World Paralympic Taekwondo ★ Taekwondo Promotion Foundation WT Starting today, the world's para taekwondo training camp will be held
Jul 01, 2025
|
|
The camp, which will be held for 10 days from the 1st at the WT Central Training Center, Muju Taekwondo Center in Jeollabuk-do, will feature four athletes from each weight class in all weight classes of the Paralympics as K44 (paralyzed or amputated under the elbow). A large number of world-class taekwondo paralipians, including Leonor Angelica Espinosa Karansa (Peru), the only female 47kg who has two Paralympic gold medals in K44, and Imamadin Khalilov (Azerbaijan), the men's 70kg gold medalist at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, will visit Korea. As prestigious leaders such as Brazil's coach Rodrigo Ferla, who performed well at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics, are together, it is expected to contribute to the shared growth of para taekwondo.
This training camp will provide theoretical lectures on practical and physical training, such as competing with Taekwondo skills, mental training, anti-doping, sports grade classification process, and WT Para Taekwondo development. There will also be joint training with Korean national athletes, including Joo Jung-hoon, a two-time bronze medalist at the Tokyo-Paris Paralympics, and Korean cultural experiences.
Kim Joong-heon, chairman of the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation, said, `The Taekwondo Center is the only WT Central Training Center in the world and will play a pivotal role in the continuous development of Taekwondo.' `We are confident that it will be an opportunity for world-class para taekwondo athletes to grow further through training at the Taekwondo Center, and we will continue our efforts to attract interest in para taekwondo" expressed his determination.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
