Gold for Georgievski, Vasilevski and Simonovski

This year’s tournament was attended by about 900 competitors from over 40 countries around the world, and was held in SC Jane Sandanski

Taekwondo-G1 tournament « Skopje Open 2025 »

Olympian Dejan Georgievski (category over 87kg) has won a gold medal in the senior competition of the G1 Open 2025 series Taekwondo Tournament, and this was achieved by Andrej Vasilevski and Hristijan Simonovski at the juniors. Georgievski beat Macedonian representative Gorjan Badarovski 2-0 in the semifinals, celebrating in the final over German Kerim Kujujunhur, also 2-0 after the rival handed over the fight in the second round. Badarovski was given the bronze medal.
Vasilevski (up to 59kg) of TC Butel in the first fight was better than Christian Petrov from Bulgaria, in the second of Elbogen Yuj of Israel, in the semifinal of Filip Karevski from Macedonia, and in the final celebrated over Viktor Setvic of Sweden. Simonovski (up to 63kg) of TC Mladost, in the first fight, defeated Emir Honic from BiH, in the semifinal Jordan Angelov, and in the final Stanislav Mitkov, both from Bulgaria. Bronze won Antonio Negrijovski (up to 45kg) from the Phoenix Kick Club.
Marko Mitevski from TC Tigers and Martina Naumovska (up to 55kg), from the Phoenix Kick club, won the cadets. The first medal, Bronze, won the junior Dusica Breslieva (up to 55kg) from TC Stip, which also competes in karate (she won bronze in karate and juniors in Poland).
Olympian Milana Reljic (up to 62kg), who won the gold in the previous two years, was not close to the medal. In the first round, Marija Karjanovic from Serbia 2-0 in rounds, and lost 4-5 and 4-4 in the fight for German Laura Goeber.
– I have to say that we went to the medal and I was sure we would win, but the exhaustion of the weight loss the day before. Small defocus cost us a victory, because in the second round Milana led 4-0, but 10 seconds before the end the opponent managed to win four points and to win a better result-Reljic and TC coach Aleksandar Eftimov told us.
This year’s tournament was attended by about 900 competitors from over 40 countries around the world, and was held in SC Jane Sandanski. G.