Taekwondo World Championships 1999

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The 14th Taekwondo World Championship 1999 took place from June 2 to 6, 1999 in the Canadian city of Edmonton . The venue was the Alberta Butterdome . A total of 16 competitions were held in different weight classes, eight each for men and women. 550 athletes from 66 nations, including 320 men and 230 women, took part in the competitions. For the first time, the World Cup also represented an opportunity to qualify for the Olympic Games , after Taekwondo was added to the Olympic program for Sydney in 2000 .

Results

Men

Weight class gold silver bronze
- 54 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Min Byeong-seok PhilippinesPhilippines Roberto Cruz Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Yulis Mercedes
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Wei Chun Chen
- 58 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoon Jong-il DenmarkDenmark Abror Haider MoroccoMorocco Younes Sekkat
VietnamVietnam Nhat Thong Ho
- 62 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Ko Dae-kyu TurkeyTurkey Ahmet Evcimen United StatesUnited States Mark Lopez
SpainSpain Ron Ivan
- 67 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea No Hyun-goo DenmarkDenmark Jesper Roesen SpainSpain Francisco Zas
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Hsu Chi-hung
- 72 kg IranIran Hadi Saei Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Byung-uk ChileChile Sergio Cardenas
SpainSpain Rosendo Alonso
- 78 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Jang Jong-o TurkeyTurkey Bahri Tanrıkulu MexicoMexico Rodrigo Martinez
United StatesUnited States Joshua Coleman
- 84 kg IranIran Majid Aflaki TurkeyTurkey Yasin Yagiz GermanyGermany Faissal Ebnoutalib
KazakhstanKazakhstan Adikhan Saginolykov
+ 84 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Moon Dae-sung FranceFrance Mictar Dounbia AustraliaAustralia Daniel Trenton
SpainSpain Ruben Montesinos

Women

Weight class gold silver bronze
- 47 kg SpainSpain Belen Asensio Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoon Song-hee FranceFrance France Pouzoulet
TurkeyTurkey Kadriye Selimogou
- 51 kg Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chi Shu-ju Korea SouthSouth Korea Shim Hye-young SpainSpain Jennifer Delgado
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yuan Guiru
- 55 kg China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Su Korea SouthSouth Korea Jung Jae-eun Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Meng Mei-chun
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Christiana Bach
- 59 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Kang Hae-eun MexicoMexico Iridia Salazar CanadaCanada Gael Texier
SpainSpain Sonya Reyes
- 63 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Hyang-mi China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Huijing AustraliaAustralia Lisa O'Keefe
RussiaRussia Ekaterina Noskova
- 67 kg SpainSpain Elena Benitez NetherlandsNetherlands Mirjam Muskens Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Wan-chen
CanadaCanada Barbara Pak
- 72 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Yoon-kyung SpainSpain Ibone Lallana TurkeyTurkey Filliz Just Aydin
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chen Zhong
+ 72 kg Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Kao Ching-yi CanadaCanada Dominique Bosshart BelgiumBelgium Rase Laurence
RussiaRussia Maria Koniahina

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 9 4th - 13
2 SpainSpain Spain 2 1 6th 9
3 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 2 - 4th 6th
4th IranIran Iran 2 - - 2
5 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 1 1 2 4th
6th TurkeyTurkey Turkey - 3 2 5
7th DenmarkDenmark Denmark - 2 - 2
8th CanadaCanada Canada - 1 2 3
9 FranceFrance France - 1 1 2
MexicoMexico Mexico - 1 1 2
11 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - 1 - 1
PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines - 1 - 1
13 AustraliaAustralia Australia - - 2 2
RussiaRussia Russia - - 2 2
United StatesUnited States United States - - 2 2
16 BelgiumBelgium Belgium - - 1 1
ChileChile Chile - - 1 1
Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Dominican Republic - - 1 1
GermanyGermany Germany - - 1 1
MoroccoMorocco Morocco - - 1 1
KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan - - 1 1
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland - - 1 1
VietnamVietnam Vietnam - - 1 1

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