Nepali Taekwondo journey ends with participation
Despite the fact that Taekwondo is claimed to be Nepal's most successful sport, no medals have been won.
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s voyage in the Taekwondo game, which has the most medal expectations, has come to an end at the 19th Asian Games (ASIAD).
Despite the fact that Taekwondo is claimed to be Nepal’s most successful sport, no medals have been won.
Jackie Yadav of Nepal was defeated 2-0 by Anas Sadek of Jordan in the 80 kg weight class on Thursday morning at the Lin’an Sports Culture and Exhibition Center.
With Yadav’s defeat, Nepal now has 11 Taekwondo players without medals in the upcoming Hangzhou Asiad. Nepali Taekwondo, although has a long history at Asiad, has gone without a medal in the last four tournaments.
Nepal has won 15 medals in Taekwando out of the 24 medals it has earned at Asiad. There are 14 bronzes and one silver. In 1998, Savita Rajbhandari earned Nepal’s first silver medal in Taekwondo at the Asiad in Thailand.
Deepak Bista, Manita Shahi, and Ayesha Shakya won bronze in Taekwondo for Nepal at the 2006 Doha Asiad.
Olympian Taekwondo player Deepak Bisht says that the day-to-day results in Taekwondo are not related to the game. ‘Compared to other countries, Nepal’s players are seen as weak. We have only gone on the path of playing games. We did not go the way to get medals.
Due to the lack of protection, good players have migrated abroad. There is more controversy in Taekwondo. It is necessary to side with those who dispute,’ said Bista.
Abhishek Baral’s journey stopped in the last 32 in the men’s under 80 kg category among other taekwondo players in the Hangzhou Asiad. Bir Bahadur Mahara, who was hoping for a medal in men’s under 68 kg, lost 2-0 to Yi Juyi Chiu of Chinese Taipei. Women’s Under 67kg Indra Basnet lost 2-0 to Iranian Vakili Malika Mirhoseni.
Govind Bahadur Ale Men’s Under 63 kg won the last 32 matches but was defeated in the last 16. Nepal’s Ayesha Lama lost 2-0 to South Korea’s Haejin Park in the women’s under 53kg round of 16 match. Sandhya Kumari Singh’s journey in women’s under 57 kg stopped in the last 16.
Anjali Tamang of Nepal in the women’s under 49 kg category defeated Lyden Kri of Cambodia in the first round but lost to Panipak Wongpatankit of Thailand in the pre-quarterfinals.
Rahul Kumal of Nepal lost to Saudi Arabia’s Nasir Ahmadi Riyad in the first round in men’s under 58 kg category.
The journey of Prem Bahadur Limbu and Swastika Tamang in men’s single pumice was also stopped in the first stage.
