2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam

The 2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam is the 1st edition of the World Taekwondo Grand Slam series.[1]

2017 World Taekwondo Grand Slam
Venue	Wuxi Taihu International Expo Center
Location	Wuxi, China
Dates	30 December–20 January 2018
Competitors	96
Total prize money	US$760,000

Qualifications and seeding position

Seed	Result
No. 1 Seed	2016 Olympic Champion
No. 2 Seed	2017 World Champion (heavier weight category)
No. 3 Seed	2017 World Champion (lighter weight category)
No. 4 Seed	2017 Grand Prix Final Champion
No. 5 Seed	2017 Grand Prix Series 1 Champion
No. 6 Seed	2017 Grand Prix Series 2 Champion
No. 7 Seed	2017 Grand Prix Series 3 Champion
No. 8 Seed	2016 Grand Prix Final Champion
No. 9 Seed	1st place athlete of Open Qualification Tournament
No. 10 Seed	2nd place athlete of Open Qualification Tournament
No. 11 Seed	3rd place athlete of Open Qualification Tournament
No. 12 Seed	Host Country Place Athlete

• In case of multi qualified athlete(s) as well as withdrawal of invitation among No.1 to No. 8 seeded athletes, the higher seeding position shall be assigned to athlete as mandatory.
• No.9 to No. 12 seeding are fixed position, and replacement for No.9 to No. 11 will be decided by the rules of Qualification Tournament for Wuxi 2017 WT Grand Slam Champions Series
• In case of multi qualified athlete(s) as well as withdrawal of invitation among No.1 to No.8 seeded athletes, following replacement rule shall apply:

1st Replacement	By The Next Highest Ranked Athlete in Olympic Ranking of November 2017
2nd Replacement	By The Next Highest Ranked Athlete in Olympic Ranking of November 2017
3rd Replacement	By Recommendation of WT Technical Committee
4th Replacement	By Recommendation of WT Technical Committee
5th Replacement or beyond	By The Next Highest Ranked Athlete in Olympic Ranking of November 2017

Events schedule

The competition was held every saturday since 30 December 2017 to 20 January 2018.[2]

Event Date	Weight Division
	Men	Women
30 December 2017	-80 kg	+67kg
6 January 2018	-68 kg	-67kg
13 January 2018	+80 kg	-49kg
20 January 2018	-58 kg	-57kg

Medal summary

The team championships were also held in the same arena but for a different competition, called the World Cup Team Championships.[3][4][5]

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
58 kg	Kim Tae-hun  South Korea	Jang Jun  South Korea	Mikhail Artamonov  Russia
68 kg	Lee Dae-hoon  South Korea	Zhao Shuai  China	Alexey Denisenko  Russia
80 kg	Maksim Khramtsov  Russia	Namgoong Hwan  South Korea	Milad Beigi  Azerbaijan
+80 kg	In Kyo-don  South Korea	Roman Kuznetsov  Russia	Sajjad Mardani  Iran

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
49 kg	Kim So-hui  South Korea	Vanja Stanković  Serbia	Wenren Yuntao  China
57 kg	Irem Yaman  Turkey	Zhou Lijun  China	Luo Zongshi  China
67 kg	Ruth Gbagbi  Ivory Coast	Guo Yunfei  China	Oh Hye-ri  South Korea
+67 kg	Bianca Walkden  Great Britain	Jackie Galloway  United States	Nafia Kus  Turkey

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	4	2	1	7
2	Russia (RUS)	1	1	2	4
3	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Ivory Coast (CIV)	1	0	0	1
6	China (CHN)	0	3	2	5
7	Serbia (SRB)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
9	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		8	8	8	24

References

1. "Information - World Taekwondo". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
2. "Information - World Taekwondo". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
3. "results - World Taekwondo". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
4. "TaekwondoData". TaekwondoData. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
5. "results - World Taekwondo". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2018-02-06.