By Tom Degun December 11 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board has today made the historic decision at a meeting in Guangzhou in China to increase the number of sports at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games from 20 to 22 with the Paratriathlon and Paracanoe added to the existing programme.

In July this year the seven sports of badminton, canoe, golf, powerchair football, taekwondo, triathlon

authority of the IPC, attended the meeting in Guangzhou which was held prior to the start of the Asian Para

January 1 - South Korea has won the right to host the 20th WTF World Taekwondo Championships in 2011

  A four-member Korean delegation, headed by Jin Bang Yang, secretary general of the Korean Taekwondo

Association, made a presentation at the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Council meeting in

  Russia also earned the right to host the 2nd WTF World Para-Taekwondo Championships in St.

  Athanasios Pragalos, the President of the European Taekwondo Union, and Ji Ho Choi, President

Union; Roger Piarulli, President of the French Taekwondo Union; Ide Issaka, President of the Niger Taekwondo

January 1 - South Korea has won the right to host the 20th WTF World Taekwondo Championships in 2011

  A four-member Korean delegation, headed by Jin Bang Yang, secretary general of the Korean Taekwondo

Association, made a presentation at the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Council meeting in

  Russia also earned the right to host the 2nd WTF World Para-Taekwondo Championships in St.

  Athanasios Pragalos, the President of the European Taekwondo Union, and Ji Ho Choi, President

Union; Roger Piarulli, President of the French Taekwondo Union; Ide Issaka, President of the Niger Taekwondo

June 24 - Choue Chung-won, the chairman of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), is confident his plans

world’s first poomsae [a demonstration of a sequence of moves] championship and its first international taekwondo

The Para-Taekwondo Championship was held for the first time earlier this month in Baku, Azerbaijan, and

Other Choue initiatives include overhauling the scoring and judging in taekwondo, which is the world's

Electronic protectors, which were used for the first time in WTF events at the Para-Taekwondo and World

“We will send coaches to such countries so that taekwondo can take deep roots and develop.  

June 24 - Choue Chung-won, the chairman of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), is confident his plans

world’s first poomsae [a demonstration of a sequence of moves] championship and its first international taekwondo

The Para-Taekwondo Championship was held for the first time earlier this month in Baku, Azerbaijan, and

Other Choue initiatives include overhauling the scoring and judging in taekwondo, which is the world's

Electronic protectors, which were used for the first time in WTF events at the Para-Taekwondo and World

“We will send coaches to such countries so that taekwondo can take deep roots and develop.  

The first ever World Para-Taekwondo Championships are due to begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, tomorrow, an

The inaugural WTF World Para-Taekwondo Championships also draw a special interest from the global taekwondo

The WTF aims to include taekwondo in the official program of the Paralympic Games.

that about 30 countries, including Britain, from five continents will participate in the 1st WTF World Para-Taekwondo

The new WTF competition rules will apply to the one-day Para-Taekwondo Championships with two modifications

The Olympic weight divisions will apply to the Para-Taekwondo Championships: -58kg, -68kg, -80kg and

May 6 - The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has opened new offices in Lausanne at a ceremony attended

He said: "Our new vision to reorganise the WTF into a dual structure is to bring taekwondo closer to

"Our Seoul office will concentrate on taekwondo development, technical issues and finance.

"The sport of taekwondo has become more dynamic."

Poomsae Championships, Para-taekwondo Championships, and professional taekwondo competitions, etc.

and the World Taekwondo Academy.