Pictograms have been revealed for the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou.

the Games.The pictogram release is a major milestone on the road to the fourth edition of the Asian Para

, go, judo, lawn bowls, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, swimming, sitting volleyball, table tennis, taekwondo

basketball, five-a-side football, wheelchair fencing and wheelchair tennis are the sports on the Asian Para

Iranian Chef de Mission Hadi Rezaei has spoken of his intention to send 50 athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games - more than half the size of the delegation that competed at Rio 2016.

Committee.Iran is set to compete in athletics, archery, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, taekwondo

Two male taekwondo practitioners have so far won their place in the Games but there is a chance we send

Six powerlifters as well as nine Para athletes will be sent to Tokyo."

World Taekwondo held its first Extraordinary Council meeting of 2021 and discussed the safe return of

Two of the biggest events in the taekwondo calendar - the Olympic Games and World Taekwondo Championships

 Para-taekwondo is set to make its debut on the Paralympic programme at Tokyo 2020.

set to run from October 12 to 18 before the World Para Taekwondo Championships on October 21 and 22.

 These include 15 World Taekwondo events, 10 taekwondo competitions at multi-sport events, and 38

Women’s Open Championships, World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge, World Taekwondo Urban Championships

Para-taekwondo will be "like nothing that has ever previously been seen" at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic

That’s the view of Olof Hansson, director of Para-taekwondo, as the sport celebrates Para Taekwondo Day

It’s definitely the biggest event that has ever happened to Para-taekwondo."

more interest from National Paralympic Committees.World Taekwondo believes Para-taekwondo has continued

We have two wonderful committees connected to Para-taekwondo in the Para Taekwondo Committee and the

The 2019 Para Taekwondo World Championships nearly doubled in size from the event in 2017 and World Taekwondo

World Para Taekwondo has opened registration for online courses for coaches and classifiers in February

 A level-two course will also be held from February 19 to 21 in English and Persian.World Taekwondo

Para Committee chair Chakir Chelbat is set to be a speaker in the upcoming round of online courses ©

World TaekwondoGuest speakers at the level-two course have been listed as World Taekwondo Para Games

chair Usman Dildar and Para Committee chair Chakir Chelbat.

 Those who would like to participate are now able to register on the World Para Taekwondo website

The Brazilian Taekwondo Confederation (CBTKD) has announced an event that will determine the Brazilian

Para-taekwondo team for the 2021 season.

costs for those athletes.During the "Draft", athletes will be accompanied by the selection team for para-taekwondo

country and be able to fight for medals at these international events, in all categories," said Brazilian para-taekwondo

The Peruvian Taekwondo Federation (FDPTKD) has a new President, Juan Fernando Roman Tejada.

chaired the Electoral Committee, which announced the result following remote voting.Peru won three taekwondo

medals and two Para-taekwondo medals at Lima 2019 ©Getty ImagesThe new Board will serve a four-year

term, ending at the conclusion of 2024.The FDPTKD became affiliated with World Taekwondo in 1977.When

Lima staged the Pan American Games in 2019, Peru won two silver one bronze medal in the taekwondo competition

- all in the poomsae discipline.During the Parapan American Games, Peruvian Para-taekwondo players won

Para-taekwondo has been added to the programme for the Brazilian Paralympic Committee's (CPB) flagship

Centre in São Paulo.Para-taekwondo's inclusion comes four years after the Brazilian Confederation of Taekwondo

satisfaction that we announce this important step for the development and strengthening of all Brazilian Para-taekwondo

," CBTKD President Alberto Maciel Junior said.Para-taekwondo is due to make its Paralympic debut at Tokyo

yet another partnership with the CPB and this legacy will certainly benefit countless generations of Para-taekwondists

will enable the CBTKD to bring the sport to new places and uncovered new talents, it is hoped.Para-taekwondo

National performance pathway lead Ali Khalil is determined to help Australian Taekwondo "move with the

Australia finished second in the taekwondo medal table at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games courtesy of Lauren

empty-handed from the past four Olympics.It is a trend Khalil is keen to end after joining Australian Taekwondo

The rest of the world has harnessed that information and were educating themselves on what a taekwondo

We do have to adapt to what taekwondo is doing around the world."

and Para-taekwondo athletes.The cadet, junior and senior classes will all come under his remit.Australia

Maria Emma Gaviria, the President of World Archery Americas has said the organisation is "ecstatic" at the sport's return to the Parapan American Games at Santiago in 2023.

We are ecstatic that this return to the programme of the Para Pan American Games will give para archers

part of the Paralympic Movement when it began in the 1940s.Conoce más sobre los deportes confirmados para

football 5-a-side, football 7-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo

GB Para-badminton head coach Richard Morris described the difficulties of helping players maintain motivation

 Like all sport, Para-badminton was suspended as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite the struggles, Morris claimed there had been some positives during 2020.Britain's Para-badminton

The British Para-badminton team are set to continue preparing for Tokyo 2020 this year.

the first time the sport features at a Paralympic Games after it was added to the programme alongside Para-taekwondo

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has claimed the governing body heads into 2021 "stronger than

Choue said World Taekwondo can enter the new year, set to include the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and

 "We will honour his legacy by continuing to advance taekwondo," Choue added.World Taekwondo was

forced to cancel or postpone most of its events in 2020 ©Getty ImagesChoue promised taekwondo events

so excited to see our Olympians compete again and of course, watch our Paralympians make history as Para

Taekwondo is included at a Paralympic Games for the first time.

The 2021 European Universities Games is set to be the largest edition of the event to date, organisers claim.

light of the global health crisis.Twenty-one sports, including beach handball, beach volleyball, chess, taekwondo

and Para-table tennis, are set to be contested at the fifth European Universities Games.Sitting volleyball

Ukraine's six-time Para-taekwondo world champion Vika Marchuk has added another award to her impressive

successes of athletes and coaches at regional, national, and international events.Marchuk is the first Para-taekwondo

Enkhtuya Khurelbaatar and Turkey’s second-ranked K44 athlete Meryem Betul Cavdar.A statement from World Taekwondo

read: "Regardless of her result at Para-taekwondo’s Paralympic debut, Marchuk has already blazed a pioneering

what prompted the Ukrainian Government to introduce its most prestigious sports award in the sport of Para-taekwondo

serial number at a special ceremony hosted by the Ukrainian Government.In a separate decision, World Taekwondo

World Taekwondo Oceania and Australian Taekwondo have announced that the inaugural Australian and Oceania

Taekwondo Gajok Games is to be held in March 2021.

This event will include kyorugi, poomsae and para-taekwondo as well as a new mixed gender teams discipline.Australian

It also presents a great opportunity for Australian Taekwondo and World Taekwondo Oceania to come together

," said World Taekwondo Oceania secretary general Stuart Lee."

The event which is being organised and promoted by both Australian Taekwondo and World Taekwondo Oceania

The Kyorugi, Poomsae and Para-taekwondo events will be open to many divisions from kids coloured belts