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.
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