The Kenya Taekwondo Federation (KTF) is set to host a training camp next week in an attempt to improve

Wesonga praised the national Para taekwondo team after they won a silver and three bronzes at the fifth

African Para Taekwondo Championships in Niamey, Niger this month.To further ensure the whole of the

coaches in the country to raise the nation’s standards.Team Kenya is set to participate in the World Taekwondo

Mehdi Bensafi has left the French Federation of Taekwondo (FFTDA) after 15 years of service to take up

responsibilities covered the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and various European and World Taekwondo

national technical director for innovation, research and development.He will continue his involvement with taekwondo

It is with great emotion that I leave this great family of French taekwondo," he said.Mehdi BensafI has

Taekwondo first appeared as an Olympic medal sport at Sydney 2000, while it made its Paralympic debut

at Tokyo 2020.Para taekwondo at Paris 2024 is set to expand from three weight divisions for both genders

Sport Inclusion Australia alongside national and state sporting organisations have been given the green light to host the first Virtus Oceania Asia Games (OAGames), with an estimated 1,000 international athletes and officials expected to attend.

The multi-sport event, which includes athletics, basketball, cycling, rowing, swimming, taekwondo, tennis

, and table tennis, has added badminton, judo, and triathlon to the programme.The inaugural World Para

The International School Sport Federation (ISF) is nearing the launch of its first events for the year with online chess, cross country and ISF Gymnasiade due to be played first.

May 14 and 22.They will participate in 20 sports, including archery, artistic gymnastics, athletics, Para

athletics, badminton, basketball 3x3, beach volleyball, boxing, dancesport/breaking, fencing, judo, Para

judo, orienteering, rhythmic gymnastics, rugby sevens, swimming, Para swimming, table tennis, taekwondo

Egyptians won three gold medals at the African Para Taekwondo Championships in Niamey. 

from the Central African Republic in the final.Senegal and Ivory Coast also won medals at the African Para

Taekwondo Championships.

Daniel Espinosa has been appointed as head coach of the USA Para taekwondo team.

I have the honour to announce that I am the new head coach of the USA Para Taekwondo team," Espinosa

career highlights span 33 years - a period that saw him collect 27 medals.The American won three World Para

2017 and 2019.Evan Meddell, first on the right, won bronze at Tokyo 2020, to give Team USA their first Para

taekwondo medal ©Getty ImagesHe also won gold at the 2017 U.S.

Para taekwondo was included on the Paralympic programme for the first time at Tokyo 2020.Evan Meddell

At the age of 20, Guljonoy Naimova made Uzbekistan proud by earning gold at the inaugural Paralympic taekwondo

in the Turkish city of Antalya but lost 7-3 in the final to Menezes, who thus claimed a first global Para-taekwondo

that year, Naimova's ambition was thwarted once again as she had to settle for bronze at the Asian Para

Open Taekwondo Championships in Amman, with Truesdale claiming gold.But her semi-final meeting with

I'm in shock," Naimova told World Para Taekwondo after her win.

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has branded 2022 a year for "restart", with major events scheduled

We have major events lined up, as we look to organise the World Taekwondo Championships, World Taekwondo

Junior and Cadet Championships, and World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships this year."

sixth consecutive appearance at the Olympic Games and its "exciting" Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020.Para

Chungwon Choue also hailed Para taekwondo's Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty ImagesHe reflected

Thank you for your dedication and passion for our beloved taekwondo."

Bolor-Erdene Ganbat and Enkhtuya Khurelbaatar have been feted on their return to the country after the World Para

Taekwondo Championships in Istanbul.

The pair received a hero's welcome at the airport, including a guard of honour from fellow taekwondo

under-61 kilograms K44 division in Turkey, bouncing back from his shock elimination at Tokyo 2020, when taekwondo

champion, earned a bronze medal in Istanbul.It is Khurelbaatar's third straight medal at the World Para

Taekwondo Championships, and she now has one of each colour.

Syrian refugee athlete Ahmad Rafiq Aldaji has described competing at the World Para Taekwondo Championships

living in a refugee camp, Aldaji has now lives in a house with his wife and two children.He took up Para

taekwondo to help with his recovery and the event in Istanbul - where he competed for the refugee team

 "I do running, fitness, and cardio and I [practice] the basic movements of taekwondo, but without

Indian athlete Chandeep Singh has called for financial backing after making history at the World Para

Taekwondo Championships in Istanbul.

80 kilograms division on December 12.He was beaten in the final by Viktor Alexandrov of the Russian Taekwondo

in the history of Para-Taekwondo World Championship!!Sadly no news will cover him!

celebrations included a three-tier cake featuring edible photos of Singh and the logo of the World Para

Taekwondo Championships.There was also a large fondant figure of him dressed in his taekwondo uniform

Amely Moras has been appointed as the first female chair of World Taekwondo's Referee Committee.

Committee's vice-chair, having enjoyed refereeing experience at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.World Taekwondo

become chair of the Integrity and Ethics Committee.Saudi Arabian Hadwah Moawad will chair both the Para

Taekwondo Classification Committee and the Taekwondo For All Committee.Several incumbent Commission

of the Medical and Anti-Doping Committee and Sweden's Chakir Chelbat remains in the lead role of the Para

Taekwondo Committee.Jungheon Kim of South Korea will lead the Poomsae Committee.The total make-up of

The 2023 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games are set to take place in Nakon Ratchasima in Thailand from December 1 to 9.

swimming, shooting, wheelchair tennis, sitting volleyball, powerlifting, table tennis, archery, badminton, taekwondo

The venues in Nakhon Ratchasima have been used for many international Para sports events and the facilities

Iran celebrated double gold on the second day of the World Para Taekwondo Championships in Istanbul.

ended level at 5-5, but the Iranian was confirmed as the winner after an additional period.The Russian Taekwondo

a fifth world title in the men’s under-63kg K44 category, while Aasif Yasur became Israel’s maiden Para

taekwondo world champion by winning the K41 under-58kg event.Brazil’s Silvana Cardoso beat Turkey’s

Hosts Turkey has seven finalists in nine bouts at the World Para Taekwondo Championships, which are currently

semi-final.In the under-47kg, K41 Turkey's Semra Kara will face Serbian Dejana Backo in the final bout.Russian Taekwondo