World Taekwondo Championships

World Taekwondo Championships
Current event or competition:
2025 World Taekwondo Championships
Competition details
DisciplineTaekwondo
Typekyourugui, biennial
OrganiserWorld Taekwondo (WT)
History
First edition1973 in Seoul, South Korea
Editions27 (2025)

The World Taekwondo Championship is held every two years by World Taekwondo.[1] In addition to the kyorugi (full contact fighting) Championships, there are also Para World Championships[2] as well as Poomsae and Para Poomsae Championships held every two years.[3]

Competitions

Year Date City and host country Venue Men's champion Women's champion
1973 May 25–27 Seoul, South Korea Kukkiwon South Korea
1975 August 28–31 Seoul, South Korea Jangchung Arena South Korea
1977 September 15–17 Chicago, United States International Amphitheatre South Korea
1979 October 26–28 Stuttgart, West Germany Glaspalast Sindelfingen South Korea
1982 February 24–27 Guayaquil, Ecuador Coliseo Cerrado South Korea
1983 October 20–23 Copenhagen, Denmark Brøndbyhallen South Korea
1985 September 4–8 Seoul, South Korea Jamsil Arena South Korea
1987 October 7–11 Barcelona, Spain Palau dels Esports South Korea South Korea
1989 October 9–14 Seoul, South Korea Jamsil Arena South Korea South Korea
1991 October 28 – November 3 Athens, Greece Peace and Friendship Stadium South Korea South Korea
1993 August 19–23 New York City, United States Madison Square Garden South Korea South Korea
1995 November 17–21 Manila, Philippines Folk Arts Theater South Korea South Korea
1997 November 19–23 Hong Kong Hong Kong Coliseum South Korea South Korea
1999 June 2–6 Edmonton, Canada Universiade Pavilion South Korea South Korea
2001 November 1–7 Jeju, South Korea Halla Gymnasium South Korea South Korea
2003 September 24–28 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Olympia-Eissport-Zentrum South Korea South Korea
2005 April 13–17 Madrid, Spain Palacio de Deportes South Korea South Korea
2007 May 18–22 Beijing, China Changping Gymnasium South Korea South Korea
2009 October 14–18 Copenhagen, Denmark Ballerup Super Arena South Korea China
2011 May 1–6 Gyeongju, South Korea Gyeongju Indoor Stadium Iran South Korea
2013 July 15–21 Puebla, Mexico Exhibition Center of Puebla South Korea South Korea
2015 May 12–18 Chelyabinsk, Russia Traktor Ice Arena Iran South Korea
2017 June 24–30 Muju, South Korea Taekwondowon South Korea South Korea
2019 May 15–19 Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester Arena South Korea South Korea
2022 November 13–20 Guadalajara, Mexico1 CODE Metropolitano South Korea Mexico
2023 May 29 – June 6 Baku, Azerbaijan Baku Crystal Hall South Korea Turkey
2025 October 24–30 Wuxi, China Wuxi Taihu International Expo Center South Korea Turkey
2027 Astana, Kazakhstan

1 Wuxi, China, was originally selected to host the 2021 World Taekwondo Championships. Due to the impact of the Global COVID-19 pandemic, Wuxi gave up hosting the World Taekwondo Championship. In Early 2022, Guadalajara, Mexico was selected as a replacement host and the 2025 championship was scheduled to be held in Wuxi, China, instead.

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 South Korea1783739254
2 Spain232969121
3 Turkey21243883
4 Chinese Taipei16294085
5 Iran16222866
6 United States14225187
7 China14182658
8 France8111736
9 Great Britain8101533
10 Mexico7323776
11 Thailand791632
12 Croatia562233
13 Netherlands451625
14 Cuba43815
15 Serbia42612
16 Azerbaijan411217
17 Russia3131834
18 Brazil3101427
19 West Germany381930
20 Uzbekistan38718
21 Italy361625
22 Germany341623
23 Egypt331622
24 Hungary3137
25 Denmark26311
26 Ivory Coast241218
27 Tunisia2057
28 Belgium2035
29 Mali2024
30 Canada1111426
31 Greece151117
– Individual Neutral Athletesa14712
32 Ecuador1214
33 Australia111921
34 Japan1168
35 World Taekwondo Federationb1102
36 Gabon1023
37 Niger1001
38 Philippines05611
39 Jordan03811
40 Morocco03710
41 Puerto Rico0235
42 Afghanistan0224
43 Chile0213
44 Indonesia0202
45 Vietnam0156
46 Argentina0145
 Venezuela0145
48 Israel0112
 Portugal0112
 Ukraine0112
51 Bahrain0101
 Guam0101
 South Africa0101
54 Kazakhstan001010
55 Sweden0077
56 Dominican Republic0066
57 Colombia0055
58 Belarus0044
 Norway0044
 Saudi Arabia0044
61 Austria0033
 Senegal0033
 Slovenia0033
 Switzerland0033
65 Cyprus0022
 Finland0022
 Guatemala0022
 Latvia0022
 Malaysia0022
 Moldova0022
 Nepal0022
 Nigeria0022
 Poland0022
 Serbia and Montenegro0022
75 Bulgaria0011
 Costa Rica0011
 Uganda0011
Totals (77 entries)3763767521,504
a^ At the 2023 and 2025 World Championships, athletes from Russia and Belarus in accordance with sanctions imposed following by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine participated as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), their medals were not included in the official medal table.
b^ At the 2015 World Championships, athletes from Belgium competed as World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) due to the suspension of the country's Taekwondo Federation.

Multiple gold medalists

The tables shows those who have won at least 3 gold medals at the World Championships. Boldface denotes active taekwondo practitioners and highest medal count among all taekwondo practitioners (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Men

Rank Taekwondo practitioner Country Weights From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Steven López  United States 72 kg / 78 kg / 80 kg 2001 2009 5 – – 5
2 Choi Yeon-ho  South Korea 54 kg 2001 2009 4 – – 4
Jeong Kook-hyun  South Korea 73 kg / 76 kg 1982 1987 4 – – 4
4 Bahri Tanrıkulu  Turkey 78 kg / 84 kg / 87 kg 1999 2009 3 1 1 5
5 Lee Dae-hoon  South Korea 63 kg / 68 kg 2011 2019 3 – 1 4
6 Jin Seung-tae  South Korea 50 kg / 54 kg 1993 1997 3 – – 3
Kim Je-kyoung  South Korea +83 kg 1993 1997 3 – – 3
Kim Tae-hun  South Korea 54 kg 2013 2017 3 – – 3
Kim Yong-ki  South Korea 58 kg / 56 kg 1977 1982 3 – – 3
Yang Dae-seung  South Korea 70 kg 1987 1991 3 – – 3

Women

Rank Taekwondo practitioner Country Weights From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Brigitte Yagüe  Spain 51 kg / 47 kg / 49 kg 2001 2011 3 2 1 6
2 Cho Hyang-mi  South Korea 65 kg / 63 kg 1991 1999 3 – 1 4
Bianca Cook (Walkden)  Great Britain +73 kg 2015 2023 3 – 1 4
4 Jung Myoung-sook  South Korea +70 kg 1993 1997 3 – – 3

World Poomsae Championships

Year Date City and host country
2014 October 30 – November 2 Aguascalientes, Mexico
2016 September 29 – October 2 Lima, Peru
2018 November 15 – 18 Taipei, Taiwan
2020 November 15 – December 15 online*
2022 April 21 – 24 Goyang, South Korea
2024 November 30 – December 4 Hong Kong, China
2026 September 16 – 20 Chuncheon, South Korea

* The 2020 World Poomsae Championships were held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4][5] The event was originally meant to be held in May in Herning, Denmark.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "WTF Medal Winners". World Taekwondo Federation. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  2. ^ "World Taekwondo". m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  3. ^ "[World Taekwondo] Goyang 2022 World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships". m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  4. ^ "World Taekwondo". m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  5. ^ Valderrama, Aeron Paul (2020-12-14). "Ernesto Guzman regains Poomsae World title". Tiebreaker Times. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  6. ^ "[World Taekwondo] The World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships Cancelled". m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
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