One hundred days from today, Monday 20 May, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games get underway. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has released a film addressing the romantic stereotypes of what some people think the Paralympics represent versus the brutal reality of high-performance sport.

The creative is initially set in a dream-like animated city of Paris where Para athletes run, jump, fence

animated love-in and song is abruptly interrupted with the harsh realism of Paralympic sport as British taekwondo

and expectations - "To make (the French) proud like never before".With tickets priced at 15 euros for Para

France, wheelchair tennis at Roland Garros, five-a-side football at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, and Para

lineup on Wednesday of 10 sports scheduled to be showcased in the upcoming edition of the Asian Youth Para

The comprehensive sports program for the event includes Para Athletics, Para-Armwrestling, Para Cycling

, Goalball, Para Judo, Para Powerlifting, Para Swimming, Para Canoe, Para Taekwondo, and Para Academic

Uzbekistan and the wider Asian region, will make its debut in the sports program of an Asian Youth Para

federations’ requirements, we are pleased to announce the sport programme of the fifth Asian Youth Para

The Tashkent 2025 Games will mark the inaugural occasion of the Asian Youth Para Games being hosted in

Team GB ended a successful European Championship campaign with 6 medals in able bodied and 3 medals in para

Powell (62 kg) won her first, both taking silver.Caden Cunningham - the rising star of Great Britain's Taekwondo

keeping up the training as I prepare for the Paris games,” commented Cunningham on his victory.In the Para

awarded as one of the top teams in Europe again, with Europe being one of the strongest continents for Taekwondo

The 2024 Para-Taekwondo European Championships were held in Belgrade, Serbia, from 9 to 12 May in parallel

with the 2024 European Taekwondo Championships.

GETTY IMAGESAll the medallists at the 2024 Para Taekwondo European ChampionshipsMen’s 58 kg1.

Within a week, two major taekwondo events took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - the Pan American Senior

Brazil also won the Para Taekwondo team events at both the Pan American Championships and the Rio Open

The Para Taekwondo season is heating up with four events lined up in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

The action started with the Pan Am Para Taekwondo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 3 May with

Taekwondo Open, also in Rio de Janeiro, on 5 May with 48 athletes from nine countries set to take part.The

focus will then move to Europe with the European Para Taekwondo Championships in Belgrade, Serbia from

The event, which will be held alongside the European Taekwondo Championships. will be contested by 89

WTThe ninth Asian Para Taekwondo Open Championships take place in Da Nang, Vietnam on 19 May with 118

A four-day para-taekwondo camp for 30 top international referees selected for the Paris 2024 Paralympic

A grand opening ceremony was held on the morning of 24 April, with World Taekwondo President Choue Chung-won

nbsp;Mohammed Argoubi, Paralympic Games Technical Controller, provided a comprehensive overview of the Para

Taekwondo Competition Rules, while Usman Dildar, Paralympic Games Technical Controller, highlighted

training, which provided the referees with additional invaluable skills and insights.Usman Dildar, Para

events, particularly in the development of Para Taekwondo worldwide.

Seven Para-Taekwondo athletes from Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the host Solomon Islands booked their tickets

Paris 2024 will also be the first Para-Taekwondo Games for these nations.

 "The Oceania Taekwondo Union is really proud to see Para-athletes from our region qualify for the

Paris Paralympics - this is the first time in many years that we have so many Para athletes representing

We are committed to developing more Para-athletes in our region," said Denzil Ray of the Oceania Taekwondo

The 38th ITF European Taekwon-Do Championships started alongside the 29th Junior European Championships and the first ever Pre-Junior European Championships, with over 1,000 people attending the opening ceremony at the Medical University of Lublin in Poland.

opening of the three competitions, there were also presentations of board members, referees, athletes and para-athletes

from the international taekwondo family.An evening full of awards for the grandmasters of taekwondo.

attendance were university and local officials, as well as ITF officials at European and world level, and taekwondo

Following the Pan American Taekwondo Qualification Tournament in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic

countries - Chile, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela - qualified for the Paralympic Games Taekwondo

PATUIn the men's -80 kg, Aruba's Elliott Loonstra surprised Santiago 2023 Para Pan American Games champion

Argentina's Miguel Galeano shocked Mexico's Ivan Torres, the Santiago 2023 Para Pan American Games champion

In its quest to achieve the best possible result at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Team Mexico have held a training camp in France ahead of the all-important Games.

 In the debut of Para Taekwondo at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Mexico won a gold medal thanks

stars such as Jessica Garcia Quijano, the reigning world champion, and Claudia Romero, the best women's Para

From the streets of Dakar to qualifying for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Idrissa Keita's story is one of resilience, grit and unwavering determination to become this summer a Paralympic athlete.

Thanks to Para Taekwondo, I am already making her proud and happy," he said.

For him, Para Taekwondo means "discipline.

one of these days last year that Keita met Maitre Abdoulaye Ndiaye, coach of the Senegalese national para-taekwondo

WORLD TAEKWONDO"He asked me to join Para Taekwondo after knowing my interest in the sport.

My sole focus now is to get better at Para Taekwondo.

Seven countries won Olympic licences for the Paris 2024 Paralympics at the Asian Qualifiers held in Tai'an, China on 17 March, with Thailand as the luckiest country with three Olympic berths.

On March 7, master Leonardo Oros Duek, President of the All Europe Taekwon-Do Federation (AETF) made a historic visit to Kosovo. The primary purpose of this trip was to develop Taekwon-Do in the region. He was accompanied by Efraim Barak, General Counsel of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF).

This invitation held great importance for Master Oros Duek, as it included a para taekwondo competition

coincidences were shared among the parties.AETF President was present at the press conference of the Taekwondo

between both organisations.Subsequently to the lunch, Master Leonardo Oros Duek was escorted to the para

taekwondo competition, where he could witness the development of the event.

and European levels specifically.This report highlights the importance of exchange between the main taekwondo

The European Para-Taekwondo Qualification Tournament for the Paris 2024 Paralympics took place on 8th

Japaridze and Nikoladze will be the first Para Taekwondo athletes from Georgia to compete at the Paralympic