Abolfazl Yaghoubi Jouybari claimed a silver medal at the WTF World Taekwondo Grand Prix Series 3 in Manchester, UK on Friday.

In the finals of the men’s -68kg, Yaghoubi - who had been fighting with wicked venom and accuracy all day, and who had earlier defeated taekwondo legend Servet Tazegul in an awesome golden-point match – took on Korea’s Dae-hoon Lee, who had previously dispatched teammate Hun Kim in the semifinal.

The fight ended 16-7 to the Korean, whose relaxed demolition of the Iranian showed why he was named the WTF’s “Male Player of the Year” in 2014.
In the male +80kg final, Dmitriy Shokin of Uzbekistan defeated Rafael Castillo of Cuba to win the gold medal.

Omid Amidi of Iran and Arman-Marshall Silla of Belarus had to be satisfied with bronzes, worldtaekwondofederation.net wrote.

A total of 237 athletes from 56 countries are competing at the Manchester Regional Arena for top honors in the Manchester Grand Prix event, which will continue until October 18.
The gold medal winners in each division will receive a prize money of $5,000, while the silver medalists $3,000 and the bronze medal winners $1,000 each.