2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam - Open Qualification Tournament is an international G-1 taekwondo tournament which allows the first three athletes to compete on the 2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam as 9th, 10th and 11th seeds on their respective weight category brackets. [1] [2] The tournament was held from 23-24 November in Wuxi, China.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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58 kg | Jang Jun South Korea | Ebrahim Safari Iran | Chen Xiaoyi China |
68 kg | Boris Krasnov Russia | Abolfazl Yaghoubi Iran | Mirhashem Hosseini Iran |
80 kg | Namgoong Hwan South Korea | Richard Ordemann Norway | Yang Tsung-yeh Chinese Taipei |
+80 kg | Lee Seung-hwan South Korea | Sun Hongyi China | Vedran Golec Croatia |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
49 kg | Ha Min-ah South Korea | Kristina Tomić Croatia | Nahid Kiani Iran |
57 kg | Irem Yaman Turkey | Lim Geum-byeol South Korea | Zhou Lijun China |
67 kg | Guo Yunfei China | Kim Jan-di South Korea | Zhang Mengyu China |
+67 kg | Aleksandra Kowalczuk Poland | Zahra Pouresmaeil Iran | Li Chen China |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | South Korea (KOR) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
2 | China (CHN) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
3 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Russia (RUS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Turkey (TUR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
7 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
9 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (9 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
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