Taekwondo World Championships 1979

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The 4th Taekwondo World Championship 1979 took place from October 26th to 28th, 1979 in Sindelfingen near Stuttgart . It was the first Taekwondo World Championship in Europe. A total of 10 competitions in different weight classes were held. There were no competitions for women yet. 453 athletes from 38 countries took part.

Results

Men

Weight class gold silver bronze
- 48 kg Korea Sud 1949South Korea Lee Seung-kyung MexicoMexico Jaime de Pablos Spain 1977Spain Emilio Azofra
United StatesUnited States Dae-Sung Lee
- 52 kg Korea Sud 1949South Korea Yang Ki-mo Spain 1977Spain Jesús Benito MoroccoMorocco Bachir Uazzani
MexicoMexico Ramiro Guzman
- 56 kg Korea Sud 1949South Korea Kim Yong-ki MexicoMexico Pablo Arizmendi United StatesUnited States Chung-Sik Choi
Germany BRBR Germany Dragan Veljović
- 60 kg Korea Sud 1949South Korea Yim Dai-taik MexicoMexico Reynaldo Salazar Germany BRBR Germany Bernd Bartsch
AustraliaAustralia Martin Hall
- 64 kg Korea Sud 1949South Korea Park Oh-sung United StatesUnited States Greg Fears NetherlandsNetherlands Henk Horsten
Germany BRBR Germany Hubert candlesticks
- 68 kg MexicoMexico Oscar Mendiola United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lindsay Lawrence Germany BRBR Germany Helmut Gärtner
Korea Sud 1949South Korea Kim Moo-chun
- 73 kg Germany BRBR Germany Rainer Müller MexicoMexico Guillermo Aragonez NetherlandsNetherlands Hans Brugmans
Korea Sud 1949South Korea Park Chung-ho
- 78 kg Korea Sud 1949South Korea Kim Sang-chun Germany BRBR Germany Richard Schulz Ivory CoastIvory Coast Byl Be Yao
United StatesUnited States John Holloway
- 84 kg Korea Sud 1949South Korea Chan Chung Germany BRBR Germany Eugene Nefedow Ivory CoastIvory Coast Cissé Abdoulaye
United StatesUnited States Scott Rohr
+ 84 kg NetherlandsNetherlands Sjef Vos United StatesUnited States Thomas Seabourne MexicoMexico Carlos Obregón
AustraliaAustralia Keith Whittemore

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 Korea Sud 1949South Korea South Korea 7th - 2 9
2 MexicoMexico Mexico 1 4th 2 7th
3 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 1 2 4th 7th
4th NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1 - 2 3
5 United StatesUnited States United States - 2 4th 6th
6th Spain 1977Spain Spain - 1 1 2
7th United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom - 1 - 1
8th AustraliaAustralia Australia - - 2 2
Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast - - 2 2
10 MoroccoMorocco Morocco - - 1 1

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