Taekwondo World Championships 1977

The 3rd Taekwondo World Championship in 1977 took place from September 15 to 17, 1977 in Chicago . It was the first world championship that was not held in South Korea , the country of origin of Taekwondo . A total of 8 competitions in different weight classes were held. There were no competitions for women yet. 720 athletes from 46 countries took part.

Results

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
- 48 kg	Song Ki-yul	Jaime de Pablos	Turgay Ertugrul
			Sheu Jiomshi
- 53 kg	Ha Suk-kwang	Jorge Ramírez	Francisco García
			Moritz von Macher
- 58 kg	Kim Yong-ki	Hour Waeishing	Reynaldo Salazar
			Helmut Stoppe
- 63 kg	Park Chung-ho	Greg Fears	Frédéric Kovassi
			Peter Salm
- 68 kg	Hwang Mingder	Choi Jae-chun	Eduardo Merchán
			Ernie Ryes
- 74 kg	Yoo Yong-hap	Théophile Dossou	Rainer Müller
			Manuel Jurado
- 80 kg	Hur song	James Kirby	Carlos Obregón
			Manuel Salcedo
+ 80 kg	Ahn Jang-shik	Lin Yingpeng	John Holloway
			Dirk Jung

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	South Korea	7th	1	-	8th
2	People's Republic of China	1	-	-	1
3	United States	-	2	2	4th
4th	Chinese Taipei	-	2	1	3
5	Mexico	-	1	4th	5
6th	Ivory Coast	-	1	1	2
7th	Ecuador	-	1	-	1
8th	BR Germany	-	-	4th	4th
9	Spain	-	-	3	3
10	Netherlands	-	-	1	1

source

• WTF results page (accessed November 22, 2010)