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Tokyo 2020 unveils details of Paralympic competition schedule and announces ticket lottery start date

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

Tokyo 2020 has unveiled the event line-up for each session at next year’s Paralympic Games.

tickets will be accepted from residents of Japan from August 22 to September 9 this year.A record 4,400 Para-athletes

the Games and all athletics sessions will include finals, resulting in 168 medal events.Badminton and taekwondo

5 and 6, the last two days of the Games, and medal events will be held during all three days of the taekwondo


British Taekwondo appoints new chief executive as part of recruitment drive

  • Member National Association and Continental Unions News

British Taekwondo has appointed Ian Leafe, a founding director at GB Taekwondo, as its new chief executive

events and successfully delivered multiple World Grand Prix events, a European Championships and a Para-World

My drive has always been to create benefits and opportunities for taekwondo people, giving them access

I’m sad to be leaving GB Taekwondo, but equally I am excited and prepared to take on the challenges and

opportunities that face British Taekwondo.

British Taekwondo is building for the future ©Getty ImagesCommenting on Leafe's appointment, GB Taekwondo


Nepali taekwondo athletes visit Japan in bid to reach Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

  • Para-Taekwondo News

A team of eight taekwondo athletes from Nepal have travelled to Japan for a training session as they

Prefecture.The programme is part of a Memorandum of Understanding that was signed between the Nepal Taekwondo

Association and Miki City Metropolitan to help Nepal para-taekwondo players achieve their objective

to compete at Tokyo 2020.Taekwondo will be making its debut on the Paralympic programme at Tokyo 2020

a regional training centre in a ceremony in Kathmandu.As part of the centre's grand opening, World Taekwondo

President Choue delivered a certificate of recognition to Nepal Taekwondo Association President Prakash


Jordan's Prince Faisal meets with Choue at Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation

  • Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation

Jordan's Prince Faisal bin Hussein met with World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue during a visit to

The pair met at the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation's (THF) Academy which works with youngsters displaced

him represent IOC President Thomas Bach.The pair attended a joint training event held between World Taekwondo

promote humanitarian, peace and social-development initiatives.The pair held a joint event staged by taekwondo

promote their sports.Choue was in Jordan to also attend the Asian Championships for junior, cadet, Para



Amman to stage fifth edition of Asian Para Open Taekwondo Championships

  • Para-Taekwondo News

Jordan's capital Amman is hosting the fifth edition of the Asian Para Open Taekwondo Championships tomorrow

under-75kg and over-75kg with women contesting under-49kg, under-58kg and over-58kg divisions.Jordan Taekwondo

first Olympic medal of any colour by securing gold at Rio 2016 in the men's 68 kilograms.Fifty-thousand taekwondo

 Jordan has witnessed a taekwondo boom since Ahmed Abughaush's Olympic gold medal ©Getty Images"The

Jordan Taekwondo Federation is privileged to be given the honour by World Taekwondo Asia to host the


USOPC announces Best of June finalists for Team USA Awards

  • PASO

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee has announced the finalists for the Team USA Awards Best of June, recognising the outstanding achievements of the country’s athletes.

A total of 10 sports – including archery, BMX, Para archery, Para athletics, rugby sevens, taekwondo,

athletics ace Deja Young, who won the 100m and 200m T46-47 events at the World Para Athletics Grand

Prix in Italian city Grosseto, along with triathlete Katie Zaferes and taekwondo player Anastasija Zolotic.Zaferes

rankings.Zolotic, meanwhile, secured the bronze medal in the women's 57 kilograms division at the World Taekwondo

Grand Prix in Rome, becoming the youngest American taekwondo athlete in history to medal at such an


UK Sport confirms further investment to support Beijing 2022 success

  • Beijing 2022

UK Sport has announced that the sports of ski and snowboard, Para-ski and snowboard, and wheelchair curling

award reflects the potential of the team for Beijing 2022 following their success at the 2019 World Para

We are delighted to be strengthening our support for ski and snowboard and Para-ski and snowboard, and

Menna Fitzpatrick and her guide Jen Kehoe also won two golds at the Para Alpine World Championships and

ImagesAside from winter sport funding, an additional £144,000 ($182,000/€161,000) will be invested in Para-taekwondo


Turkey secure medal salvo at Oceania Para Taekwondo Championships

  • Para-Taekwondo News

Turkey emerged with a five-medal haul at the Oceania Para Taekwondo Championships held in Queensland

bronze medallist Meryem Betul Cavdar sealed a medal of the same colour in the women's K44 49kg.Turkey Taekwondo

those who had supported them.It was a fruitful trip to Queensland for the Turkish team ©Twitter/Turkey Taekwondo

Taekwondo is one of two new Paralympic sports which will be on show at Tokyo 2020.There are two forms



Mongolian Sports Minister signs Memorandum of Understanding to boost Tokyo 2020 hopes

  • OCA

Mongolian athletes bidding to compete at next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo have been given a boost after the country's Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve training environments.

aiming to send at least 40 athletes to qualify for Tokyo 2020 but so far just two shooters and two Para-taekwondo


Sugeno named IPC athlete of the month for May

  • Paralympics

Koji Sugeno has been named Allianz athlete of the month for May after helping Japan win the World Team Cup quad event.

vote.The top three was completed by Italian judoka Carolina Costa, who achieved seven per cent.Dutch Para

different sports.The Netherlands’ Alpine skier Jeroen Kampschreur claimed the January prize, before taekwondo


IPC agree deal with Reddentes Sports for 2020 Paralympics broadcast rights in Asia

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have agreed a deal for Reddentes Sports to distribute broadcast rights in Asia for events up to and including Tokyo 2020. 

Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India.The rights deal includes the 2019 World Para

Swimming Championships, the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships and will culminate with Paralympic

 It also has non-exclusive distribution rights in China, Korea and Japan for the 2019 World Para

Swimming in September in London and 2019 World Para Athletics in Dubai this November.A total of 22 sports

scheduled for Tokyo 2020 where around 4,500 athletes are expected to take part, with badminton and taekwondo


Cappello to represent Canada in taekwondo at Lima 2019 Parapan American Games

  • Para-Taekwondo News

Anthony Cappello will be Canada’s representative in Para taekwondo at the Lima 2019 Parapan American

Para taekwondo will be making its Parapan American Games debut in Peru's capital, a year before it joins

 "You train so hard to get to this moment and I just want to show what Para athletes can do in taekwondo

The 28-year-old Cappello is the country’s top Para taekwondo athlete, winning a silver medal at the 2019

 "I can’t wait to watch Para taekwondo at the Parapan American Games for the first time and cheer

Para taekwondo action will take place at the tail end of Lima 2019 on August 30 and 31.The Parapan American


Four Paralympic champions converge for World Archery Para Championships in ‘s-Hertogenbosch

  • Archery News

the six individual Rio 2016 Paralympic champions will be in the field as the Hyundai World Archery Para

the same thing with her Paralympic version in Tokyo.Meanwhile, in the women’s recurve open, one of Para

Zahra Nemati, will be attempting the same process.But the 34-year-old Iranian archer, who competed in taekwondo

challenge of China’s Wu Chunyan, who caused a major upset by beating her to gold at the 2018 Asian Para

from China's Wu Chunyan as she seeks to defend her women's recurve open title at the World Archery Para