Jang Jun and Lee Da-bin, two South Korean taekwondo medal hopefuls at the upcoming Asian Games in China, both want to use their recent slip-ups as fuel. Lee, 26, will be going for her third consecutive Asian Games gold medal in Hangzhou next month. Her first gold came in the lightweight (62 kilograms) event in 2014, but she moved up to heavyweight (+67kg) under the revised weight divisions in 2018 and won gold there .
World Taekwondo has announced the Italian Taekwondo Humanitarian
Foundation has welcomed four Ukrainian athletes, three juniors and one
senior, to the Olympic preparation centre in Rome.
Friday, 7 May 2021
France’s Magda Wiet-Hénin and Italy’s world champion Simone Alessio were among those earning places in the Tokyo 2020 taekwondo competition tonight at the European Qualification Tournament in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
For the 120 athletes competing in this Taekwondo Europe event, from 39 countries, reaching the final is the pathway to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with two qualifiers going forward in each of the categories.
The 25-year-old Wiet-Hénin, who won bronze in the women’s lightweight category when the last Championships were held in Manchester two years ago, secured her first Olympic appearance by reaching the under-67 kilograms final.