In Tehran, Amirmohammad Haghighatshenas won and secured a gold medal in the para-Taekwondo discipline at the 2026 Asian Para Games, defeating a representative of the host country in the final.
Haghighatshenas wins gold in Para Taekwondo
On Tuesday at the competitions in Aichi-Nagoya 2026, the Iranian athlete Haghighatshenas reached the final of the men's weight division K44 up to 70 kg, where he faced Japanese Shunsuke Kudo. The athlete from Iran won both rounds of the match with scores of 14–2 and 18–12, which allowed him to take first place.
Before reaching the final, Haghighatshenas successfully overcame obstacles in previous stages of the tournament. He defeated Din Muhammad Askar from Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals, and then beat his opponent from Uzbekistan in the semifinals before meeting Kudo in the final bout.
Thanks to this victory, the Iranian para-Taekwondo team concluded the second day of the competition by winning five awards. In addition to Haghighatshenas's gold medal, Zahra Rahimi received silver, and Parimah Tourani, Said Sadeghianpour, and Maryam Abdollahpour each won a bronze medal.