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World Taekwondo Grand Prix

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World Taekwondo Grand Prix
Current event or competition:
2024 World Taekwondo Grand Prix
Competition details
DisciplineTaekwondo
Typekyourugui
OrganiserWorld Taekwondo (WT)
History
First edition2013 in Manchester, United Kingdom
Editions10 (2024)
Most wins South Korea

The World Taekwondo Grand Prix is a taekwondo competition introduced by the World Taekwondo Federation in 2013 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic taekwondo tournament. It consists of four competitions per year in each Olympic weight category event. Olympic events occur at approximately half the weight classes as WTF-organised tournaments.

Venues

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The most common format of the event has been a series of three Grand Prix, followed by a Grand Final. The first Grand Prix in 2013, and the event in 2016, were single leg competitions, while the 2018 edition had a 4th Grand Prix leg before the Grand Final. The original Grand Prix was held in Manchester, England, recognising the sport's popularity in the United Kingdom, and Manchester remains the most visited venue, with 5 Grand Prix events, while the United Kingdom is also the most visited country, with six events. Russia, Mexico and Italy have also hosted multiple legs.

The 2020 event was to be a single event in Cancún, but was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic, while the 2021 event was abandoned for the same reason, without being officially arranged. The event returned in Rome for an eighth season in 2022.

Year GP 1 GP 2 GP 3 GP 4 GP Final
2013 United Kingdom Manchester
2014 China Suzhou Kazakhstan Astana United Kingdom Manchester Mexico Querétaro
2015 Russia Moscow Turkey Samsun United Kingdom Manchester Mexico Mexico City
2016 Azerbaijan Baku
2017 Russia Moscow Morocco Rabat United Kingdom London Ivory Coast Abidjan
2018 Italy Rome Russia Moscow Taiwan Taoyuan United Kingdom Manchester United Arab Emirates Fujairah
2019 Italy Rome Japan Chiba Bulgaria Sofia Russia Moscow
2020 Mexico Cancún(Canceled)
2022 Italy Rome France Paris United Kingdom Manchester Saudi Arabia Riyadh
2023 Italy Rome France Paris China Taiyuan United Kingdom Manchester
2024 China Taiyuan
2025 United States Charlotte Thailand Bangkok South Korea Muju tbd[1]

All-time medal table

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All-time medal count as World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final Manchester 2023

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 South Korea534152146
2 China28152871
3 Russia26172467
4 Great Britain24282880
5 Iran13132854
6 Turkey12113255
7 Thailand124319
8 Ivory Coast114924
9 Spain10202050
10 France891734
11 Jordan54716
12 Italy51612
13 Croatia481729
14 Uzbekistan461424
15 Serbia35917
16 Chinese Taipei34916
17 Tunisia34310
18 United States331723
19 Brazil25815
20 Sweden2338
21 Azerbaijan21710
22 Germany2169
23 Poland2136
24 Mexico1101324
25 Egypt16714
26 Belgium15511
27 Canada1359
28 Hungary1214
29 Gabon1124
 Netherlands1124
31 Isle of Man1113
 Norway1113
 Portugal1113
34 Cuba1102
35 Kazakhstan1012
Individual Neutral Athletes a1012
36 Moldova0314
37 Morocco0123
38 Greece0112
 Slovenia0112
40 Puerto Rico0101
41 Japan0066
42 Argentina0055
43 Australia0044
44 Belarus0033
 North Macedonia0033
46 Ireland0022
47 Colombia0011
 Czech Republic0011
 Dominican Republic0011
 Latvia0011
 Mali0011
 Nigeria0011
 Panama0011
 Ukraine0011
 Vietnam0011
Totals (55 entries)250247427924

Multiple gold medalists

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The table shows those who have won at least three gold medals. As of World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final Manchester 2023

Men
Athlete Country Total
Lee Dae-hoon  South Korea 12 3 2 17
Cheick Sallah Cissé  Ivory Coast 7 3 6 16
Vladislav Larin  Russia 7 3 0 10
Jang Jun  South Korea 7 2 2 11
Kim Tae-hun  South Korea 6 4 5 15
Aleksey Denisenko  Russia 6 3 1 10
Maksim Khramtsov  Russia 5 4 1 10
In Kyo-don  South Korea 4 6 1 11
Farzan Ashourzadeh  Iran 3 3 2 8
Mehdi Khodabakhshi  Iran 3 1 1 5
Simone Alessio  Italy 3 1 0 4
Women
Athlete Country Total
Panipak Wongpattanakit  Thailand 12 2 1 15
Jade Jones  Great Britain 10 7 1 18
Zheng Shuyin  China 8 1 4 13
Luo Zongshi  China 6 1 1 8
Bianca Walkden  Great Britain 5 8 3 16
Kim So-hui  South Korea 5 6 1 12
Wu Jingyu  China 5 2 0 7
Lee Da-bin  South Korea 5 1 5 11
Eva Calvo  Spain 4 3 0 7
Ruth Gbagbi  Ivory Coast 4 1 3 8
Magda Wiet-Henin  France 3 1 4 8

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "[World Taekwondo] Extraordinary World Taekwondo Council meeting hosted durin." m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
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