More than 250 athletes from 40 countries are expected at the World Para Taekwondo Championships at the

Para taekwondo is set for a big increase in its number of athletes at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.The

event.Tokyo 2020 medallist Mahmut Bozteke will be among hosts Turkey's representatives at the World Para

Taekwondo Championships ©Getty ImagesWuxi in China had been due to host the competition, but it was

moved because of the COVID-19 pandemic.This year's edition will be the seventh World Para Taekwondo Championships

ceiling.An athlete who holds a lead of 30 points or reaches 40 points will be declared the winner.World Taekwondo

Turkey’s Mahmut Bozteke, who reached the podium at the first Paralympic taekwondo competition in Tokyo

sportsmanship ©Getty ImagesIt has been an outstanding year for the 24-year-old from Sanliurfa, who took up Para

taekwondo as part of his recuperation from a traumatic accident suffered when he was 11 when he lost

Iran captured two titles on the final day of the Bahrain 2021 Asian Youth Para Games as they finished

their success came in the athletics, while they also claimed seven of the 22 medals on offer in the Para

taekwondo as the discipline made its Asian Youth Para Games debut.PHOTO of the Day: Nepal's ??

55 medals for third place.Asian Paralympic Committee President Majid Rashed declared the Asian Youth Para

We’ve seen some amazing performances that give us hope that the future of Para sport in Asia is bright

Para taekwondo fighter Lisa Gjessing has been nominated for the Danish Sports Name of the Year award

four-time world champion, had the first opportunity of her storied career to win a Paralympic medal as Para

women's K44 under-58 kilograms title at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, her first-ever Paralympic medal as Para

taekwondo made its debut at the Games ©Getty ImagesA member of Denmark's able-bodied taekwondo team

cancer.She underwent different treatments before her lower left arm was amputated in 2012 and committed to Para

taekwondo in preparation for the 2013 World Championships.

The Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) President Majid Rashed said he hopes the Asian Youth Para Games

Committee President Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa.Rashed underlined the significance of the Games for Para

In this way, we can start to deliver on the APC’s vision ‘to make for an inclusive Asia through Para

sport’.The Asian Youth Para Games Opening Ceremony was held at the Bahrain International Circuit ©James

Games programme - athletics, badminton, boccia, goalball, powerlifting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo

the Isa Sports City.Competition at the Games is due to run until Monday (December 6).The Asian Youth Para

Bahrain is set to host the fourth edition of the Asian Youth Para Games with an Opening Ceremony launching

take place until next Monday (December 6).It will be the first time that Bahrain has hosted a large Para-sports

compete in nine sports - athletics, badminton, boccia, goalball, powerlifting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo

from the 2017 event in Dubai.Competition will take place at two venues.Paralympian Praveen Kumar & Para-Shuttler

@palakkohli2002 are the Flag bearers of Indian Contingent in the Opening Ceremony of Asian Youth Para

The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will feature 549 medal events, including a record number of competitions and slots for women athletes, after the programme was approved by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board.

in Sydney.Ten of the sports on the programme will have more spaces available for women athletes.Para taekwondo

under-47kg, under-52kg, under-57kg, under-65kg and over-65kg.Chungwon Choue, the President of World Taekwondo

, said: "We are delighted that Para taekwondo’s medal events and athlete quota has been increased for

This decision is a tribute to all the Paralympians who made Para taekwondo such a great success at our

Para taekwondo made its Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020, and will include four more weight divisions and

Mexican Para taekwondo coach, Jannet Alegría, and athlete María Espinoza have both won accolades at the

honours.Most recently the national team won three gold medals, three silvers and one bronze at the Para

I feel very happy and grateful with life, with the Mexican Taekwondo Federation, with President Raymundo

González, who invited me to be part of the Para taekwondo team, also with the director of Conade, Ana

Next month's World Para Taekwondo Championships in Istanbul will take place inside a biosecure bubble

time a "Super K44" class will be held, including athletes who had previously been listed as K43 or K42.Taekwondo

International Olympic Committee member Aïcha Garad Ali has been appointed as vice-president of World Taekwondo

Ali was chosen for the role by World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue, who has the power to appoint

 The 54-year-old Ali, the President of the Djibouti National Olympic Committee, became a World Taekwondo

confirmed four of his choices, including Emirati royal Her Highness Sheikha Jameela, who has chaired World Para

Taekwondo.Also named is former World Taekwondo secretary general Jean-Marie Ayer, New Zealand's Maher

Magableh and Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation Board member Anna Panka.Choue's remaining two choices

Thailand's first-ever Paralympic taekwondo medallist, Khwansuda Phuangkitcha, has received gifts from

and a hanbok - a traditional Korean dress - by Lee.Shin Young-kyun, who coaches Thailand's national Para

taekwondo team, was also honoured.The ceremony was combined with the opening of the Korean Cultural

Center in Thailand's "Online K-Pop Academy".Taekwondo made its Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020.Khwansuda

Phuangkitcha is Thailand's first-ever Paralympic taekwondo medallist ©Getty ImagesSeventeen different

Mahjabin Hakimi, a member of the Afghanistan women's youth volleyball team, has reportedly been beheaded by the Taliban in the country's capital of Kabul because of its objection to women's sport.

Afghanistan's Chef de Mission at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Arian Sadiqi, fears for the lives of 12 Para

evacuate nearly 100 Afghan football stakeholders, including female players, again to Qatar.Seven female taekwondo

World Taekwondo's Para Taekwondo Committee chair Chakir Chelbat has called 2022 a "very big year" for

international competitions, bigger World Championships, and a Grand Prix series," said Chelbat on the future of Para-taekwondo

Taekwondo is on the programme for the Paris 2024 Paralympics ©Getty ImagesOther ideas include working

Paralympics, after its limited coverage during Tokyo 2020.With wheelchair fencing and powerlifting, taekwondo

Danish Para-taekwondo legend Lisa Gjessing, four times a world champion and three times a European champion

point in her life, Gjessing got in touch with her former coach, Bjarne Johansen, who spoke to her about Para-taekwondo.She

soon practicing alongside elite athletes at Johansen's training centre, in preparation for the World Para

Taekwondo has become a very big gift to me," she told World Taekwondo.

"Johansen had an elite taekwondo centre and his guys were on a high level," she said.

She started intensive training for the 2013 World Para Taekwondo Championships in Lausanne.She was off

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo laid the first stone of the Arena Porte de la Chapelle project, which is being built in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

restaurants", and will act as part of the Paris 2024 legacy.It will also host badminton, rhythmic gymnastics, Para

badminton, and Para taekwondo competition in 2024.Hidalgo laid the first foundation stone of the project