2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam

2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam
Venue	Wuxi Taihu International Expo Center
Location	Wuxi, China
Dates	12–16 December
Competitors	128
Total prize money	US$760,000
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The 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Slam is the 2nd edition of the World Taekwondo Grand Slam series taking place from 12-16 December in Wuxi, China. ^{[1] [2]}

Qualifications and seeding position

Seed	Result
No. 1 Seed	2017 Grand Slam champion
No. 2 Seed	2018 Grand Prix Final champion
No. 3 Seed	2017 Grand Slam runner-up
No. 4 Seed	2018 Grand Prix Series 4 champion
No. 5 Seed	2018 Grand Prix Series 3 champion
No. 6 Seed	2018 Grand Prix Series 2 champion
No. 7 Seed	2018 Grand Prix Series 1 champion
No. 8 Seed	1st place athlete of Open Qualification Tournament II
No. 9 Seed	1st place athlete of Open Qualification Tournament I

• In case of one athlete occupying multiple seeding positions, the highest seeding position shall be assigned to the athlete, and vacant seeding positions shall be filled by other seeding athletes only
• The highest Olympic ranking athletes of November, 2018 shall fill up the unoccupied position, but not for seeding.

Non Seeded Athletes are as follows:

• 2nd place of 2018 Qualification Tournament II
• 2nd place of 2018 Qualification Tournament I
• 3rd place of 2018 Qualification Tournament II
• 3rd place of 2018 Qualification Tournament I
• Recommended athlete by WT Technical Committee
• Recommended athlete by WT Technical Committee
• Host Country Athlete

Events schedule

The competition was held from 12 December to 16 December.

Event Date	Weight Division
	Men	Women
12-16 December	-80 kg	-67kg
	+80kg	+67kg
13-16 December	-58kg	-49kg
	-68 kg	-57kg

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
58 kg	Jang Jun  (KOR)	Liang Yushuai  (CHN)	Armin Hadipour  (IRI)
68 kg	Zhao Shuai  (CHN)	Bradly Sinden  (GBR)	Lee Dae-hoon  (KOR)
80 kg	Maksim Khramtsov  (RUS)	Namgoong Hwan  (KOR)	Milad Beigi  (AZE)
+80 kg	Sajjad Mardani  (IRI)	In Kyo-don  (KOR)	Song Zhaoxiang  (CHN)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
49 kg	Panipak Wongpattanakit  (THA)	Ha Min-ah  (KOR)	Tan Xueqin  (CHN)
57 kg	Zhou Lijun  (CHN)	Jade Jones  (GBR)	Lee Ah-reum  (KOR)
67 kg	Lauren Williams  (GBR)	Nur Tatar  (TUR)	Ruth Gbagbi  (CIV)
+67 kg	Bianca Walkden  (GBR)	Madelynn Gorman-Shore  (USA)	Aleksandra Kowalczuk  (POL)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain  (GBR)	2	2	0	4
2	China  (CHN)	2	1	2	5
3	South Korea  (KOR)	1	3	2	6
4	Iran  (IRI)	1	0	1	2
5	Russia  (RUS)	1	0	0	1
	Thailand  (THA)	1	0	0	1
7	Turkey  (TUR)	0	1	0	1
	United States  (USA)	0	1	0	1
9	Azerbaijan  (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	0	0	1	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		8	8	8	24

References

1. "Information". World Taekwondo. Archived from the original on 2018-08-30. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
2. Dept, WT Communications (2018-12-12). "Second World Taekwondo Grand Slam Champions Series explodes into action". World Taekwondo. Archived from the original on 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-12.