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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Korean martial art "TKD" redirects here. For other uses, see TKD (disambiguation). For the 1994 video game, see Taekwon-Do (video game). This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This ...
The quest to bring taekwondo to the Olympics began in 1974 in the United States when taekwondo was admitted into the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). [2] One of the AAU's primary roles is to establish standards for various sports nationwide. The World Taekwondo Federation's technical standards were adopted by the AAU Taekwondo group.
Flagpoles and flags of the World Taekwondo and of the Korean Taekwondo Association at the Kukkiwon in Seoul, South Korea. World Taekwondo (WT; formerly the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) until June 2017) is an international federation governing the sport of Taekwondo and is a member of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF).
Choi Hong-hi (Korean: 최홍희; 9 November 1918 – 15 June 2002) was a South Korean Army general, and martial artist who was an important figure in the history of the Korean martial art of Taekwondo, albeit controversial due to his introduction of taekwondo to North Korea.
He began training in the martial arts in 1946, training after school for five nights each week. [6] Nam's training continued in the Chung Do Kwan under Lee Won-kuk . [ 6 ] It has been claimed that Nam introduced Bok-man Kim (a pioneering master and one of the technical founders of taekwondo, working with Choi) to taekkyeon in 1948, [ 7 ] but ...
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art which emerged in the mid-twentieth century, and has subsequently become one of the most widely practiced martial arts in the world. The art is characterized by powerful hand strikes and kicks, which are used for unarmed self-defense or combat, or in organized sport competitions such as the Olympic Games.
The taekwondo Paralympian made history in 2021 in Tokyo, becoming the first Afghan woman to compete in an international sporting event since the Taliban took back control of her country as U.S ...
The competition format for taekwondo is a single-elimination tournament to determine the gold and silver medal winners, and a repechage is used to determine the bronze medal winner(s). [ 4 ] in 2000 and 2004 , a single repechage final determined the sole bronze medal winner, but a rule change in 2008 created two repechage finals that allowed ...