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World Taekwondo Championships

Taekwondo competition

Field	Value
name	World Taekwondo Championships
current_event	2025 World Taekwondo Championships
discipline	Taekwondo
type	kyourugui, biennial
organiser	World Taekwondo (WT)
first	1973 in Seoul, South Korea
number	27 (2025)

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

Competitions

Year	Date	City and host country	Venue	Men's champion	Women's champion
1973	May 25–27	KOR Seoul, South Korea	Kukkiwon	South Korea
1975	August 28–31	KOR Seoul, South Korea	Jangchung Arena	South Korea
1977	September 15–17	USA Chicago, United States	International Amphitheatre	South Korea
1979	October 26–28	FRG Stuttgart, West Germany	Glaspalast Sindelfingen	South Korea
1982	February 24–27	ECU Guayaquil, Ecuador	Coliseo Cerrado	South Korea
1983	October 20–23	DEN Copenhagen, Denmark	Brøndbyhallen	South Korea
1985	September 4–8	KOR Seoul, South Korea	Jamsil Arena	South Korea
1987	October 7–11	ESP Barcelona, Spain	Palau dels Esports	South Korea	South Korea
1989	October 9–14	KOR Seoul, South Korea	Jamsil Arena	South Korea	South Korea
1991	October 28 – November 3	GRE Athens, Greece		Peace and Friendship Stadium	South Korea	South Korea
1993	August 19–23	USA New York City, United States	Madison Square Garden	South Korea	South Korea
1995	November 17–21	PHI Manila, Philippines	Folk Arts Theater	South Korea	South Korea
1997	November 19–23	HKG Hong Kong	Hong Kong Coliseum	South Korea	South Korea
1999	June 2–6	CAN Edmonton, Canada	Universiade Pavilion	South Korea	South Korea
2001	November 1–7	KOR Jeju, South Korea	Halla Gymnasium	South Korea	South Korea
2003	September 24–28	GER Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Olympia-Eissport-Zentrum	South Korea	South Korea
2005	April 13–17	ESP Madrid, Spain	Palacio de Deportes	South Korea	South Korea
2007	May 18–22	CHN Beijing, China	Changping Gymnasium	South Korea	South Korea
2009	October 14–18	DEN Copenhagen, Denmark	Ballerup Super Arena	South Korea	China
2011	May 1–6	KOR Gyeongju, South Korea	Gyeongju Indoor Stadium	Iran	South Korea
2013	July 15–21	MEX Puebla, Mexico	Exhibition Center of Puebla	South Korea	South Korea
2015	May 12–18	RUS Chelyabinsk, Russia	Traktor Ice Arena	Iran	South Korea
2017	June 24–30	KOR Muju, South Korea	Taekwondowon	South Korea	South Korea
2019	May 15–19	GBR Manchester, United Kingdom	Manchester Arena	South Korea	South Korea
2022	November 13–20	MEX Guadalajara, Mexico1	CODE Metropolitano	South Korea	Mexico
2023	May 29 – June 6	AZE Baku, Azerbaijan	Baku Crystal Hall	South Korea	Turkey
2025	October 24–30	CHN Wuxi, China	Wuxi Taihu International Expo Center	South Korea	Turkey
2027		KAZ 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. :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		72 kg / 78 kg / 80 kg	2001	2009	5	–	–	5
2	Choi Yeon-ho		54 kg	2001	2009	4	–	–	4
Jeong Kook-hyun		73 kg / 76 kg	1982	1987	4	–	–	4
4	Bahri Tanrıkulu		78 kg / 84 kg / 87 kg	1999	2009	3	1	1	5
5	Lee Dae-hoon		63 kg / 68 kg	2011	2019	3	–	1	4
6	Jin Seung-tae		50 kg / 54 kg	1993	1997	3	–	–	3
Kim Je-kyoung		+83 kg	1993	1997	3	–	–	3
Kim Tae-hun		54 kg	2013	2017	3	–	–	3
Kim Yong-ki		58 kg / 56 kg	1977	1982	3	–	–	3
Yang Dae-seung		70 kg	1987	1991	3	–	–	3

Women

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

World Poomsae Championships

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

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

References

"WTF Medal Winners". [[World Taekwondo Federation]].
"World Taekwondo".
"[World Taekwondo] Goyang 2022 World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships".
"World Taekwondo".
Valderrama, Aeron Paul. (2020-12-14). "Ernesto Guzman regains Poomsae World title".
"[World Taekwondo] The World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships Cancelled".

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