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.
Mohammad Bagheri Motamed is a former Iranian professional taekwondo athlete. He won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships in ۱ Copenhagen, Denmark and the Olympic Silver Medal at the London 2012 Olympics. ۲
Jade Louise Jones is a Welsh taekwondo athlete. She is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women's 57 kg category, and the 2019 World champion, 2016, 2018 and 2021 European champion and 2015 European Games champion at the same weight. In 2012, she won Britain's first taekwondo Olympic gold medal in this category. Jones was at the time the reigning Youth Olympic champion in the girls' 55 kg category, winning gold for Great Britain in 2010.
Nguyễn Thị Hoài Thu is a Vietnamese taekwondo practitioner. She is a three-time medalist for the women's featherweight division at the Southeast Asian Games. She also captured two silver medals in the 53 and 59 kg classes at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, losing out to South Korea's Lee Sung-Hye and Thailand's Sarita Phongsri, respectively.
Irina Kaydashova is an Uzbek taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's featherweight category. She became one of the first taekwondo fighters in history to represent Uzbekistan at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and later attained a quarterfinal finish in the 53-kg division at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
Nootcharin Sukkhongdumnoen is a Thai taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's featherweight category. She claimed the silver medal in the 51-kg division at the 1998 Asian Games in her native Bangkok, retrieved a bronze at the 2003 World Taekwondo Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and later attained a fifth-place finish in the 58-kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing her nation Thailand.
Panipak "Tennis" Wongpattanakit is a Thai taekwondo athlete. She is currently the top-ranked athlete in the women's 49kg.
Hatice Kübra İlgün is a Turkish taekwondo practitioner. She has won a silver medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in the featherweight division.
Lee Ah-reum is a South Korean taekwondo athlete. She attended Seoul Physical Education High School and Korea National Sport University. She won the gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games in the women's featherweight category, defeating Mayu Hamada of Japan. She won the gold medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in the women's featherweight category, beating the Olympic champion Jade Jones in the semi-finals and Hatice Kübra İlgün of Turkey in the final. She has a history of participating in the Asian games.
Lauren Williams is a British taekwondo athlete who represents Great Britain. Williams won her third consecutive European championship Gold medal in 2019 in Bari, Italy. She holds these titles in the -67 kg weight category. 2014/2016 Williams won the Junior World championships consecutively. In December 2018, Williams won the Grand Slam Series held in Wuxi China. Williams has 2 Gold medals from the Grand Prix Series with multiple podium finishes.
Luo Zongshi is a Chinese taekwondo athlete. She won the gold medal in the women's featherweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico. She also won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games on the women's featherweight event.
Skylar M.-Y. Park is a Canadian taekwondo athlete. She won the gold medal at the 2018 Pan American Taekwondo Championships on the women's 57 kg weight category. She represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 57 kg weight category. Her father is Korean and her mother is Italian with Chilean heritage.
Svetlana Osipova is an Uzbekistani taekwondo practitioner. She won the gold medal in the women's heavyweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico. She also won the gold medal in the women's +73 kg event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey. In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's +73 kg event at the Military World Games held in Wuhan, China.
Nada Laaraj is a Moroccan taekwondo practitioner. She is a gold medalist in the women's 57 kg event at the African Games, the Islamic Solidarity Games and the African Taekwondo Championships. She also represented Morocco at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Tekiath Ben Yessouf is an Nigerien taekwondo competitor. She represented Niger at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Laetitia Aoun is a Lebanese taekwondo practitioner. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 53 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is also a bronze medalist at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey.
Pauline Louise Lopez is a Filipino taekwondo practitioner. She is a two-time gold medalist at the Southeast Asian Games and a bronze medalist at the Asian Games.
Vipawan Siripornpermsak is a Thai taekwondo practitioner. In 2018, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Patrycja Adamkiewicz is a Polish taekwondo athlete.
Lo Chia-ling is a taekwondo athlete from Taiwan. After twice winning the gold medal at the World Taekwondo Junior Championships, she reached the Round of 16 at 2019 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's featherweight.
