Yesterday, IKF Asia representative and PIMAF president, Shihan Amir Mosadegh together with Iranian Martial Arts Federation, welcomed Grand Master Ernesto Hoost in Tehran and held a training session for Iranian female fighters.
Category Archives: News
Category Feed:
PIMAF welcomes Ernesto Hoost to Iran
February 4, 2009 – 5:12 pm
Iranian Sports community experienced a huge revolution yesterday, as the biggest and brightest martial arts superstar, Ernesto Hoost, visited Iran. He is called “Mister Perfect”, which all martial arts experts agree that it really suits his character.
Mr. Hoost had been invited to Iran by Iranian Martial Arts Federation through Dr. Abedi. He organized the whole [...]
PIMAF Presents: Full Contact Karate Championships
February 2, 2009 – 4:02 pm
PIMAF represented IKF last week for Full Contact Championships, held here in Tehran. This event was sponsored and supported by Queen Kian and Nokian Tyres. Fighters from 4 age groups gathered here and competed in various weights according to IKF standards.
Among more than 200 fighters from all over Iran, Tehran Team received 4 gold, 3 [...]
PIMAF Presents: World Kickboxing and Muay Thai Boxing Championships in Tehran
December 5, 2008 – 6:22 pm
Persian International Martial Arts Federation (PIMAF) is proud to announce the completion of World Kickboxing and Muay Thai Boxing Championships.
This event was held in the first week of December. Shirudi stadium in Tehran was the host of this glorious event and it was where some of the greatest champions of the world gathered to test [...]
Iranian Kyokushin karate team shines in Japan
November 30, 2008 – 6:10 pm
Iran’s Kyokushin karate team stood first in the international kyokushinkai karate competitions in Japan on Sunday.
Four Iranian Kyokushin karatekas including Hossein Parvari, Sajjad Heidari, Saeed Safari and Rouya Broumand participated in the contests.
The competitions were held in Tokyo from November 29-30.
Kyokushinkai is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 [...]
Iran’s Women Karate National team to attend Indian int’l competitions
November 26, 2008 – 6:06 pm
Iran’s Women Karate National team will leave for India Wednesday evening to attend international competitions in India.
The matches will be hosted by India’s Hyderabad’s city on coming Saturday and Sunday while 26 countries including Iran will participate in the competitions.
The Deputy Head of Iran’s Karate Federation for Women Eshrat Shah Mohammadi said 12 Iranian [...]
Iranian karate players shine in South Korea
September 28, 2008 – 12:58 pm
LONDON, September 28 (IranMania) - Iranian Karate players snatched 7 gold, one silver and 5 bronze medals in the International Karate Championships in South Korea, IRNA reported.
Iranian athletes including Farshid Karimi, Sina Karami, Milad Yari, Zabiollah Pourshib, Mahdi Soltani and Shima Shah-Zamani won the gold medals in the kumite contests.
Masoud Daneshjou bagged the silver, while [...]
Iran wins gold medal in Kazakh Karate Championship
September 9, 2008 – 12:58 pm
TEHRAN (IRNA) — Iranian athlete, Mahshid Jalilifar, in (60-kg category) snatched the gold medal in Kazakhstan International Karate Championships on Monday.
Jalili-Far defeated her Tajik rival in the second round and reached the final stage.
In the final stage, she beat her Russian rival and won the gold medal.
Sahar Karaj, in 48-kg category, and Pegah Chalaki, in [...]
Iran wins Junior Asian Karate title
August 29, 2008 – 1:15 pm
Iran has managed to snatch the title at the 9th Asian Karate Federation (AKF) Junior and Cadets Karate Championships held in Malaysia.
The Iranian Karate team won the title with three gold and three bronze medals on Friday.
Mohammad Qasemi won a gold medal for his country in the under 55kg category after defeating his Malaysian [...]
Iranian wushu artist wins gold
August 24, 2008 – 3:49 pm
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA)–Zahra Karimi of Iran snatched the gold medal in the Beijing 2008 Wushu Tournament on Sunday.
She defeated her Vietnamese rival in the final game and won the gold medal.
Hossein Ojaghi took silver while Farzaneh Dehghan earned bronze.
The Beijing 2008 wushu has gathered 128 athletes from 43 countries. The event kicked [...]