The World Taekwondo Grand Prix is a taekwondo competition introduced by the World Taekwondo Federation in 2013 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic taekwondo tournament. It consists of four competitions per year in each Olympic weight category event. Olympic events occur at approximately half the weight classes as WTF-organised tournaments.
Venues
The most common format of the event has been a series of three Grand Prix, followed by a Grand Final. The first Grand Prix in 2013, and the event in 2016, were single leg competitions, while the 2018 edition had a 4th Grand Prix leg before the Grand Final. The original Grand Prix was held in Manchester, England, recognising the sport's popularity in the United Kingdom, and Manchester remains the most visited venue, with 5 Grand Prix events, while the United Kingdom is also the most visited country, with six events. Russia, Mexico and Italy have also hosted multiple legs.
The 2020 event was to be a single event in Cancún, but was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic, while the 2021 event was abandoned for the same reason, without being officially arranged. The event returned in Rome for an eighth season in 2022. Year GP 1 GP 2 GP 3 GP 4 GP Final 2013 Manchester 2014 Suzhou Astana Manchester Querétaro 2015 Moscow Samsun Manchester Mexico City 2016 Baku 2017 Moscow Rabat London Abidjan 2018 Rome Moscow Taoyuan Manchester Fujairah 2019 Rome Chiba Sofia Moscow2020 Cancún(Canceled) 2022 Rome Paris Manchester Riyadh 2023 Rome Paris Taiyuan Manchester 2024 Taiyuan
All-time medal table
All-time medal count as World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final Manchester 2023
Multiple gold medalists The table shows those who have won at least three gold medals. As of World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final Manchester 2023
Men AthleteCountryTotalLee Dae-hoon 12 3 2 17 Cheick Sallah Cissé 7 3 6 16 Vladislav Larin 7 3 0 10 Jang Jun 7 2 2 11Kim Tae-hun 6 4 5 15 Aleksey Denisenko 6 3 1 10 Maksim Khramtsov 5 4 1 10 In Kyo-don 4 6 1 11 Farzan Ashourzadeh 3 3 2 8 Mehdi Khodabakhshi 3 1 1 5 Simone Alessio 3 1 0 4
Women AthleteCountryTotal Panipak Wongpattanakit 12 2 1 15 Jade Jones 10 7 1 18 Zheng Shuyin 8 1 4 13 Luo Zongshi 6 1 1 8 Bianca Walkden 5 8 3 16 Kim So-hui 5 6 1 12 Wu Jingyu 5 2 0 7 Lee Da-bin 5 1 5 11 Eva Calvo 4 3 0 7 Ruth Gbagbi 4 1 3 8 Magda Wiet-Henin 3 1 4 8
See also World Taekwondo Championships World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships
References
External links World Taekwondo Federation