[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug 5, 2022) - On the fourth day of the Sofia 2022 World Taekwondo Junior Championships Italy managed to win its first gold as Korea and Iran continued their impressive form in the event. The day’s action saw competition across the M-63kg, W-55kg and M-68kg. Iran took gold in the M-63kg with Uzbekistan winning silver and Greece and Korea taking bronze. In the W-55kg, Korea won gold, Greece silver, and Croatia and Norway took bronze. While in the M-68kg it was Italy who won gold, with Serbia taking silver and Australia and Kazakhstan settling for bronze. In
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug 4, 2022) - The third day of the Sofia 2022 World Taekwondo Championships saw Korea win all three golds on offer in a dominant day for the Asian Korea won golds in the M-55kg, M-59kg and the W-52kg, with United States of America, Thailand and Uzbekistan winning silvers respectively. The M-55kg was the first of the day’s finals as Euijun Hong of Korea faced the USA’s William Cunningham. Hong was too strong for Cunningham and won the match 2-0. Following in Hong’s footsteps, Yeowon Seo overcame Uzbekistan’s Marjona Khudaykulova 2-0 in the W-52kg. The hatt
[By NBC-1TV K, K Yi] SOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug 3, 2022) - The second day of the spectacular Sofia 2022 World Taekwondo Junior Championships saw Iran and Korea win two medals each. The first final of the night drew Abolfazl Zandi from Iran against Pornpawit Toruen from Thailand in the M-48kg. The opening round set the tone for what would be a breathless and highly competitive match. With both fighters landing a number of head kicks the round finished 15-12 to Zandi. The second round followed in the same vein but Zandi was ultimately too strong and won the second round with a commanding score of 25-1
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug 2, 2022) - The Sofia 2022 World Taekwondo Junior Championships opened in style today with President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev and World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue officially opening the event following a thrilling performance by the World Taekwondo Demonstration The semi-finals and finals of the W-42kg, M-45kg and W-44kg followed the opening ceremony and saw gold medals go to Iran, Korea and Thailand. President Radev and President Choue were joined by President of Taekwondo Bulgaria Slavi Binev at the opening ceremony and addressing the crowd, Pr
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug 1, 2022) - World Taekwondo today inducted its first six inductees into the inaugural World Taekwondo Hall of Fame 2022 during its General Assembly in Sofia. The official ceremony was one of the key items on the General Assembly agenda which also included the reveal of World Taekwondo’s golden jubilee logo and theme: Peace in Mind, Taekwondo at Heart”. The golden jubilee will be celebrated next year. During the General Assembly there were also a number of important reports on subjects including the MNA survey which will be the foundation for the MNA ran
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] Sofia set to welcome future stars for 2022 World Taekwondo Cadet & Junior Championships Sofia will soon welcome the world’s best young Taekwondo athletes as it prepares to host the 2022 World Taekwondo Cadet and World Taekwondo Junior Championships on July 28-31 and August 2-7 respectively. The Sofia 2022 World Taekwondo Cadet Championships has seen 683 athletes aged between 12 and 14 years old from 77 countries register. It will be the 5th edition of the event after the previous edition was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, 811 athletes aged between 14
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] World Taekwondo (WT) and the Asia Development Foundation (ADF) kicked off their new WT-ADF Cares Program in three countries - Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Timor-Leste - on July 1, 2022 for a one-year period. The new WT-ADF Cares projects, funded by the ADF, are designed to help empower the powerless, such as orphans, reformatory inmates and street children, in developing countries in the Asian region through the education of Taekwondo and the Korean language. Under the theme “Bright Future with Taekwondo,” the 2022-2023 Mongolia WT-ADF Cares Program started last week with a to
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SEOUL, Korea (July 1, 2022) - Virtual Taekwondo is poised to become an exciting feature in World Taekwondo events after the world governing body and its development partner, Refract Technologies, signed a joint venture agreement. The new agreement builds on an existing MOU between the two organisations and aims to leverage cutting-edge technology in the promotion of Virtual Taekwondo to World Taekwondo communities around the world, including refugee camps where feasible. World Taekwondo and Refract Technologies will also jointly organise Virtual Taekwondo showcases and com
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SEOUL, Korea (Jun 21, 2022) - Refugee athlete Wael Fawaz Al-Farraj travelled to Korea this week to take part in the 25th Asian Taekwondo Championships and 2022 Chuncheon Korea Open stopped off to meet World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue at the federation’s headquarters in Seoul. Wael was recently selected by the IOC as one of seven Taekwondo athletes to receive Olympic Scholarships for Refugee Athletes to help them train towards the goal of being selected for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team Paris 2024. Having narrowly missed out on competing at Tokyo 2020, Wael will be h
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] MUJU, Korea (Jun 10, 2022) – The first day of action at the inaugural edition of the Muju Taekwondowon 2022 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge brought incredible Taekwondo action with athletes from China and Chinese Taipei taking gold. Taking place in the purpose-built Taekwondowon complex in the scenic valley of Muju, southwest Korea, the new G1-ranked tournament features fighters below 70 in Taekwondo’s Olympic rankings with tickets to this year’s World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Manchester, UK on offer to 1st and 2nd place finishers in each weight category. Today’s compe