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Korea, World Youth Championships Achievement Achievements

She is happy in eight years after Taipei in 2014

Korean Taekwondo expectations achieved a comprehensive championship with men and women at the World Youth Championships.

The Korean Youth Taekwondo Team is the last day of the sixth day of the Sophia 2022 WT Taekwondo Youth Championships hosted by the World Taekwondo Federation (WT) at the Arena Armeets Sofia on the 7th (local time). In the women's Hong Hyo -rim, the gold medal added two silver medals, respectively.

The overall championship with men and women is only eight years after the 10th tournament held in Taipei, Taiwan. In particular, at the 2018 Tunisia Hamma Met Competition, the men and women won only one gold medal.

The 10th male class wins all the weights of 10 male classes, winning five gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal, and winning the championship with 7 gold medals with 720 points. Achieved.

The women's department, who won the third place with one gold medal in the previous competition, won five gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal, and defeated Iran (2 gold, 2 silver = 370 points) with 718 points. He has won the 11th overall championship.

In particular, the women's department achieved 10 consecutive victories from the 1st tournament in Barcelona, Spain in 1996 to the Taiwan Taipei in 2014, but missed the overall championship for two consecutive times since the 2016 Canadian Bernaby competition.

However, in this tournament, it has achieved a dynamic performance that has changed from the previous one, and has achieved the first goal with confident performance, and has been accompanied by men and women in eight years.

On the day, Hong Hyo -rim (Kangwon Dego), the women's club, won the gold medal with a 2-1 win at the end of the classic, Berisaz Andela, the first Montenegro Berisaz Andela.

She first attacked her head attack and attacked her confidently, but rather countered. Hong Hyo -rim, who was not easily solved by the game, was planted before her head attack, and she managed to win two rounds of 5 to 2 and 3 rounds 7-5.

In the semi -finals, the Italian Marge Julia shot a head attack from the start of the first round, and overpowered the score by 14 to 2, and the second round was more powerful and 12 to 0 in 38 seconds. I beat it.

On the day, Ryu Kook -hwan (Han Sung -go), over 78kg, kneeled in the overwhelming ability of Iran Aboyaifaji, the winner of the 2019 World Youth Championship. He was beaten by a strong kick and won the first round to 14 to 4, and the second round was defeated 18: 8 and won a silver medal.

68kg exceeding Subunition (Chungbuk High School) was frustrated by the skill of Turkish Wu Joon Cabe Dar Sudaren, who had been experienced by winning several championships in the finals in the finals. She struggled with her head attack with a big kidney, but she had to be satisfied with the silver medal because she gave the first round to six to 12 and defeated the second round of 7 to 8.

Lee Sung -hoon, executive director of the Korea Middle and High School, who led the overall championship, said, “First of all, both men and women are thrilled to win the overall championship. The last four years ago, the tournament has been defeated. Chairman Lee Kyung -bae made a lot of efforts to strengthen the competitiveness of our youth national team with the motto of “the future of youth.” It has strengthened the development through the selection of the standing army, and since May, the new WT round game rule has been introduced in Korea first. Domestic stadiums have been held in the same environment as the international competition. In the difficult conditions, both the leaders and the players became the original team, which seemed to have achieved more than expected goals. The summit is regained, but it will be more important to keep it, so I will operate a more systematic development system. ”

The World Youth Championships held every two years are corona 19 infections and have been reopened four years after the 2018 Tunisia Hamma Met.

From the age of 15, the 17 -year -old male and female athletes participated in 811 players from 90 countries around the world. Three of them played as a WT refugee team. In Korea, a total of 20 men and women participated.

The Best Player Award for the Gender Male and female awards won the Korean -78kg winner Lee In -hyuk (multi -accident) and the women's 68kg winner Turkey Ujuncarbar Sudaren.

The Best Leadership Award was awarded by Kim Kyung -nam (Gwanakgo) and Ko Seok -hwa (Daejeon High School) of Korea.

The Best Judge Award was awarded by Taiwan's Ikun Judge and Victoria Turik, Canada. Encouragement was received by Mexico, and Bulgaria was received.

The next world youth championship will be held in 2024, two years later.

* Men's overall ranking

Comprehensive 1st place: Korea (gold 5, silver 1, 1 = 720 points)

2nd place: Iran (gold 4 = 509 points)

Overall 3rd: Kazakhstan (1, Dong 4 = 168 points)

Comprehensive 4th: Thailand (silver 2, 1 = 143 points)

Overall 5th: Italy (1 gold = 141 points)

* Women's Comprehensive Rankings

Comprehensive 1st place: Korea (gold 5, silver 1, 1 = 718 points)

2nd place: Iran (gold 2, silver 2 = 370 points)