World Para Taekwondo Championships 2019
Oct 2018—The World Para Taekwondo Championships will be held on Feb 2019 in Turkey.
The 2019 World Para Taekwondo Championships to be held in Antalya, Turkey on February 5-6, 2019. Kyorugi is the competition format for the Paralympic Games. However, it is also our aim to make taekwondo an all-inclusive sport, regardless of ability. Poomsae for athletes with an intellectual impairment (P20) and athletes with a motor impairment (P30) will be included on the program for the 2019 World Para Taekwondo Championships in Turkey. The Para Taekwondo Kyorugi K40 Sport Classes (K41, K42, K43 & K44) are for athletes with a physical impairment. The 2019 World Para Taekwondo Championships is a G10 ranking event for Para Taekwondo Kyorugi. The Para Taekwondo Poomsae P30 Sport Classes (P31, P32, P33 & P34) competitions for athletes with a motor impairment. The 2019 World Para Taekwondo Championships is NOT a world ranking event for the P30 sport classes as world ranking for the P30 Sport Classes will be introduced in 2018. The WT Para Taekwondo Competition Rules as of April 4, 2018 will be implemented for the Para Taekwondo competitions of the K40 Sport Classes at the 2019 World Para Taekwondo Championships. Meanwhile, the first WT World Para-Taekwondo Championships was held in 2009 in Baku, Azerbaijan on the occasion of the 2009 WT World Taekwondo Team Championships. Since 2009, the WT World Para-Taekwondo Championships has been held an additional six times, in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2010, in Santa Cruz, Aruba in 2012, in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2013, in Moscow, Russia in 2014 and most recently in Samsun, Turkey in 2015, London 2017.
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