World Taekwondo Junior Championships

The World Taekwondo Junior Championships is a worldwide bienal championship organized for juniors age category by World Taekwondo, first held in 1996 in Barcelona. The event is contested every two years.[1][2][3]

World Taekwondo Junior Championships

Current event or competition: 2018 World Taekwondo Junior Championships
Competition details
Discipline	Taekwondo
Type	kyourugui, biennial
Organiser	World Taekwondo (WT)
History
First edition	1996 in Barcelona, Spain
Editions	12 (2018)
Most wins	148 medals  South Korea

List of tournaments

Edition	Year	Date	Host city and country	Men's champion	Women's champion
1	1996	27-30 June[4]	Barcelona, Spain	South Korea	South Korea
2	1998	9-13 September[5]	Istanbul, Turkey	South Korea	South Korea
3	2000	15-18 November[6]	Killarney, Ireland	South Korea	South Korea
4	2002	1-6 October[7]	Heraklion, Greece	South Korea	South Korea
5	2004	12-18 June[8]	Suncheon, South Korea	South Korea	South Korea
6	2006	26-30 July[9]	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	South Korea	South Korea
7	2008	8-11 May[10]	İzmir, Turkey	South Korea	South Korea
8	2010	6-9 March[11]	Tijuana, Mexico	Iran	South Korea
9	2012	4-8 April[12]	Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt	South Korea	South Korea
10	2014	23-26 March[13]	Taipei, Chinese Taipei	South Korea	United Kingdom
11	2016	16-20 November[14]	Burnaby, Canada	South Korea	Iran
12	2018	9-13 April[15]	Hammamet, Tunisia	Iran	Russia
13	2020	14-18 October	Sofia, Bulgaria

Medal table

All results from 1996 to 2018[16][3]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	97	24	27	148
2	Iran	24	12	19	55
3	China	11	9	17	37
4	Chinese Taipei	10	21	22	53
5	Turkey	10	19	36	65
6	Russia	10	18	36	64
7	United States	10	8	25	43
8	Spain	7	10	23	40
9	Great Britain	7	3	11	21
10	Vietnam	6	0	6	12
11	Mexico	4	6	21	31
12	France	4	5	14	23
13	Azerbaijan	4	5	7	16
14	Italy	4	3	14	21
15	Thailand	3	13	13	29
16	Jordan	3	8	6	17
17	Greece	3	7	16	26
18	Serbia	3	1	4	8
19	Croatia	2	8	15	25
20	Brazil	2	2	7	11
21	Canada	2	1	17	20
22	Germany	1	14	18	33
23	Kazakhstan	1	4	5	10
24	Ukraine	1	2	7	10
25	Philippines	1	1	8	10
26	Dominican Republic	1	1	0	2
	Puerto Rico	1	1	0	2
	Slovenia	1	1	0	2
29	Tunisia	1	0	3	4
30	Denmark	1	0	1	2
31	Indonesia	1	0	0	1
32	Netherlands	0	6	4	10
33	Poland	0	4	4	8
34	Uzbekistan	0	3	4	7
35	Sweden	0	3	3	6
36	Australia	0	2	6	8
37	Egypt	0	2	0	2
38	Israel	0	1	3	4
	Morocco	0	1	3	4
40	Argentina	0	1	2	3
	Lesotho	0	1	2	3
42	Cuba	0	1	1	2
	Portugal	0	1	1	2
44	Bahamas	0	1	0	1
	Costa Rica	0	1	0	1
	French Polynesia	0	1	0	1
47	Belgium	0	0	8	8
48	Cyprus	0	0	3	3
	Guatemala	0	0	3	3
50	Afghanistan	0	0	2	2
	Ireland	0	0	2	2
	Japan	0	0	2	2
	Lebanon	0	0	2	2
	Malaysia	0	0	2	2
	Qatar	0	0	2	2
	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
57	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Macau	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Niger	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
Totals (69 nations)		236	236	472	944

See also

• World Taekwondo Championships
• World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships

References

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External links

• Official World Taekwondo website
• Official World Taekwondo Junior championships 2018 website