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Introduction: WT President
Dear World Taekwondo Family,
This year we commemorate the 50th Founding Anniversary of the World Taekwondo. Since its humble beginnings with 35 representatives from 17 founding Member National Associations at the inaugural General Assembly, the World Taekwondo has blossomed into the fourth largest international federation in the Olympic and Paralympic movements, with a global membership of 213 MNAs from 2023.
Indeed, Taekwondo’s outreach is phenomenal with a global representation of 53 MNAs in Africa, 44 in Asia, 52 in Europe, 19 in Oceania, and 45 in Pan America within half a century. The representation extends to the podium, with more than 100 MNAs having won medals at the World Taekwondo-promoted championships. When the medals won by MNAs at the continental and open championships are factored in, we can truly appreciate Taekwondo as a global phenomenon.
I wish to thank each and every one of you – the Taekwondo masters, the athletes, the coaches, the technical officials, the administrators, and the volunteers – for your contributions to the development of Taekwondo worldwide. Thank you for always having Taekwondo in your hearts and using it as a medium to promote peace to the world.
Taekwondo inspires and fosters partnerships for the underprivileged, through the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation and its Hope and Dreams projects, as well as the World Taekwondo Development Programme and its Taekwondo Cares projects. We strive to develop global citizens who, through their experiences, can make the world a better place.
I am delighted to inform you that Taekwondo currently has the second largest number of refugee athletes to date for the IOC Olympic Scholarship Programme for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Taekwondo gives hope and dreams to these athletes and I wish them all the best in their journey to Paris.
In addition for the first time ever, Virtual Taekwondo will be featured in the inaugural Olympic Esports Weeks to be held in Singapore on June 22-25, 2023, making Taekwondo the first and only combat sport to be included in the programme. This is an outstanding achievement for the World Taekwondo’s ambitions to have Virtual Taekwondo included as an official medal sport in future Olympic Games.
Last but certainly not least, the World Taekwondo will celebrate its Golden Jubilee at a special Gala on the occasion of the World Taekwondo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, in May 2023. It has been a historic 50 years of progress, and we will strive even harder for sustained excellence towards World Taekwondo’s Centenary.
In this regard, wish to once again express my gratitude to each and every one of your, the World Taekwondo family, for your continued support of Taekwondo around the world. Thank you for always having Peace in Mind, Taekwondo at Heart.
Sincerely yours,
Chungwon Choue President, World Taekwondo
Foreword: IOC President
Dear President of World Taekwondo, My Dear Friend Dr. Choue,
Dear Olympic Friends,
It is my great pleasure to congratulate World Taekwondo on your 50th anniversary. As you celebrate this milestone, you can look back at 50 years of great progress.
Starting with 17 member associations 50 years ago, you made your Olympic debut at Olympic Games Sydney 2000. Since then, you have not stopped growing and developing your sport. In this context I would like to in particular highlight the outstanding achievements having been accomplished under the great leadership of your President Choue.
He has made Taekwondo one of the fastest – if not the fastest – growing sport in the world which is now a truly global sport. As your 213 member associations today underline in an impressive way, Taekwondo now enjoys worldwide appeal. In this way, you are bringing together people all over the world in peaceful competition – and thereby promoting our shared Olympic values.
This is why I would like to thank everybody at World Taekwondo.
From promoting gender equality, to strengthening athlete representation, to advancing sustainability and climate action, or trailblazing in the digital world – at World Taekwondo, you are promoting sport and its values in an outstanding way. Your exemplary and pioneering work to support refugees around the world is a perfect illustration of the power of sport as a force for good in the world.
In fact, World Taekwondo was a partner from the very beginning when the IOC created the first-ever IOC Refugee Olympic Team for the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Especially through the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation, you are addressing not only refugee athletes, but the refugee community at large – using Taekwondo to empower refugees and to bring hope to one of the most vulnerable groups in society today. This really is the Olympic spirit in action and for this
I would like to thank you and congratulate you from the bottom of my heart.
Today, World Taekwondo and the IOC enjoy a strong partnership. Together, we are working towards the realisation of Olympic Agenda 2020+5, with a strong focus on how sport can contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Building on the strong foundation that you have at World Taekwondo, you can look to the future with great confidence – on the road to the Olympic Games Paris 2024 and beyond.
Because as your athletes have shown us: we can only go faster, aim higher, become stronger, if we stand together – in solidarity.
Our partnership is the perfect illustration of this, our new Olympic motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together. In this Olympic spirit, I wish World Taekwondo all the very best for the next 50 years – and beyond.
Thomas Bach President, International Olympic Committee Video Message
TABLE
CONTENTS COMPETITIONS Taekwondo at the Olympic Games Taekwondo at the Paralympic Games Taekwondo at the Youth Olympic Games World Taekwondo Championships World Para Taekwondo Championships World Taekwondo Grand Prix World Para Taekwondo Grand Prix World Taekwondo Grand Slam World Taekwondo World Cup Team Championships World Taekwondo Junior Championships World Taekwondo Cadet Championships World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships World Taekwondo Beach Championships World Taekwondo Online Poomsae Championships OLYMPIC GAMES 120 144 154 10 30 36 54 60 66 76 86 94 106 114 World Taekwondo Women’s Open Championships World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge OTHER COMPETITIONS 166 168
OF
WORLD TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS
WORLD TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS
1973 May 25-27 Seoul, Korea 1987 Oct. 7-11 Barcelona, Spain 1975 Aug. 28-31 Seoul, Korea 1989 Oct. 9-14 Seoul, Korea 1977 Sept. 15-17 Chicago, USA 1991 Oct. 23-Nov.3 Athens, Greece 1979 Oct. 26-28 Stuttgart, Germany 1993 Aug. 19-21 New York, USA 1982 Feb. 24-27 Guayaquil, Ecuador 1995 Nov. 17-21 Manila, Philippines 1983 Oct. 20-23 Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 Nov. 19-23 Hong Kong, China 1985 Sept. 4-8 Seoul, Korea 1999 June 2-6 Edmonton, Canada 2001 2009 Nov. 1-7 Oct. 14-18 Jeju, Korea 2003 Sept. 24-28 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 2005 April 13-17 Madrid, Spain 2007 May 18-22 Beijing, China Copenhagen, Denmark 2011 May 1-6 Gyeongju, Korea 2013 July 15-21 Puebla, Mexico 2017 June 24-30 Muju, Korea 2019 May 15-19 Manchester, UK 2022 Nov. 13-20 Guadalajara, Mexico 2023 May 29-June 4 Baku, Azerbaijan 2015 May 12-18 Chelyabinsk, Russia
POSTERS 19732023 12 World Taekwondo Championships 13
World Taekwondo Championships 1973
World Taekwondo Championships 14 15
2023
3rd World Championships were held in Chicago, USA First gold medalist from non-Korean (Chinese Taipei). 46 nations participated.
1970 s
The inaugural World Taekwondo Championships were held on May 25-27, 1973 at Kukkiwon with participation of 19 nations.
World Taekwondo Championships 1973
The 1st Women’s World Taekwondo Championships were held with participation of 142 female athletes. A composite point system was first applied. 57 nations participated
IOC flag was displayed during the opening ceremony in 1985 to publicize the fact that Taekwondo was to be a demonstration sport of 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. The electronic scoreboard was used for the first time. 63 nations participated.
World Taekwondo Championships 16 17
2023
Scene from the 6th World Taekwondo Championships, held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1980 s
World Taekwondo Championships 18 19
1973 2023 1990 s
World Taekwondo Championships
World Taekwondo Championships 20 21
2023 2000 s
World Taekwondo Championships 1973
World Taekwondo Championships 1973
World Taekwondo Championships 22 23
2023 2010 s
2017 Muju World Taekwondo Championships marked the biggest World Championships with participation of 183 nations.
World Taekwondo Championships 24 25
1973 2023 2020 s
World Taekwondo Championships
World Taekwondo Championships 26 27
1973 2023 2020 s
World Taekwondo Championships
World Taekwondo Championships 28 29
1973 2023 2020 s
World Taekwondo Championships
WORLD PARA CHAMPIONSHIPS TAEKWONDO
2009 1st June 10, 2009 Azerbaijan BAKU 2009 2010 2nd May 11, 2010 Russia ST. PETERSBURG 2010 2012 3rd Nov. 22, 2012 Aruba SANTA CRUZ 2012 2013 4 th June 8, 2013 Switzerland LAUSANNE 2013 2014 5th June 21-22, 2014 Russia MOSCOW 2014 2015 6 th Sept. 17, 2015 Türkiye SAMSUN 2015 2017 7th Oct. 19, 2017 UK LONDON 2017 2019 8 th Feb. 5-6, 2019 Türkiye ANTALYA 2019 2021 9th Dec. 11-12, 2021 Türkiye ISTANBUL 2021 Timeline
32 33
2010S
World Para Taekwondo Championships
34 35 2020S
World Para Taekwondo Championships
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX
July 4-6, 2014 Dec. 13-15, 2013 Aug. 4-6, 2017 Aug. 29-31, 2014 Suzhou, China Manchester, UK Moscow, Russia Astana Dec. 9-10, 2016 Baku, Azerbaijan 2016 2014 2013 2017 June 7-9, 2019 Sept. 13-15, 2019 Rome, Italy Chiba 2019 37 36 FINAL FINAL
TIMELINE
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 39 38 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 41 40 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 43 42 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 45 44 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 47 46 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 49 48 2020s
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 51 50 2020s
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 53 52 2020s
WORLD PARA TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX
WORLD PARA TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 57 56 2020s
WORLD PARA TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX 59 58 2020s
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND SLAM
Wuxi 2017 Dec. 30, 2017-Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018 China Wuxi 2022 April 2-3, 2023 China Wuxi 2019 Dec.18-20, 2019 China Wuxi 2018 Dec.12-16, 2018 China
61 60
63 62 GRAND SLAM 2010s
65 64
SLAM 2020s
GRAND
1990 1991 Nov. 9-11, 1990 May 16-18, 1991 Madrid, Spain Zagreb, Yugoslavia 2014 2015 Dec. 6-7, 2014 Dec. 8-9, 2015 Querétaro, Mexico Mexico City, Mexico 2016 Dec. 12-13, 2016 Baku, Azerbaijan 2017 2018 Dec. 5-6, 2017 Nov. 24-25, 2018 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Fujairah, UAE 2001 2002 May 31-June 3, 2001 July 16-19, 2002 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tokyo, Japan 1994 1996 1997 1998 2000 July 21-23, 1994 May 24-26, 1996 March 6-8, 1997 June 5-7, 1998 April 14-16, 2000 George Town, Cayman Islands Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cairo, Egypt Sindelfingen, Germany Lyon, France 2019 Aug. 23-25, 2019 Wuxi, China 2012 Nov. 23-25, 2012 Santa Cruz, Aruba 2013 Nov. 28-30, 2013 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire 1987 May 15-17, 1987 Helsinki, Finland 1989 Feb. 22-25, 1989 Cairo, Egypt 1986 July 3-5, 1986 Colorado Springs, USA 2006 Sept. 14-18, 2006 Bangkok, Thailand 2010 July 17-20, 2010 Ürümqi, China 2009 June 11-14, 2009 Baku, Azerbaijan 2018 July 27-29, 2018 Wuxi, China
68 69 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO WORLD CUP TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
70 71 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO WORLD CUP TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
72 73 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO WORLD CUP TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
74 75 2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO WORLD CUP TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
WORLD TAEKWONDO JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS TIMELINE
Barcelona 1996
Spain
Ho Chi Minh 2006
Vietnam
July 26-30, 2006
Burnaby 2016 Canada
Nov. 16-20, 2016
Istanbul 1998
Türkiye
Sept. 9-13, 1998
Izmir 2008
May 7-11, 2008
Hammamet 2018
Türkiye Tunisia
April 9-13, 2018
Killarney 2000
Ireland
Nov. 15-18, 2000
Tijuana 2010
Heraklion 2002
Greece
Oct. 1-6 , 2002
Suncheon 2004
June 12-18, 2004
Sharm el-Sheikh 2012
Egypt
March 6-9, 2010
Sofia 2022
Mexico Bulgaria
Aug. 2-7, 2022
April 4-8, 2012
Taipei 2014
Korea Chinese Taipei
March 23-26, 2014
1st World Taekwondo Junior Championships poster
78 79 2010s
World Taekwondo Junior Championships 80 81
World
Junior
82 83 2020s
Taekwondo
Championships
World
Junior
85 2020s
Taekwondo
Championships
Baku 2014 Sharm el-Sheikh 2017 Muju 2015 Tashkent 2019 Sofia 2022 Sarajevo 2023 July 24-27, 2014 Aug. 24-27, 2017 Aug. 23-26, 2015 Aug. 7-10, 2019 July 28-31, 2022 Aug. 28-31, 2023 Azerbaijan Egypt Korea Uzbekistan Bulgaria Bosnia and Herzegovina WORLD TAEKWONDO CADET CHAMPIONSHIPS
2010s
88 89
World Taekwondo Cadet Championships
2020s
90 91
World Taekwondo Cadet Championships
2020s
92 93
World Taekwondo Cadet Championships
WORLD TAEKWONDO POOMSAE
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Incheon 2007
Seoul 2006 Ankara 2008
Cairo 2009 Tashkent 2010
Vladivostok 2011 Bali 2013 Tunja 2012
Aguascalientes 2014
Nov. 4-6, 2007
Sept. 4-6, 2006 Dec.16-18, 2008
Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2009 Oct. 8-10, 2010
July 29-31, 2011
Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2013 Dec. 6-9, 2012 Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2014
Lima 2016
Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2016
Korea Peru
Taipei 2018
Nov. 15-18, 2018
Korea Türkiye Chinese Taipei
Goyang 2022
Egypt Uzbekistan
Hong Kong 2024
April 21-24, 2022 TBD Korea China
Russia Indonesia Colombia Mexico
95 94 WORLD TAEKWONDO
POOMSAE CHAMPIONSHIPS
WORLD TAEKWONDO POOMSAE CHAMPIONSHIPS
97 96
2000s
WORLD TAEKWONDO POOMSAE CHAMPIONSHIPS
99 98
2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO POOMSAE CHAMPIONSHIPS
101 100
2020s
WORLD TAEKWONDO POOMSAE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2020s
103 102
WORLD TAEKWONDO POOMSAE CHAMPIONSHIPS
105 104
2020s
WORLD TAEKWONDO BEACH CHAMPIONSHIPS WORLD TAEKWONDO BEACH CHAMPIONSHIPS
Rhodes Island 2017 Rhodes Island 2018 Sahl Hasheesh 2019 May 5-6, 2017 April 25-28, 2018 Oct. 11-13, 2019 Greece Greece Egypt 107 106
2010s
WORLD TAEKWONDO BEACH CHAMPIONSHIPS 108 109
110 111 WORLD TAEKWONDO
BEACH CHAMPIONSHIPS
112 113 WORLD TAEKWONDO BEACH
CHAMPIONSHIPS
WORLD TAEKWONDO ONLINE POOMSAE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Online 2020 Online 2021 Muju Online 2022 Nov. 15–Dec. 23, 2020 Dec. 1–23, 2021 Sept. 30–Oct.15, 2022
2020s 116 117
OLYMPIC GAMES
Sept.27-30, 2000 | Sydney, Australia Aug. 20-23, 2008 | Beijing, China Aug. 26-29, 2004 Athens, Greece Beijing 2008 Athens 2004 London 2012 Tokyo 2020 Rio 2016
Aug. 17-20, 2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Aug. 8-11, 2012 | London, UK July 24-27, 2021 Tokyo, Japan Sydney 2000
TAEKWONDO AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
122 123 Sydney 2000 Athens 2004
124 125
Beijing 2008
Beijing 2008
London 2012
130 131 London 2012
132 133 Rio 2016
134 135 Rio 2016
136 137 Rio 2016
138 139
Tokyo 2020
141 Tokyo 2020
142 143 Tokyo 2020
PARALYMPIC GAMES
144 145
TAEKWONDO at the
Tokyo 2020 1st
Sept. 2-4, 2021
Tokyo 2020 147
2020s
149 Tokyo 2020
2020s
151 Tokyo 2020
2020s
152 153 Tokyo 2020
2020s
at the Singapore 2010 Nanjing 2014 Buenos Aires 2018 1st 2nd 3rd
OLYMPIC GAMES Aug. 17-19, 2010 Aug. 17-21, 2014 Oct. 7-11, 2018
TAEKWONDO
YOUTH
156 157 2010s Singapore 2010
158 159 2010s Nanjing 2014
160 161 Buenos Aires 2018
2010s
162 163 2010s Buenos Aires 2018
World
World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge
Taekwondowon 2022
2021
10-12, 2022
25-27, 2021
Taekwondo Women’s Open Championships Muju
Riyadh
June
Nov.
WORLD TAEKWONDO
WOMEN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Riyadh 2021
Nov. 25-27, 2021
Saudi Arabia
166
167
WORLD TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX CHALLENGE
June 10-12, 2022 Korea
168
Muju Taekwondowon 2022
169
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