Daegu 2024 World University Taekwondo Festival fires up
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The FISU-endorsed Daegu 2024 World University Taekwondo Festival kicked off on 5 July with an opening ceremony and the first day of combat.
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The FISU-endorsed Daegu 2024 World University Taekwondo Festival kicked off on 5 July with an opening ceremony and the first day of combat.
World Taekwondo (WT) President Chungwon Choue awarded the International University Sports Federation (FISU) President Leonz Eder an honorary 8th Dan certificate in recognition of his unwavering support for Taekwondo in university sports.
China claimed the mixed gender honours on day three of the World Taekwondo World Cup Team Championships Series in Chuncheon, Korea.
Iran have completed a successful defence of the male title on the first day and claimed female title on the second day of the World Taekwondo World Cup Team Championships Series in Chuncheon, Korea.
Taekwondo athlete Kasra Mehdipournejad was among the Refugee Olympic Team named for Paris 2024 in May.
Taekwondo stars Jade Jones, Rebecca McGowan, Bradley Sinden and Cade Cunningham were named as Team Great Britain members for Paris 2024 Olympics. All four had secured Great Britain's place at the Olympic Games through their high rankings.
With the Olympic Games only weeks away, Australia's Taekwondo athletes are in the final stages of preparations before heading to Paris.
From 24-25 July, Queretaro, Mexico, will host the first coaches' seminar organized by the Pan American Taekwondo Union (PATU). The main objective of this event is to educate, update and certify coaches who will participate in the qualifying events for the Junior Pan American Games, scheduled for next year in Asuncion, Paraguay.
Chuncheon, Korea, will host a trio of World Taekwondo events from 1-5 July, featuring around 200 athletes from 40 countries including Refugee Team and Individual Neutral Athletes.
World Taekwondo maintained its excellence in the Fifth ASOIF Governance Review with an A2 ranking in three consecutive editions, and ranked 12th out of 32 International Sports Federations (IFs) in the Olympic Programme.
The president of the Games and Technical Committees at the World Taekwondo (WT) Mohamed Shaaban will make history at Paris 2024 Olympics as the first Arab and African to serve as a technical delegate in taekwondo, reports Abeer Anwar.
Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) president Tan Sri Mohamad Norza Zakaria wants Taekwondo Malaysia (TM) to end a drought of almost two decades without a representative at the Olympic Games at the Los Angeles 2028, The Sun Malaysia reports.
With head coach Lee Chang-geon in charge, Korea will send four athletes to the taekwondo competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics: Park Tae-joon in the men's 58 kilograms, Seo Geon-woo in the men's 80kg, Kim Yu-jin in the women's 57kg and Lee Da-bin in the women's +67kg.
After the disappointment of not qualifying for the Rio 2016 Olympics, Jordanian taekwondo athlete Julyana Al-Sadeq has gone on to reach incredible heights – thanks in no small part to the support of Olympic Solidarity, the IOC official website reports.
Saudi taekwondo standout Donia Abu Taleb had an unusual introduction to the sport: for years she trained at a boys' club because there were no girls to compete with.