Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games

Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games
Taekwondo pictogram
Venue	Contact Sports Center
Start date	October 21, 2023 (2023-10-21)
End date	October 24, 2023 (2023-10-24)
No. of events	11 (5 men, 5 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	136 from 26 nations
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Taekwondo competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile are scheduled to be held between October 21 and 24, 2023 at the Contact Sports Center, located in Santiago. ^{[1] [2]}

13 medal events are scheduled to be contested. Ten of these events are in Kyorugi (five per gender). In March 2023, PanamSports added a men's and women's team events to the sports program in the Kyorugi division. ^[3] A total of 136 athletes are scheduled to compete. ^[4]

Qualification

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification

A total of up to 136 taekwondo athletes will qualify to compete. Each nation may enter a maximum of 10 athletes (eight in Kyorugi and two in Poomsae). The host nation, Chile, automatically qualifies the maximum number of athletes (8) and is entered in each event. There will also eight wild card spots awarded in Kyorugi and two in Poomsae. The spots will be awarded at the qualification tournament held in Rio de Janeiro in March 2023. ^[4]

Participating nations

A total of 26 countries qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

•   Argentina  (7)
•   Barbados  (1)
•   Bolivia  (2)
•   Brazil  (8)
•   Canada  (9)
•   Chile  (8)
•   Colombia  (7)
•   Costa Rica  (3)
•   Cuba  (8)
•   Dominican Republic  (6)
•   Ecuador  (8)
•   El Salvador  (1)
•   Guyana  (1)
•   Haiti  (2)
•   Honduras  (2)
•   Independent Athletes Team  (4)
•   Jamaica  (1)
•   Mexico  (12)
•   Nicaragua  (3)
•   Panama  (1)
•   Peru  (6)
•   Puerto Rico  (8)
•   Suriname  (1)
•   United States  (12)
•   Uruguay  (2)
•   Venezuela  (7)

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Chile)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Mexico	6	1	3	10
2	United States	4	1	3	8
3	Brazil	1	1	3	5
4	Dominican Republic	1	1	0	2
5	Canada	1	0	2	3
6	Colombia	0	3	1	4
7	Nicaragua	0	2	0	2
8	Argentina	0	1	3	4
9	Chile*	0	1	1	2
	Haiti	0	1	1	2
11	Independent Athletes Team	0	1	0	1
12	Puerto Rico	0	0	3	3
13	Cuba	0	0	2	2
	Ecuador	0	0	2	2
15	Panama	0	0	1	1
	Peru	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		13	13	26	52

Kyorugi

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
58 kg details	Brandon Plaza   Mexico	Lucas Guzmán   Argentina	Jhon Garrido   Colombia
			Paulo Ricardo Melo   Brazil
68 kg details	Khalfani Harris   United States	Bernardo Pié   Dominican Republic	Tae-Ku Park   Canada
			José Luis Acuña   Argentina
80 kg details	Carl Nickolas   United States	Miguel Trejos   Colombia	Kelvin Calderón   Cuba
			Lucas Ostapiv   Brazil
+80 kg details	Carlos Sansores   Mexico	Jonathan Healy   United States	Agustín Alves   Argentina
			Marc-André Bergeron   Canada
Team details	Brazil Edival Pontes Maicon Andrade Paulo Ricardo Melo	Chile Joaquín Churchill Ignacio Morales Aarón Contreras	Mexico Uriel Gómez Carlos Navarro Bryan Salazar
			Ecuador Adrián Miranda José Carlos Nieto Julio César Arroyo

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
49 kg details	Daniela Souza   Mexico	Andrea Ramírez   Colombia	Giulia Sendra   Argentina
			Melina Daniel   United States
57 kg details	Skylar Park   Canada	Maria Clara Pacheco   Brazil	Caitlyn Cox   United States
			Carolena Carstens   Panama
67 kg details	Leslie Soltero   Mexico	Ava Soon Lee   Haiti	Claudia Gallardo   Chile
			Kristina Teachout   United States
+67 kg details	Madelynn Gorman-Shore   United States	Gloria Mosquera   Colombia	Aliyah Shipman   Haiti
			Victoria Heredia   Mexico
Team details	Dominican Republic Katherine Rodríguez Madelyn Rodríguez Mayerlin Mejía	Mexico Victoria Heredia Fabiola Villegas Leslie Soltero	Brazil Caroline Santos Maria Clara Pacheco Sandy Macedo
			Cuba Arlettys Acosta Frislaidis Martínez Marlyn Pérez

Poomsae

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual details	William Arroyo   Mexico	Elian Ortega   Nicaragua	Luis Colón   Puerto Rico
			Hugo del Castillo   Peru
Women's individual details	Kaitlyn Reclusado   United States	María Higueros   Independent Athletes Team	Soo Lee Kim   Mexico
			Arelis Medina   Puerto Rico
Mixed pairs details	Mexico William Arroyo Soo Lee Kim	Nicaragua Elian Ortega Ingrid Darce	Puerto Rico Luis Colón Arelis Medina
			Ecuador Mario Troya Katlen Jerves

See also

• Taekwondo at the 2023 Parapan American Games
• Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Santiago 2023 Officially Confirms Sports Venues". www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
2. "Sport Calendar Pan American Games" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
3. Palmer, Dan (22 March 2023). "Team taekwondo event added to Santiago 2023 programme". Inside the Games . Dunsar Media. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
4. "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

External links

• Results book