.

According to the Public Relations of the competitions headquarter, 22nd World Taekwando Competitions started Saturday morning in the field of women Taekwando contests in Taekwando House in Tehran.
At the end Iran's team won 4 gold, one silver and 3 bronze medals and became the champions. This event is hosted by the Ministry of Defense and logistics of I.R. of Iran in association with Iran's Taekwando Federation.

The opening ceremony officially commenced Saturday at 6 o'clock in the presence of brigadier general Nasrolah Ezati Head of the organizing body of the competitions and Mahmood Godarzi Minister of Sport and Youth, Mehrali Barancheshme head of the physical training of the military forces, Mohammad Poladgar head of Iran's Taekwando federation, Sahanses Mambi Director General of CISM, Yaqob Ashtar head of the Taekwando Committee.

In the beginning of the program and after the march of the teams, Mehrali Barancheshme head of the physical training of the military forces welcomed the audiences and read the message of General Firoozabadi, joint chief of staff of I?R? of Iran's army on the occasion of opening the 22nd CISM. Then Brigadier General Ezati coordinator of the Ministry of Defense and contests headquarter, and directory general of CISM and head of CISM Taekwando Committee talked about the goals of the competitions.

Then Sina Bahrami from Iran and Diego silva from Brazil read the swearing formula of the contestants and Mehdi Bahadori from Iran and Ahmad Feysal from Jordan read the swearing formula of the judges.
At the end Iran Taekwando team presented some performances and the ceremony finished with the performance of traditional Iranian wrestling.

Date:18:03   8/17/2014

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