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Nahid Kiyani Chandeh and Kimia Alizadeh were once friends and roommates as part of the junior Iran taekwondo team. Kiyani Chandeh, the current world champion, came out on top of a very tense fight ...
Wongpattanakit defended her Tokyo Games title to secure Thailand’s first gold medal of the Paris Olympics and Park Tae-joon restored South Korea's pride on the opening day of the taekwondo ...
The 2024 European Qualification Tournament for Paris Olympic Games was held at Sports Hall Engineer Yanko Yankov, Sofia, Bulgaria on 9 and 10 March 2024. Each country may enter a maximum of 2 male and 2 female divisions with only one athlete in each division. The two finalists per division qualify for the Olympic Games under their NOC. [1]
The taekwondo competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 7 to 10 August at the Grand Palais strip. [1] [2] 128 taekwondo fighters, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across eight different weight categories (four per gender) at the Games, the same amount as the previous editions since Beijing 2008.
The following year, taekwondo was one of the primary events in the World Games, [2] an international competition specifically for non-Olympic events. In 1982, taekwondo was designated an official demonstration sport for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea , and for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain .
Denmark's Edi Hrnic celebrates after winning against South Korea's Seo Geon-woo in the taekwondo men's -80kg bronze medal bout of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Palais in Paris on ...
NematZadeh made her Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Olympics at the age of 19. In the first round, she defeated Michelle Thao from Lesotho , advancing to the quarterfinals. In this stage, she triumphed over Adriana Cerezo from Spain , who had won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics , to reach the semifinals.
Ever since a series of controversial matches in Beijing in 2008 threatened taekwondo's future on the Olympic stage, the Korean combat sport has been busy proving its worth at subsequent Games ...