Taiwanese athletes won a total of four gold and two silver medals at the Taekwondo Australian Open held in Brisbane as the senior events concluded on Saturday.
Pan Kuei-en, Huang Yu-jui, Hung Jiun-yi and Chen Liang-hsi, who competed in the men’s 74kg, 68kg, 80kg and 87kg divisions respectively, won gold.
Pan, after securing his second straight gold in the National Intercollegiate Athletic Games in May, defeated fellow Taiwanese Hsu Hao-yu, in the final.
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Pan also won gold in the Oceania WT President’s Cup in the same division two days earlier.
Hsu, who lost to Pan, settled for silver.
Hsu said he was satisfied with the result considering that he switched to a heavier weight division and sprained his ankle before competing.
“I thought I might not be in a good condition, but I was actually more focused because of the injury,” he said.
Su Po-ya, an Olympian at the 2020 Tokyo Games, also won a silver in the women’s 53kg.
She advanced to the final match after defeating China’s Wang Xiaolu 2-0 in the semi-final.
However, Su was unable to maintain her winning streak in the final against Dunya Ali M Abutaleb of Saudi Arabia and lost 1-2.
She lost to the same opponent in the semi-final of the Asian Taekwondo Championships in Da Nang, Vietnam, in May.
The Taekwondo Australian Open was held on Saturday and yesterday, right after the two-day WT President’s Cup. Both competitions are G-2 games, meaning participants obtain ranking points based on their results.
Results at G-20 events — such as the Olympic Games — give contestants the highest ranking-points, while G-1 games reward fewer ranking points.
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