Matea Jelić, Marko Golubić and Ivana Arelić with out a medal on the European Games

Croatian representatives in taekwondo Matea Jelić, Marko Golubić and Ivana Arelić they ran out of medals at the European Games in Krynica-Zdroj.

Just as all 3 of our representatives lost their semi-very last matches, the same befell once more within the fits for bronze.

The closest to a medal was the youngest and maximum inexperienced 20-12 months-vintage Ivana Arelić, a member of Orion from Sesvet, who literally misplaced the bronze medal to Latvia’s Jolanta Darvida on the final 2d with 1-2 inside the rounds. Arelić lost the primary round with 1-eight, within the 2d she made a marvelous turnaround from 2-five to six-five, and in the deciding game with 3-1 till the closing tenth. The Latvian equalized and gained the bronze because of the higher variety of factors.

In the semifinals, Arelić lost zero-2 inside the rounds to the Czech Petra Stalbova, the modern-day European runner-up. Before that, she knocked out the skilled German Anna Lena Froeming (2-0), the bronze medalist from the World Championship back in 2013, and the world runner-up from 2022, the Greek Theopola Sarvanaki (2-zero). For the 20-12 months-old Arelić, that is the second one large opposition after she made it to the third spherical at the WC in Baku this 12 months.

– I literally misplaced the medal in the closing seconds in a close combat and it turned into hard for me to just accept it. I changed into seconds faraway from victory and a medal. I ought to exit due to the fact I had the proper to go out again, but I didn’t do it within the closing seconds due to the fact I didn’t have control. However, via entering the semi-finals, I fulfilled it, I guess this will come lower back to me somewhere – stated Ivana, who went to the WC in Baku thru crowdfunding.

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The global champion from Baku, Marko Golubić, misplaced the bronze medal in a duel with the Spaniard Daniel Quesada, 0-4, 1-four. On his manner to the semi-finals, Golubić defeated the Swede Mohammed Chehade (2-zero) and the Turk Muhamed Yildiz (2-1).

– That’s proper, from time to time you’re up and every so often you’re down, you lose  fights for a medal. I am the equal Marko as I turned into at the start of June on the World Championship, but fatigue and accidents have accumulated. In the semi-very last I ran into my ‘black cat’ Husić from Bih, who has a weapon for me, and in the final the Spaniard turned into better. Nothing, the Grand Prix event awaits me in September and accumulating factors for Paris – said Golubić.

Current Olympic champion and former first-class Croatian athlete Matea Jelić misplaced to Italian Natalie D’Angelo 1-2 within the rounds. Jelić won the first spherical eight-3, however lost the second one two with 2-4 and 7-8.

Kninjanka did not want to stand in the front of the reporters.

In the category up to 80 kg, Matej Nikolić misplaced inside the first round to Kasdo Mehdipourejad, the consultant of the refugee countrywide team.

Croatian taekwondo has two gold, silver and bronze medals at the Games up to now.