South Korea competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens,from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's fourteenth appearance at the Olympics,except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its support for the United States boycott. The Korean Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1992. A total of 264 athletes,145 men and 119 women,competed in 25 sports.
Steven López is an American taekwondo competitor,a 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medalist and a 2008 Olympic bronze medalist and 4th Dan in taekwondo. In 2001,he won the Lightweight Taekwondo World Championship,and in 2003 he won the Welterweight Taekwondo World Championship which he has since won in 2005,2007 and 2009 making him the first Taekwondo fighter to win 5 World Championships. With 2 Olympic titles,5 titles in taekwondo world championships and 1 title in taekwondo world cup he is the most titled champion after Hadi Saei who earns 9 world class titles.
USA Taekwondo (USAT) is the national governing body (NGB) of Taekwondo for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and thus the United States' official Member National Association of World Taekwondo USAT has complete authority over all decisions regarding US national junior and senior team selections for World Taekwondo events,including the Summer Olympic Games Taekwondo competition event.
Park Dong-keun,also known as D. K. Park,is a South Korean Grandmaster of taekwondo. He holds the title "Grandmaster," the rank of 9th dan in taekwondo,and was Korea's only undefeated taekwondo fighter in more than 200 International championship competition. Park introduced the martial art of taekwondo to Thailand in 1966,before settling in the United States of America,and was the taekwondo coach of both the US National Team and the US Olympic Team.
Kyongwon Ahn,9th dan (Kukkiwon),is a South Korean taekwondo master who founded the United Taekwondo Association (UTA) in the United States.
Mark López Mendieta is an American taekwondo practitioner. Mark represented the United States in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing,China. He advanced to the men's -68 kg Gold Medal Match where he lost to Korea's Tae-Jin Son on a last second hit,giving him the silver medal. Along with his brother Steven and his sister Diana,he won a gold medal at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships.
Aaron Arthur Cook is a taekwondo athlete who has represented Great Britain,the Isle of Man,and Moldova. He has been ranked the number one in the men's −80 kg division on several occasions. He is a three-time European champion having won the −80 kg title at the European Taekwondo Championships in 2010,2012 representing Great Britain and 2014 representing the Isle of Man,and was the world junior champion in the −78 kg division in 2008.
Diana López is an American Olympic Taekwondo competitor from Sugar Land,Texas. She represented the United States at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing,where she won a bronze medal.
Guillermo Pérez Sandoval is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic gold medal winner. Pérez stands at 171 cm and weighs 58 kg.
Tae-hong Choi was a grandmaster in taekwondo,winner of multiple martial arts titles and a teacher of thousands of students in Oregon.
Arlene Limas is an American taekwondo practitioner and multiple international gold medalist of Mexican and Polish descent.
Hadi Saei is an Iranian councilor and former taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history and the most titled champion in this sport by winning 9 world class titles . Earlier in his career and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,Saei had won the Bronze medal. He was elected as member of City Council of Tehran in 2006 local elections and was reelected in 2013 but lost the 2017 election. He is one of the three most medal winners olympians in the sport of Taekwondo.
South Korea competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,from July 27 to August 12,2012. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Olympics,having missed the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its support for the United States boycott. The Korean Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1992. A total of 248 athletes,135 men and 113 women,competed in 22 sports.
Melissa Pagnotta is a Canadian taekwondo fighter. Pagnotta participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,becoming the first Ontario representative in that sport. She qualified to the 2016 Olympics by winning Silver at the Pan Am Olympic Qualification event in Aguascalientes Mexico. Pagnotta saw success at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara where she won gold in the lightweight class. She won a silver at the 2015 World Grand Prix in Moscow losing a close match to Korea in sudden death. She has won the Pan Am Championships 4x and Commonwealth Championships 3x. She is coached by Canadian National team coach Edward Fong in Richmond Hill,Ontario.
Park,Yeon-Hwan is a South Korean Grandmaster of Taekwondo. He currently has earned a ninth-degree black belt and holds the title kwan jang-nim (Grandmaster) under the direction of the Kukkiwon. Park was the undefeated Korean national champion of Tae Kwon Do from 1971 to 1975 and the former coach of the U.S. Olympic and Pan-American Tae Kwon Do team.
Michael J. O'Malley,is an American Taekwondo athlete and instructor.
Gaël Texier is a Canadian taekwondo athlete and coach. In addition to being the Canadian Women's Taekwondo Champion for five years,Texier won bronze medals at the World Championships (1999) and Panamerican Championships and a silver medal at the Francophone World Cup (2002).
Taekwondo is one of the most popular and practiced martial arts in India. It is characterized by punching and kicking techniques,with emphasis on head-height kicks,jumping spinning kicks,and fast kicking techniques. The literal translation for tae kwon do is "kicking," "punching," and "the art or way of."
Edival Marques Quirino Pontes also known as Netinho is a Brazilian taekwondo athlete. He won the silver medal in the men's lightweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara,Mexico. He won a gold medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in the under 63 kg weight category.
Garth Cooley is a taekwondo Grandmaster and black belt.
