Taekwondo World Championships 1997

The 13th Taekwondo World Championship 1997 took place from November 19 to 23, 1997 in Hong Kong . A total of 16 competitions were held in different weight classes, eight each for men and women. 710 athletes from 80 nations, including 434 men and 276 women, took part in the competitions.

Results

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
- 50 kg	Juan Antonio Ramos	Roberto Cruz	Lee Hou-kun
			Nazim Yilmaz
- 54 kg	Chin Seung-tae	Tsai Yi-ya	Geraldhy Altamirano
			Vo Ludovic
- 58 kg	Huang Chih-hsiung	Mehdi Bibak	Liu Chuang
			Óscar Salazar
- 64 kg	Kim In-dong	Ekrem Boyali	Rafael Carreon
			Hsu Chi-hung
- 70 kg	Tamer Abdel Moneim	Negrel Christophe	Shim Ki-sun
			Zoran Krajcinovic
- 76 kg	Jose Jesus Marquez	Marco Scheiterbauer	Kim Kyong-hun
			Majid Aflaki
- 83 kg	Kim Dong-wan	Alfredo Escobar Osorio	Ruben Montesinos
			Tolis Michael
+ 83 kg	Kim Je-gyoung	Hassan Aslani	Khalid Al-Dosari
			Nelson Saenz Miller

Women

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
- 43 kg	Yang So-hee	Huang Li	Thy Vy Sok
			Kay Poe
- 47 kg	Chi Shu-ju	Yoon Song-hee	Kylie Treadwell
			Mandy Meloon
- 51 kg	Hwang Eun-suk	Roxane Forget	Lauren Burns
			Elizabeth Delgado
- 55 kg	Jung Jae-eun	Carine Zelmonovitch	Lai Hsio-wen
			Raveevadee Pansombut
- 60 kg	Kang Hae-eun	Hung Chia-chun	Luisa Arnanz
			Rent Filipovic
- 65 kg	Cho Hyang-mi	Morfou Drosidou	Marlen Ramirez
			Hsu Chih-ling
- 70 kg	Woo Eun-young	Mounia Bourguigue	Monica Del Real Jaime
			Ireane Ruiz
+ 70 kg	Young Myoung-sook	Natalia Ivanova	Natasa Vezmar
			Chiu Meng-jen

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	South Korea	11	1	2	14th
2	Chinese Taipei	2	2	5	9
3	Spain	2	-	4th	6th
4th	Egypt	1	-	-	1
5	France	-	2	1	3
	Iran	-	2	1	3
7th	People's Republic of China	-	1	1	2
	Cuba	-	1	1	2
	Greece	-	1	1	2
	Turkey	-	1	1	2
11	Canada	-	1	-	1
	Germany	-	1	-	1
	Morocco	-	1	-	1
	Philippines	-	1	-	1
	Russia	-	1	-	1
16	Mexico	-	-	4th	4th
17th	Australia	-	-	3	3
18th	Croatia	-	-	2	2
	United States	-	-	2	2
20th	Ecuador	-	-	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	-	-	1	1
	Thailand	-	-	1	1
	Yugoslavia	-	-	1	1

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• 13th (6th Women's) World Taekwondo Championships, List of medal winners. WTF ( World Taekwondo Federation ), accessed on May 22, 2011 (English). 
• Result of Tournament, World Championships 1997. TAEKWONDO Data, accessed on May 22, 2011 .