WTF Taekwondo World Championships

The WT Taekwondo World Championships are the international championships in Taekwondo held by the World Taekwondo (WT) . They have been held every two years since 1973, the year WT was founded. Since the origins of Taekwondo lie in Korea and the WT was founded there, the first world championship took place in Seoul . South Korea is also by far the most successful team at the previous world championships.

Weight classes

Until 1985 only competitions for men were held, since 1987 women have also been fighting for medals. The following weight classes are being held today at the World Championships:

Classes (with indication of the weight limits)
Surname	Women	Men
Fin weight	up to 46 kg	up to 54 kg
Flyweight	up to 49 kg	up to 58 kg
Bantamweight	up to 53 kg	up to 63 kg
Featherweight	up to 57 kg	up to 68 kg
lightweight	up to 62 kg	up to 74 kg
Welterweight	up to 67 kg	up to 80 kg
medium weight	up to 73 kg	up to 87 kg
Heavyweight	over 73 kg	over 87 kg

In addition to competitive Taekwondo (full contact), World Cups in Form Taekwondo have been held since 2006 - Poomse at the WT, Hyeong at the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF).

Venues

No.	Period	venue	items
1	25-27 May 1973	Seoul	Details
2	28–31 August 1975	Seoul	Details
3	15-17 September 1977	Chicago	Details
4th	25.-28. October 1979	Stuttgart	Details
5	24.-27. February 1982	Guayaquil	Details
6th	20.-23. October 1983	Copenhagen	Details
7th	4-8 September 1985	Seoul	Details
8th	7-11 October 1987	Barcelona	Details
9	9-14 October 1989	Seoul	Details
10	October 29 - November 3, 1991	Athens	Details
11	19. – 21. August 1993	new York	Details
12	17.-21. November 1995	Manila	Details
13	19.-23. November 1997	Hong Kong	Details
14th	2-6 June 1999	Edmonton	Details
15th	1-7 November 2001	Jeju-si	Details
16	24.-28. September 2003	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Details
17th	13-17 April 2005	Madrid	Details
18th	18.-22. May 2007	Beijing	Details
19th	14.-18. October 2009	Copenhagen	Details
20th	1-6 May 2011	Gyeongju	Details
21st	15-21 July 2013	Puebla	Details
22nd	12-19 May 2015	Chelyabinsk	Details
23	24.-30. June 2017	Muju	Details
24	15-19 May 2019	Manchester	Details

Eternal medal table

Status: July 2019

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	South Korea	171	32	36	239
2	Spain	22nd	26th	63	111
3	Turkey	15th	20th	32	67
4th	Chinese Taipei	14th	27	38	79
5	United States	14th	21st	50	85
6th	Iran	14th	21st	22nd	57
7th	People's Republic of China	13	13	16	42
8th	United Kingdom	7th	8th	8th	23
9	Germany	6th	12	34	52
10	France	6th	11	17th	34
11	Thailand	6th	6th	15th	27
12	Mexico	4th	29	35	68
13	Netherlands	4th	5	16	25th
14th	Cuba	4th	3	8th	15th
15th	Azerbaijan	4th	1	10	15th
16	Russia	3	13	18th	34
17th	Denmark	2	7th	3	12
18th	Croatia	2	5	17th	24
19th	Serbia	2	-	4th	6th
20th	Mali	2	-	2	4th
21st	Canada	1	11	14th	26th
22nd	Brazil	1	6th	12	19th
23	Italy	1	5	16	22nd
24	Uzbekistan	1	5	1	7th
25th	Greece	1	4th	10	15th
26th	Egypt	1	3	11	15th
27	Ivory Coast	1	3	11	15th
28	Ecuador	1	2	1	4th
29	Australia	1	1	18th	20th
30th	Japan	1	1	5	7th
31	Belgium	1	1	3	5
32	Gabon	1	-	2	3
33	Niger	1	-	-	1
34	Philippines	-	6th	6th	12
35	Morocco	-	3	7th	10
36	Jordan	-	2	4th	6th
37	Afghanistan	-	2	2	4th
37	Puerto Rico	-	2	2	4th
39	Chile	-	2	1	3
40	Indonesia	-	2	-	2
41	Vietnam	-	1	5	6th
42	Venezuela	-	1	4th	5
42	Argentina	-	1	4th	5
44	Portugal	-	1	1	2
45	Bahrain	-	1	-	1
45	Guam	-	1	-	1
45	Ukraine	-	1	-	1
48	Kazakhstan	-	-	8th	8th
49	Sweden	-	-	7th	7th
50	Dominican Republic	-	-	6th	6th
51	Belarus	-	-	4th	4th
52	Colombia	-	-	3	3
	Norway	-	-	3	3
	Saudi Arabia	-	-	3	3
	Switzerland	-	-	3	3
	Senegal	-	-	3	3
	Slovenia	-	-	3	3
	Tunisia	-	-	3	3
	Hungary	-	-	3	3
60	Finland	-	-	2	2
	Guatemala	-	-	2	2
	Malaysia	-	-	2	2
	Moldova	-	-	2	2
	Nepal	-	-	2	2
	Cyprus	-	-	2	2
	Yugoslavia	-	-	2	2
	Latvia	-	-	2	2
67	Bulgaria	-	-	1	1
	Costa Rica	-	-	1	1
	Israel	-	-	1	1
	Nigeria	-	-	1	1
	Austria	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Uganda	-	-	1	1
Total		328	328	656	1312

Most successful medalists

The following Taekwondoin have won at least three gold medals at world championships.

space	Surname	country	From	To				total
01	Steven Lopez	United States	2001	2009	5	-	-	5
02	Choi Yeon-ho	South Korea	2001	2009	4th	-	-	4th
03	Brigitte Yagüe	Spain	2001	2011	3	2	1	6th
04th	Bahri Tanrıkulu	Turkey	1999	2009	3	1	1	5
05	Cho Hyang-mi	South Korea	1991	1999	3	-	1	4th
06th	Chin Seung-tae	South Korea	1993	1997	3	-	-	3
	Young Myoung-sook	South Korea	1993	1997	3	-	-	3
	Kim Je-gyoung	South Korea	1993	1997	3	-	-	3
	Kim Tae-hun	South Korea	2013	2017	3	-	-	3
	Kim Yong-ki	South Korea	1977	1982	3	-	-	3
	Yang Dae-seung	South Korea	1987	1991	3	-	-	3

Web links

• Official homepage of the WT (English)
• www.sport-komplett.de
• www.iat.uni-leipzig.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Championships: Number of winners by nation . Retrieved July 10, 2019.