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Taekwondo Helps UN Celebrate International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
NEW YORK, United States (March 28, 2017)
Staff at the United Nations Headquarters tried out taekwondo as the combat sport was presented to the world body in a wide-ranging demonstration and seminar as part of a celebratory event for the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.
The event was jointly organized by the Permanent Mission of Monaco to the United Nations together with the international organization Peace and Sport within the framework of the 4th edition of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, celebrated on April 6. The event was the latest example of cooperation between Peace and Sport and the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) after the two organizations, and the WTF’s Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in November 2016.
A comprehensive children’s taekwondo demonstration team, composed of 15 children aged between 10 and 14, performed poomsae and mixed gender tag-team competition team followed by freestyle poomsae performances of the US national poomsae athletes.
After remarks from the WTF and THF President Chungwon Choue, who was addressing the UN in New York for a second time in two years having announced the foundation of the THF there in 2015, a three-round demonstration kyorugi match took place. The match was fought between two of the sport’s finest players, Great Britain’s double Olympic gold medalist Jade Jones, and World Taekwondo Junior Championships’ gold medalist Skylar Park from Canada.
Mr. Joel Bouzou, President of Peace and Sport praised continued efforts of the World Taekwondo Federation on humanitarian activities, pointing out that taekwondo was the first sport who allowed refugee athletes to take part in the Qualification Tournament for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace has been observed by the UN every year since 2014.
Source: WTF
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