The women's +67kg category was the last on the Taekwondo programme and the fans in the beautiful Grand Palais arena went wild when Laurin defeated Uzbekistan's Svetlana Osipova in two rounds of the final fight.

Laurin, the reigning world -73kg champion and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist, defeated 2024 European champion Lorena Brandl of Germany and 2023 world +73kg champion Nafia Kus of Turkiye on her way to the final, while Osipova swept aside Rebecca McGowan of Great Britain and Dabin Lee of Korea.

Laurin took the first round 3-0. The second round was closer, and Laurin won 3-3 by criteria to claim the gold medal.

Lee and Kus took the bronze medals.

Earlier in the day Arian Salimi of Iran defeated Great Britain’s Caden Cunningham in the final of the men’s +80 kg category.

Cunningham had looked too good in the preliminary rounds, defeating Rio 2016 runner up Abdul Razak Issoufou (Niger), two time world champion Rafael Alba (Cuba) and Rio 2016 gold medallist and reigning world champion in +87 kg category Cheick Sallah Cisse (Côte d'Ivoire). 

Salimi defeated 2022 World champion Carlos Sansores (Mexico) and 2023 World runner-up Ivan Sapina (Croatia) on his way to the final. 

Cunningham won the first round of the final 6-3. But Salimi was much better in the second. The third round was close, but the Iranian won 6-3 to take the gold medal.

Taekwondo veterans Cisse and Alba defeated Sansores and Sapina respectively to take the bronze medals.