2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam

2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam
Venue	Wuxi Taihu International Expo Center
Location	Wuxi, China
Dates	30 December–20 January 2018
Competitors	96
Total prize money	US$760,000
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The 2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam is the 1st edition of the World Taekwondo Grand Slam series. ^[1]

Qualifications and seeding position

Seed	Result
No. 1 Seed	2016 Olympic Champion
No. 2 Seed	2017 World Champion (heavier weight category)
No. 3 Seed	2017 World Champion (lighter weight category)
No. 4 Seed	2017 Grand Prix Final Champion
No. 5 Seed	2017 Grand Prix Series 1 Champion
No. 6 Seed	2017 Grand Prix Series 2 Champion
No. 7 Seed	2017 Grand Prix Series 3 Champion
No. 8 Seed	2016 Grand Prix Final Champion
No. 9 Seed	1st place athlete of Open Qualification Tournament
No. 10 Seed	2nd place athlete of Open Qualification Tournament
No. 11 Seed	3rd place athlete of Open Qualification Tournament
No. 12 Seed	Host Country Place Athlete

• In case of multi qualified athlete(s) as well as withdrawal of invitation among No.1 to No. 8 seeded athletes, the higher seeding position shall be assigned to athlete as mandatory.
• No.9 to No. 12 seeding are fixed position, and replacement for No.9 to No. 11 will be decided by the rules of Qualification Tournament for Wuxi 2017 WT Grand Slam Champions Series
• In case of multi qualified athlete(s) as well as withdrawal of invitation among No.1 to No.8 seeded athletes, following replacement rule shall apply:

1st Replacement	By The Next Highest Ranked Athlete in Olympic Ranking of November 2017
2nd Replacement	By The Next Highest Ranked Athlete in Olympic Ranking of November 2017
3rd Replacement	By Recommendation of WT Technical Committee
4th Replacement	By Recommendation of WT Technical Committee
5th Replacement or beyond	By The Next Highest Ranked Athlete in Olympic Ranking of November 2017

Events schedule

The competition was held every saturday since 30 December 2017 to 20 January 2018. ^[2]

Event Date	Weight Division
	Men	Women
30 December 2017	-80 kg	+67kg
6 January 2018	-68 kg	-67kg
13 January 2018	+80 kg	-49kg
20 January 2018	-58 kg	-57kg

Medal summary

The team championships were also held in the same arena but for a different competition, called the World Cup Team Championships. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
58 kg	Kim Tae-hun   South Korea	Jang Jun   South Korea	Mikhail Artamonov   Russia
68 kg	Lee Dae-hoon   South Korea	Zhao Shuai   China	Alexey Denisenko   Russia
80 kg	Maksim Khramtsov   Russia	Namgoong Hwan   South Korea	Milad Beigi   Azerbaijan
+80 kg	In Kyo-don   South Korea	Roman Kuznetsov   Russia	Sajjad Mardani   Iran

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
49 kg	Kim So-hui   South Korea	Vanja Stanković   Serbia	Wenren Yuntao   China
57 kg	Irem Yaman   Turkey	Zhou Lijun   China	Luo Zongshi   China
67 kg	Ruth Gbagbi   Ivory Coast	Guo Yunfei   China	Oh Hye-ri   South Korea
+67 kg	Bianca Walkden   Great Britain	Jackie Galloway   United States	Nafia Kus   Turkey

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea  (KOR)	4	2	1	7
2	Russia  (RUS)	1	1	2	4
3	Turkey  (TUR)	1	0	1	2
4	Great Britain  (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	1	0	0	1
6	China  (CHN)	0	3	2	5
7	Serbia  (SRB)	0	1	0	1
	United States  (USA)	0	1	0	1
9	Azerbaijan  (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Iran  (IRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		8	8	8	24

References

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