World Taekwondo Championships
| Current event or competition: 2023 World Taekwondo Championships | |
| Competition details | |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Taekwondo |
| Type | kyourugui, biennial |
| Organiser | World Taekwondo (WT) |
| History | |
| First edition | 1973 in Seoul, South Korea |
| Editions | 26 (2023) |
| Most wins |  South Korea (176 golds) |
The World Taekwondo Championship is held every two years by World Taekwondo.[1]
Competitions[edit]
1 Wuxi, China, was originally selected to host the 2021 World Taekwondo Championships. Due to the impact of the Global COVID-19 pandemic, Wuxi gave up hosting the World Taekwondo Championship. In Early 2022, Guadalajara, Mexico was selected as a replacement host and the 2025 championship was scheduled to be held in Wuxi, China, instead.
All-time medal table[edit]
Updated after the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships.
- a^ At the 2023 World Championships, athletes from Russia and Belarus in accordance with sanctions imposed following by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine participated as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), their medals were not included in the official medal table.
- b^ At the 2015 World Championships, athletes from Belgium competed as World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) due to the suspension of the country's Taekwondo Federation.
Multiple gold medalists[edit]
The tables shows those who have won at least 3 gold medals at the World Championships. Boldface denotes active taekwondo practitioners and highest medal count among all taekwondo practitioners (including these who not included in these tables) per type.
Men[edit]
| Rank | Taekwondo practitioner | Country | Weights | From | To | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steven López |  United States |
72 kg / 78 kg / 80 kg | 2001 | 2009 | 5 | – | – | 5 |
| 2 | Choi Yeon-ho | South Korea |
54 kg | 2001 | 2009 | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| Jeong Kook-hyun | South Korea |
73 kg / 76 kg | 1982 | 1987 | 4 | – | – | 4 | |
| 4 | Bahri Tanrıkulu |  Turkey |
78 kg / 84 kg / 87 kg | 1999 | 2009 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Lee Dae-hoon | South Korea |
63 kg / 68 kg | 2011 | 2019 | 3 | – | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Jin Seung-tae | South Korea |
50 kg / 54 kg | 1993 | 1997 | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| Kim Je-kyoung | South Korea |
+83 kg | 1993 | 1997 | 3 | – | – | 3 | |
| Kim Tae-hun | South Korea |
54 kg | 2013 | 2017 | 3 | – | – | 3 | |
| Kim Yong-ki | South Korea |
58 kg / 56 kg | 1977 | 1982 | 3 | – | – | 3 | |
| Yang Dae-seung | South Korea |
70 kg | 1987 | 1991 | 3 | – | – | 3 |
Women[edit]
| Rank | Taekwondo practitioner | Country | Weights | From | To | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brigitte Yagüe |  Spain |
51 kg / 47 kg / 49 kg | 2001 | 2011 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Cho Hyang-mi | South Korea |
65 kg / 63 kg | 1991 | 1999 | 3 | – | 1 | 4 |
| Bianca Cook (Walkden) |  Great Britain |
+73 kg | 2015 | 2023 | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Jung Myoung-sook | South Korea |
+70 kg | 1993 | 1997 | 3 | – | – | 3 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "WTF Medal Winners". World Taekwondo Federation. Retrieved 29 May 2011.