| 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Venue | Nouhad Naufal Stadium |
| Location |  Beirut, Lebanon |
| Dates | 16–18 June 2021 |
| Champions | |
| Men |  South Korea |
| Women | South Korea |
The 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships were the 24th edition of the Asian Taekwondo Championships, and were held from 16 to 18 June 2021 in Nouhad Naufal Stadium, Zouk Mikael, near Beirut, Lebanon. [1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finweight −54 kg | Bae Jun-seo South Korea | Hossein Lotfi  Iran | Mark Khalife Lebanon |
Samat Temirkhan  Kazakhstan | |||
| Flyweight −58 kg | Mohsen Rezaee  Afghanistan | Kim Young-hwan South Korea | Armin Hadipour Iran |
Haroon Khan  Pakistan | |||
| Bantamweight −63 kg | Niyaz Pulatov  Uzbekistan | Zaid Al-Halawani  Jordan | Dashdavaagiin Chinzorig  Mongolia |
| Hikmatullah Zain Afghanistan | |||
| Featherweight −68 kg | Huang Yu-jen  Chinese Taipei | Jin Ho-jun South Korea | Zaid Kareem Jordan |
| Jasurbek Jaysunov Uzbekistan | |||
| Lightweight −74 kg | Kim Seok-bae South Korea | Amir Mohammad Bakhshi Iran | Shakhboz Tusmatov Uzbekistan |
| Mehdi Jalali Iran | |||
| Welterweight −80 kg | Saleh Al-Sharabaty Jordan | Liu Wei-ting Chinese Taipei | Park Woo-hyeok South Korea |
| Nikita Rafalovich Uzbekistan | |||
| Middleweight −87 kg | Lee Seung-hwan South Korea | Smaiyl Duisebay Kazakhstan | Shukhrat Salaev Uzbekistan |
Abdullah Mohammad  Syria | |||
| Heavyweight +87 kg | Sajjad Mardani Iran | Bae Yoon-min South Korea | Ray Rahy Lebanon |
| Shokhrukh Radjabov Uzbekistan |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finweight −46 kg | Negar Esmaeili Iran | Kang Mi-reu South Korea | Fereshteh Khazaei Iran |
| Shokhsanam Azamova Uzbekistan | |||
| Flyweight −49 kg | Trương Thị Kim Tuyền  Vietnam | Madinabonu Mannopova Uzbekistan | Anna El-Haddad Lebanon |
| Kang Bo-ra South Korea | |||
| Bantamweight −53 kg | Charos Kayumova Uzbekistan | Su Po-ya Chinese Taipei | Ghazal Soltani Iran |
Ghazal Kiani  Palestine | |||
| Featherweight −57 kg | Kim Yu-jin South Korea | Trần Thị Ánh Tuyết Vietnam | Chen Yu-chuang Chinese Taipei |
| Nahid Kiani Iran | |||
| Lightweight −62 kg | Feruza Sadikova Uzbekistan | Jeon Chae-eun South Korea | Parisa Javadi Iran |
| Lin Ting-ru Chinese Taipei | |||
| Welterweight −67 kg | Julyana Al-Sadeq Jordan | Melika Mirhosseini Iran | Mokhru Khalimova  Tajikistan |
Maram Fatnassi  Qatar | |||
| Middleweight −73 kg | Myeong Mi-na South Korea | Cansel Deniz Kazakhstan | Zeinab Esmaeili Iran |
| Ma Ting-hsia Chinese Taipei | |||
| Heavyweight +73 kg | Yoon Do-hee South Korea | Kirstie Alora  Philippines | Zahra Pouresmaeil Iran |
| Axaule Yerkassimova Kazakhstan |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 6 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| 2 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 3 | Iran | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 |
| 4 | Jordan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Vietnam | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Afghanistan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Philippines | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Palestine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Qatar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Syria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tajikistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (16 entries) | 16 | 16 | 32 | 64 | |
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