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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.
In a rematch of their bout from the 2020 Summer Olympics where Kimia Alizadeh was the victor, Nahid Kiani narrowly defeated Alizadeh in the 2024 bout on 8 August 2024. [2] [3] Alizadeh eventually won bronze and Kiani won the silver medal, the latter being the first for an Iranian woman at the Olympics, surpassing Alizadeh's 2016 bronze feat.
Taekwondo is South Korea’s national martial art, and the country suffered a humiliation in Tokyo, where it failed to win a single gold medal for the first time since the sport became a medal ...
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 ...
[2] [3] She won gold in the 2023 World Taekwondo Grand Prix challenge, Costa Rica Open and Dominican Open and silver at the Spanish Open and Pan Am Series. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In January 2024, she competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials and defeated the 2020 Summer Olympics 57 kg champion Anastasija Zolotic to advance to the 2024 Pan American Taekwondo ...
Serbia's Milica Mandic ended South Korea's unbroken record of Olympic gold medals for taekwondo on Tuesday, beating Lee Dabin in the women's heavyweight class final to repeat her victory in the ...
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 .
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 ...