Para-taekwondo and Para-canoe will make their Asian Para Games debut in Hangzhou in 2022.

Bolor-Erdene Gambat of Mongolia at Tokyo 2020 test event ©World Taekwondo"The large number of athletes

Tokyo 2020 next year and was also confirmed for inclusion at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.World Taekwondo

President Chungwon Choue said: "It is a great honour for taekwondo to be included in the 2022 Asian

Para Games.

Para-taekwondo is an inclusive and exhilarating sport and will be like nothing the Asian Paralympic audience

Swimmer Jade Lucy has been named captain of the Australian women's team for their home International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) Global Games in Brisbane.

women's squad for the event due to begin on October 12.The 22-year-old competed at last month's World Para

on the programme - athletics, basketball, cricket, cycling, futsal, rowing, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo

Para-taekwondo world champion Lisa Gjessing has called the sport "a very big gift to me" as she targets

both the World and European Championships and is aiming to crown it all with gold at Tokyo 2020 when taekwondo

favourites to come out on top in 2020.The 41-year-old competed for Denmark in the 2001 and 2003 World Taekwondo

after her coach Bjarne Johansen introduced her to the Para-sport, and in 2013 she won under-58kg gold

at the World Para Taekwondo Championships in Lausanne.

 "I heard from Johansen in the summer of 2012 when I cut my wrist, and taekwondo has become a very

A one day Para-taekwondo tournament was held as a Tokyo 2020 test event at Makuhari Messe Hall, with

As with all Tokyo 2020 test events, the Para-taekwondo competition was taking place under the "Ready

Bossolo of Italy 16-12 in the final.Lisa Gjessing of Denmark finished with silver at the Tokyo 2020 Para-taekwondo

Four teams are set to compete at the Japan Para Goalball Championships, a Tokyo 2020 test event beginning

women's competition.The test event will take place at the Makuhari Messe Hall, which is also hosting a Para-taekwondo

World Taekwondo trialled a new uniform on the first day of the Tokyo 2020 test event at Makuhari Messe

As with all Tokyo 2020 test events, the taekwondo competition is taking place under the "Ready Steady

Tokyo 2020 will be a historic first as it is the first time ever that para taekwondo has been included

shifts to our Paralympic taekwondo competition."

taekwondo uniform but also use new technologies to make them better for athletes and fans."

Competition is due to continue tomorrow with Para-taekwondo, with the sport set to make its debut in

The British Government have pledged £50 million ($62 million/€56 million) to support their country's athletes at next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

be distributed via UK Sport to Olympic and Paralympic sports ahead of the Games next year.It means Para

taekwondo, Para badminton, sport climbing, karate and BMX freestyle are all receiving UK Sport funding

The Tokyo 2020 taekwondo test event begins tomorrow with two days of competition scheduled at Makuhari

divisions contested – the men's under-58 kilograms and the women's under-49kg.Day two will feature Para-taekwondo

preparing to debut on the Paralympic programme at Tokyo 2020.As with all Tokyo 2020 test events, the taekwondo

Gimeno made history at the Parapan American Games in Lima last month by becoming the first United States taekwondo

Gimeo, the youngest member of the taekwondo squad, collected bronze in the women's K44 under-49 kilograms

Gimeno, who was born with cerebral palsy, is now looking forward to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics where taekwondo

Wrestler Jordan Burroughs, gymnast Simone Biles and the US wheelchair rugby team earned Best of August honours for Team USA Awards, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee has announced.

competition from snowboarder Chris Corning, water polo player Johnny Hooper, shooter Brian Burrows and Para-taekwondo

Gymnastics star Simone Biles and Wrestler Jordan Burroughs are among the athletes shortlisted for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee's Best of August awards.

male athlete of the month category alongside water polo's Johnny Hooper, shooter Brian Burrows and Para

taekwondo star Evan Medell.Burroughs clinched a third consecutive Pan American Games title in the 74

Lima 2019 gold with 24 goals in the final.Medell won three consecutive matches to become the first Para

taekwondo gold medallist at the Parapan American Games, where the sport made its debut.The female athlete

Chakir Chelbat has been appointed as chairman of World Taekwondo's new Para Taekwondo Committee.

The Swede has been selected by World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue with the new body supporting

the Para Taekwondo Governing Board, Para Taekwondo Technical Committee and Para Taekwondo Referee Committee.It

is a key appointment as taekwondo works towards its debut at the Paralympic Games at Tokyo 2020 next

Chelbat's experience and competency in developing taekwondo worldwide and elevating World Taekwondo's

well-governed and socially responsible federation of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement," a World Taekwondo

treasurer Frederick Lartey Otu has been announced as the country's Chef De Mission for January's African Para

 Rabat was confirmed as host of the inaugural African Para Games when a protocol agreement was signed

GOC, Otu is the vice-president of the National Paralympic Committee of Ghana, President of the Ghana Taekwondo

Federation and vice chairman of the World Taekwondo Africa Para-Taekwondo Committee.Rabat was confirmed

as host of the inaugural African Para Games in April, with a protocol agreement signed in the presence

The Jamaica Paralympic Association (JPA) have promised to keep building in taekwondo before their first-ever

Nine Jamaican Para-athletes were this week announced as competing at the Games in Lima, which take place

Shauna Kay Hines, who will participate in the 58 kilograms K44 class, will become Jamaica's inaugural Para-taekwondo

said: "The Paralympic flame is burning for we have moved from our flagship track and field sport into taekwondo

indeed at an international Games.Shauna Kay Hines, seen here with Usain Bolt, is one of nine Jamaican Para-athletes

Jamaica's team will compete in athletics, but Samuda said they are planning wider representation in Para-sports

Canada will be represented by a total of 151 athletes, including sport assistants, pilots, and guides, at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima.

73 athletes competing at their first ever elite multi-sport Games, including all 13 members of the Para

swimming squad.Of the 92 male Para athletes and 59 females, the oldest is javelin thrower Martha Sandoval

 The youngest athlete is 14-year-old Para swimmer Colleen Cloetta.

 Seven Para badminton athletes and one Para taekwondo representative, Anthony Cappello, are in the

August 1, 2019Chef de Mission is Stephanie Dixon, who won 19 medals from three Paralympic Games in Para