In the men's competition, Tokyo 2020 champion Vito Dell'Aquilla once again showed his high ambitions by defeating all his opponents in the men's 58 kg Olympic category, while fellow 58 kg Olympian Omar Salim of Hungary competed in the 63 kg category and claimed the third European title of his career. 

Tokyo 2020 runner-up and reigning world champion in the men's 68 kg Bradley Sinden of Great Britain defeated Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist and reigning 63 kg world champion Hakan Recber of Turkey in the men's 68kg final.

Reigning Olympic champion Maksim Khramtsov finished third in the men's -80 kg. Great Britain's Caden Cunningham, another Olympic hopeful, won gold in the men's +87 kg category.

In the women's competition, two-time world champion Lena Stojkovic (Croatia) won her career’s 4th continental title in the women’s 46 kg category. Tokyo 2020 runner-up Adriana Cerezo (Spain) defeated reigning world champion Merve Dincel (Turkey) to avenge her defeat in the semi-finals of the 2023 World Championships.

Two Olympic medallists and Paris 2024 athletes in the 57 kg category, Tatiana Minina (Individual Neutral Athlete) and Kimia Alizadeh (Bulgaria), won gold medals in the non-Olympic categories. Minina was the best in the 53 kg category, Alizadeh dominated the 62 kg category, while two-time Olympic champion Jade Jones of Great Britain reached the final of the 57kg category but lost to Croatia's Nika Karabatic.

Belgium's 19-year-old rising star Sarah Chaari stunned reigning world champion Magda Wiet-Henin of France in the final of the 67 kg category. Another world champion from France, Althea Laurin, won the gold medal in the 73 kg category.

Germany's Lorena Brandl became European champion after defeating reigning world champion Nafia Kus of Turkey in the final of the +73 kg category. World runner-up Rebecca McGowan of Great Britain finished third.

Turkish athletes won nine medals, but finished second on the medal table with two golds. Croatia topped the medal table with three gold medals, while Great Britain finished third with two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

All the medallists of the European Taekwondo Championships

Men’s 54 kg
1. Furkan Camoglu (Turkiye)
2. Konstantinos Dimitropulos (Greece)
3. Josip Teskera (Croatia)
3. Maksym Manekov (Ukraine)

Men’s 58 kg
1. Vito Dell’Aquila (Italy)
2. Lev Korneev (Serbia)
3. Gashim Magomedov (Azerbaijan)
3. Adrian Vicente (Spain)

Men’s 63 kg
1. Omar Gergely Salim (Hungary)
2. Hakan Recber (Turkiye)
3. Volodymyr Bystrov (Ukraine)
3.Tobias Hyttel (Denmark)

Men’s 68 kg
1. Bradley Sinden (Great Britain)
2. Ilia Danilov (Individual Neutral Athlete)
3. Simur Mirzoiev (Ukraine)
3. Levente Mark Jozsa (Hungary)

Men’s 74 kg
1. Daniel Quesada Barrera (Spain)
2. Zurab Kintsurashvili (Georgia)
3. Javad Aghayev (Azerbaijan)
3. Charalampos Flouskounis (Greece)

Men’s 80 kg
1. Toni Kanaet (Croatia)
2. Kostiantyn Kostenevych (Ukraine)
3. Nedzad Husic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
3. Maksim Khramtsov (Individual Neutral Athlete)

Men’s 87 kg
1. Enbiya Taha Bicer (Turkiye)
2. Andre Richard Ordemann (Norway)
3. Vasileios Tholiotis (Greece)
3. Artem Harbar (Ukraine)

Men’s +87 kg
1. Caden Cunningham (Great Britain)
2. Ivan Garcia Martinez (Spain)
3. Krystian Haremza (Poland)
3. Emre Kutalmis Atesli (Turkiye)

Women’s 46 kg
1. Lena Stojkovic (Croatia)
2. Dzejla Makas (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
3. Viktoriia Nahurna (Ukraine)
3. Phoenix Goodman (Great Britain)

Women’s 49 kg
1. Adriana Cerezo Iglesias (Spain)
2. Merve Dincel Kavurat (Turkiye)
3. Supharada Kisskalt (Germany)
3. Bruna Duvancic (Croatia)

Women’s 53 kg
1. Tatiana Minina (Individual Neutral Athlete)
2. Zeynep Taskin (Turkiye)
3. Andrea Bokan (Serbia)
3. Ada Avdagic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

Women’s 57 kg
1. Nika Karabatic (Croatia)
2. Jade Jones (Great Britain)
3. Luana Martoni (Hungary)
3. Fani Tzeli (Greece)

Women’s 62 kg
1. Kimia Alizadeh Zenozi (Bulgaria)
2. Aaliyah Powell (Great Britain)
3. Ivana Arelic (Croatia)
3. Petra Stolbova (Czech Republic)

Women’s 67 kg
1. Sarah Chaari (Belgium)
2. Magda Wiet-Henin (France)
3. Aleksandra Perisic (Serbia)
3. Jolanta Tardiva (Latvia)

Women’s 73 kg
1. Althea Laurin (France)
2. Sude Yaren Uzuncavdar (Turkiye)
3. Matea Jelic (Croatia)
3. Yanna Schneider (Germany)

Women’s +73 kg
1. Lorena Brandl (Germany)
2. Nafia Kus Aydin (Turkiye)
3. Kristina Adebaio (Individual Neutral Athlete)
3. Rebecca McGowan (Great Britain)