Taipei: Team Taiwan finished with a total of 15 medals at the conclusion of the 2024 World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Hong Kong on Wednesday, taking home four gold, five silver, and six bronze medals. Taiwan ranked third on the medal table, after South Korea with 17 golds and the United States with eight golds, in the five-day competition that was held Nov. 30 to Dec. 4.
According to Focus Taiwan, “Your athletes have proven themselves as the best in the world,” World Taekwondo President Choue Chung-won said Wednesday at the closing ceremony of the Korean martial art contest that was attended by a record 1,727 athletes from around the world.
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 in 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 Chan
g Yi-hsuan and Chen Liao-hsia also bagged medals on day two of the competition, winning bronze in the Female Under 17 and Under 50 categories, respectively.
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, Liang bagged bronze in the Female Team Junior. The winning streak continued for Taiwan on the fourth day of the competition, with Lee Jung-chieh snagging silver in the Male Under 65 category, Yeh Chin-shun claiming bronze in the Male Over 65, and Chang Tzu-lien, Shih Cho-yeh, and Wang Po-chun taking bronze in the Male Team Cadet.
On the final day of the competition on Wednesday, Taiwan snagged 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. Chiang
Chung-hsien, Tsai Tien-cheng, and Chuang Chun-kai also clinched silver in the Under 50 Team final, while Ke Hsiang-shuo and Hsu Yu-jan came away with bronze in the Under 17 Pair event.
Team Taiwan’s performance was described as “impressive” by the competition’s organizers. The next World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships will be held in 2026, according to organizer’s official website.