MI: Bronze for Georgievski, he did not perform in the semi-finals due to a stomach virus

photo: Macedonian Olympic Committee

Dejan Georgievski ended the performance of Mediterranean Games in Oran (Algeria) with a bronze medal, although he had ambitions to attack for the gold medal.

The Macedonian taekwondo player after the victory in the quarter-finals over the Egyptian Ahmad Mohamed, in the semi-finals he was supposed to fight against Ayoub Bassel from Morocco.

Today, our competitor had extremely severe dehydration due to a highly intense stomach virus and therefore did not perform in the semi-final fight. For the sake of our Olympic icon, the team decided to cancel today's campaign.

In this category, the Italian Roberto Botta also won a bronze medal, and in the final, the Croatian Ivan Shapina defeated Basel with 35:25.

This is the third MI medal for our country, the previous two were from wrestling, "bronze" was also awarded to Vladimir Egorov, and Magomedgadzhi Nurov won gold.

On Monday (July 4), the rest of the Macedonian taekwondo players will perform in the category up to 67 kg. in the round of XNUMX, Anamaria Georgievska will fight against Zorana Sandić from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Then, in the category up to 58 kg. in the round of 80, Marko Avramoski has the Moroccan Youssef Boatris as his rival, and Filip Dodevski will start from the round of XNUMX in the category up to XNUMX kg. in which he will compete with Huseyin Kartal from Turkey.

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