2007 World Taekwondo Championships

2007 World Taekwondo Championships
Venue	Changping Gymnasium
Location	Beijing, China
Dates	18–22 May 2007
Champions
Men	South Korea
Women	South Korea

The 2007 World Taekwondo Championships were the 18th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Beijing, China from May 18 to May 22, 2007.[1][2]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−54 kg)	Choi Yeon-ho  South Korea	Chutchawal Khawlaor  Thailand	Aslan Batykulov  Kazakhstan
			Rodolfo Osornio  Mexico
Flyweight (−58 kg)	Juan Antonio Ramos  Spain	Guillermo Pérez  Mexico	Tamer Bayoumi  Egypt
			Lee Sun-jae  South Korea
Bantamweight (−62 kg)	Filip Grgić  Croatia	Nacha Punthong  Thailand	Rafik Zohri  Netherlands
			Marcel Wenceslau  Brazil
Featherweight (−67 kg)	Gessler Viera  Cuba	Omid Gholamzadeh  Iran	Song Myeong-seob  South Korea
			Dennis Bekkers  Netherlands
Lightweight (−72 kg)	Sung Yu-chi  Chinese Taipei	Nesar Ahmad Bahave  Afghanistan	Tommy Mollet  Netherlands
			Hadi Saei  Iran
Welterweight (−78 kg)	Steven López  United States	Jang Chang-ha  South Korea	Sébastien Michaud  Canada
			Balázs Tóth  Hungary
Middleweight (−84 kg)	Bahri Tanrıkulu  Turkey	Tavakkul Bayramov  Azerbaijan	Park Min-soo  South Korea
			Arman Chilmanov  Kazakhstan
Heavyweight (+84 kg)	Daba Modibo Keïta  Mali	Morteza Rostami  Iran	Nam Yun-bae  South Korea
			Abdelkader Zrouri  Morocco

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−47 kg)	Wu Jingyu  China	Yaowapa Boorapolchai  Thailand	Yang Shu-chun  Chinese Taipei
			Charlotte Craig  United States
Flyweight (−51 kg)	Brigitte Yagüe  Spain	Ana Zaninović  Croatia	Yajaira Peguero  Dominican Republic
			Nazgul Tazhigulova  Kazakhstan
Bantamweight (−55 kg)	Jung Jin-hee  South Korea	Tseng Yi-hsuan  Chinese Taipei	Yaimara Rosario  Cuba
			Andrea Rica  Spain
Featherweight (−59 kg)	Lee Sung-hye  South Korea	Hamide Bıkçın  Turkey	Diana López  United States
			Watcharaporn Dongnoi  Thailand
Lightweight (−63 kg)	Karine Sergerie  Canada	Park Hye-mi  South Korea	Mona Solheim  Norway
			Nia Abdallah  United States
Welterweight (−67 kg)	Hwang Kyung-seon  South Korea	Gwladys Épangue  France	Helena Fromm  Germany
			Sandra Šarić  Croatia
Middleweight (−72 kg)	María Espinoza  Mexico	Lee In-jong  South Korea	Luo Wei  China
			Natália Falavigna  Brazil
Heavyweight (+72 kg)	Chen Zhong  China	Han Jin-sun  South Korea	Tsui Fang-hsuan  Chinese Taipei
			Daniela Castrignano  Italy

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	4	4	4	12
2	China	2	0	1	3
	Spain	2	0	1	3
4	Chinese Taipei	1	1	2	4
5	Croatia	1	1	1	3
	Mexico	1	1	1	3
7	Turkey	1	1	0	2
8	United States	1	0	3	4
9	Canada	1	0	1	2
	Cuba	1	0	1	2
11	Mali	1	0	0	1
12	Thailand	0	3	1	4
13	Iran	0	2	1	3
14	Afghanistan	0	1	0	1
	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
17	Kazakhstan	0	0	3	3
	Netherlands	0	0	3	3
19	Brazil	0	0	2	2
20	Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		16	16	32	64

Team ranking

Men Rank Team Points 1  South Korea 53 2  Iran 45 3  Spain 39 4  Chinese Taipei 34 5  Mexico 33 6  Thailand 33 7  United States 31 8  Azerbaijan 30 9  Turkey 29 10  Kazakhstan 28

Women Rank Team Points 1  South Korea 73 2  China 45 3  Canada 36 4  Spain 35 5  Chinese Taipei 35 6  Mexico 34 7  Croatia 29 8  United States 28 9  Turkey 27 10  Brazil 26

References

1. "Korean Athletes Seek to Dominate World Taekwondo Matches in Beijing". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
2. "China Out to Dominate Taekwondo". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2011-12-10.

External links

• Official Website Archived 2009-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
• WTF Medal WinnersArchived 2009-09-27 at the Wayback Machine