World Taekwondo Grand Prix
| Current event or competition: 2023 World Taekwondo Grand Prix | |
| Competition details | |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Taekwondo |
| Type | kyourugui, biennial |
| Organiser | World Taekwondo (WT) |
| History | |
| First edition | 2013 in Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Editions | 8 (2022) |
| Most wins |  South Korea |
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[edit]
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
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| 2014 |  Suzhou
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 Astana
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Manchester
|
 Querétaro
| |
| 2015 |  Moscow
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 Samsun
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Manchester
|
Mexico City
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| 2016 |  Baku
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| 2017 | Moscow
|
 Rabat
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London
|
 Abidjan
| |
| 2018 |  Rome
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Moscow
|
 Taoyuan
|
Manchester
|
 Fujairah
|
| 2019 | Rome
|
 Chiba
|
 Sofia
|
Moscow
| |
| 2020 | Cancún(Canceled)
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| 2022 | Rome
|
 Paris
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Manchester
|
 Riyadh
| |
| 2023 | Rome
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Paris
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Taiyuan
|
Manchester
| |
All-time medal table[edit]
All-time medal count as World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final Manchester 2023
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 53 | 41 | 52 | 146 |
| 2 | China | 28 | 15 | 28 | 71 |
| 3 | Russia | 26 | 17 | 24 | 67 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 24 | 28 | 28 | 80 |
| 5 |  Iran | 13 | 13 | 28 | 54 |
| 6 | Turkey | 12 | 11 | 32 | 55 |
| 7 |  Thailand | 12 | 4 | 3 | 19 |
| 8 | Ivory Coast | 11 | 4 | 9 | 24 |
| 9 |  Spain | 10 | 20 | 20 | 50 |
| 10 | France | 8 | 9 | 17 | 34 |
| 11 |  Jordan | 5 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| 12 | Italy | 5 | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 13 |  Croatia | 4 | 8 | 17 | 29 |
| 14 |  Uzbekistan | 4 | 6 | 14 | 24 |
| 15 |  Serbia | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 |
| 16 |  Chinese Taipei | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 |
| 17 |  Tunisia | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 18 |  United States | 3 | 3 | 17 | 23 |
| 19 |  Brazil | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 |
| 20 |  Sweden | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 21 | Azerbaijan | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 22 |  Germany | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 23 |  Poland | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 24 | Mexico | 1 | 10 | 13 | 24 |
| 25 |  Egypt | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 |
| 26 |  Belgium | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| 27 |  Canada | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 28 |  Hungary | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 29 |  Gabon | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
 Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 31 |  Isle of Man | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
 Norway | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
 Portugal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 34 |  Cuba | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 35 | Kazakhstan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| – |  Individual Neutral Athletes a | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 36 |  Moldova | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 37 | Morocco | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 38 |  Greece | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 40 |  Puerto Rico | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 41 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 42 |  Argentina | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 43 |  Australia | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 44 |  Belarus | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
 North Macedonia | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 46 |  Ireland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 47 |  Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Dominican Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Mali | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Panama | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (55 entries) | 250 | 247 | 427 | 924 | |
Multiple gold medalists[edit]
The table shows those who have won at least three gold medals. As of World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final Manchester 2023
- Men
| Athlete | Country |  |
 |
 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Dae-hoon | South Korea |
12 | 3 | 2 | 17 |
| Cheick Sallah Cissé | Ivory Coast |
7 | 3 | 6 | 16 |
| Vladislav Larin | Russia |
7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Jang Jun | South Korea |
7 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| Kim Tae-hun | South Korea |
6 | 4 | 5 | 15 |
| Aleksey Denisenko | Russia |
6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Maksim Khramtsov | Russia |
5 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| In Kyo-don | South Korea |
4 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| Farzan Ashourzadeh | Iran |
3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Mehdi Khodabakhshi | Iran |
3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Simone Alessio | Italy |
3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
- Women
| Athlete | Country | |
|
|
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panipak Wongpattanakit | Thailand |
12 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| Jade Jones | Great Britain |
10 | 7 | 1 | 18 |
| Zheng Shuyin | China |
8 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| Luo Zongshi | China |
6 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Bianca Walkden | Great Britain |
5 | 8 | 3 | 16 |
| Kim So-hui | South Korea |
5 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
| Wu Jingyu | China |
5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Lee Da-bin | South Korea |
5 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| Eva Calvo | Spain |
4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Ruth Gbagbi | Ivory Coast |
4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Magda Wiet-Henin | France |
3 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
See also[edit]
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