Taiwan on Wednesday finished with 15 medals at the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Hong Kong, taking home four gold, five silver and six bronze medals across the age group divisions.
Taiwan ranked third on the medal table after South Korea with 17 golds and the US with eight golds at the five-day competition.
“Your athletes have proven themselves as the best in the world,” World Taekwondo president Choue Chung-won said at the closing ceremony of the martial art contest that was attended by a record 1,727 athletes from around the world.
Photo courtesy of Chen Liao-hsia
On the first day of the competition at the Hong Kong Coliseum on Saturday, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-hsuan beat South Korea’s Seo Chae-won in the Female Junior event to secure a gold medal — her first ever at an international competition.
The next day, Huang Pin-chieh, Kuo Yen-yu and Jian Hsiang-ling won silver for Taiwan in the Female Team Under-30 contest.
Taiwan’s Chang Yi-hsuan and Chen Liao-hsia also bagged medals on day two, winning bronze in the Female Under-17 and Female Under-50 categories respectively.
Photo courtesy of Chen Liao-hsia
On the third day, Liu Kuan-fu clinched silver in the Male Cadet category, while Chen Min-hui, Tsai Wei-en and Lu Yen-chieh took silver in the Female Team Cadet, and Hsu Yu-ting, Chang Yi-hsuan and Liang Chih-ning bagged bronze in the Female Team Junior category.
The winning streak continued for Taiwan on the fourth day, with Lee Jung-chieh snagging silver in the Male Under-65 category, Yeh Chin-shun claiming bronze in the Male Over-65s, and Chang Tzu-lien, Shih Cho-yeh and Wang Po-chun taking bronze in the Male Team Cadets.
On the final day of the competition, Taiwan added three gold medals, won by Teng Yun-jou and Hsieh Min-yu in the Cadet Pair round, Wu Ting-yu and Tsai He-hsuan in the Under-30 Pair match, and Tsai Yu-kuei, Wu Yu-hsuan, Chien Tsen-hao, Wang Yi-han, Chien Yu-chia and Lee Chen-hsuan in the Under-17 Mixed Team event.
Photo courtesy of Lee Cheng-gang
Chiang Chung-hsien, Tsai Tien-cheng and Chuang Chun-kai clinched silver in the Under-50 Team final, while Ke Hsiang-shuo and Hsu Yu-jan came away with bronze in the Under-17 Pairs.
Taiwan’s performance was described as “impressive” by the competition’s organizers.
The next World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships is scheduled for 2026, the organizer’s official Web site showed.
FRUSTRATION: Alcaraz made several unforced errors over four sets against Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, who had never made it past the third round in a major competition Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the fourth round of the French Open after laboring past Damir Dzumhur 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the Friday night session. The second-seeded Spaniard had never before played Dzumhur, a 33-year-old Bosnian who had never been past the third round at any major tournament. “I suffered quite a lot today,” Alcaraz said. “The first two sets was under control, then he started to play more deeply and more aggressively. It was really difficult for me.” Dzumhur hurt his left knee in a fall in the second round, and had treatment on Friday on his right leg during the
‘DREAM’: The 5-0 victory was PSG’s first Champions League title, and the biggest final win by any team in the 70-year history of the top-flight European competition Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League for the first time as Luis Enrique’s brilliant young side outclassed Inter on Saturday in the most one-sided final ever with teenager Desire Doue scoring twice in an astonishing 5-0 victory. Doue supplied the pass for Achraf Hakimi to give PSG an early lead and the 19-year-old went from provider to finisher as his deflected shot doubled the advantage in the 20th minute. Doue scored again just after the hour mark, ending any doubt about the outcome before Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ran away to get the fourth and substitute Senny Mayulu, another teenager, made it five. Inter were
The horn sounded on Wednesday night to signal a third straight trip to the Stanley Cup Final, as the Florida Panthers celebrated merely by hopping over the boards and several heading over to congratulate goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. It was a subdued celebration seemingly more befitting a regular-season win for the reigning Cup champs. “I remember a few years ago, it felt like such an accomplishment from where we were at one point,” forward Matthew Tkachuk said, adding: “It’s all business and we’ve got a bigger goal in mind.” The Panthers closed out the Carolina Hurricanes in five games, with a 5-3 victory in
The Edmonton Oilers on Thursday defeated the Dallas Stars 6-3 to book their place in the Stanley Cup Finals, setting up a repeat of last year’s NHL showpiece against reigning champions the Florida Panthers. The Oilers, bidding to become the first Canadian team to win the NHL’s championship series since the 1993 Montreal Canadiens, head to Florida for Game 1 of the best-of-seven series set for Wednesday. Florida, who are to play in the NHL showpiece for the third straight season, won last year’s title 4-3 to extend Canada’s decades-long Stanley Cup drought. Connor McDavid led Edmonton back to the championship series on
RSS