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The 2018 Asian Continental Championship is a 9-round Swiss tournament which will be underway until December 18.Iranian squad received 2 victories.Parham Maghsudlou defeated Vietnamese and Alireza Firouzjah tied with Vietnam. Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei overpowered Philippines.Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the …

Speaking with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Head of O-Sport association Behrouz Karkhanei said that 1,300 athletes will participate in the event.The competitions is aimed at promoting O-Sport, tourism and developing Iran's economy, he added.O-Sport stands for Original Persian Sports and this nickname has been founded and presented to …

The FutsalPlanet website on Sunday released the list of the best players nominees in the world.The experts jury, featuring futsal people will come from all around the world today, and will be asked to take part in the voting process. This second step will end on December 30th, FutsalPlanet reported.Iranian …

“The festival wants to convey the message of peace and friendship to the world through sports while Iran is under unilateral sanctions of the United States,' said Reza Abdi, director of Association of Public Sport of Iranian foreign ministry.The Olympiad will be hosted as January 18 will kick off with …

Kerman from Iran and Singapore ranked second and third respectively.In industrial robots category, Qazvin Azad University, Kerman University and Singapore ranked first to third respectively.In home robot section, Malaysia ranked first. After defeating Japanese team in RoboCup Soccer, Qazvin ranked first.In small size robots category, Tehran University team stood on …

The Iranian legend is the tournament’s record goal scorer, having found the back of the net 14 times over three editions, yet the former striker never lifted the trophy for his country, whose wait for the title stretches back to 1976.But on the back of a strong 2018 FIFA World …

Mahdizadeh defeated Serbian, Thai and Iranian karate fighters and received a bronze medal.In -84 kg, Zabihollah Pour Shib hit Kazakh rival and received a gold medal.Miaad Yari in the weight category of -60 kg also bagged a gold medal.Amir Mahdizadeh in the weight category of -67 kg earned a bronze …

Davoud Rafati, Head of the Referee Committee of Iran Football Federatio, said Ballan and his delegation's trip is aimed at assessing the committee's activities and developing arbitration. Iranian female referees will be able to judge 2019 AFC Cup, he said.The 2019 AFC Asian Cup will be the 17th edition of …

Mohammad Nazemasharieh and Shahrzad Mozaffar have been nominated for the 19th edition of the award, granted by FutsalPlant website. Iran’s Mes Sungun, the title winner of 2018 AFC Futsal Club Championship, was nominated for the best club of the year. Earlier, other Iranians had been nominated by the website including …

'Athletes from Iran, India Armenia, Russia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Georgia are participating in the contests,' said the head of Karate board in the province.Saying that all styles of karate can participate in the competitions, he added that the event will be held in men's and women's parts on December …