World Championship bronze medallist Aaliyah Powell is among four promising youngsters elevated to GB Taekwondo’s senior performance squad. The Huddersfield teenager and reigning junior world champion is joined at the National Taekwondo Centre by Manchester 2019 teammate, Mason Yarrow, plus Caden Cunningham and Chloe Roberts. Like Powell, Cunningham is a member of Quest Taekwondo. Yarrow learned his taekwondo trade at …
Teenager Aaliyah Powell became Great Britain’s youngest ever senior World Championship medallist boosting the home nation’s tally to four with one day of competition remaining at the Manchester Arena. The 16-year-old Huddersfield youngster has combined her GCSE studies with preparing for her first senior competition. And she handed out a series of taekwondo lessons on her -53kg debut to join …
Jade Jones made it fifth time lucky in Manchester tonight defeating holder Ah-Reum Lee to become taekwondo world champion for the first time. The double Olympic Games gold medallist had won silver and bronze medals at her previous four world appearances since 2011. This time, in front of a partisan home audience the Welsh wonder finally delivered the goods, beating …
Brilliant Bradly Sinden became Britain’s first male able-bodied taekwondo champion and his country’s second gold medallist on a momentous night at the World Championships in Manchester. The 20-year-old from Doncaster, bronze medallist in South Korea two years ago, kept his cool to take out Spain’s Javier Perez Polo in the -68kg final. It was a stunning win for Sinden who …
Bianca Walkden became a record breaking three-time world champion in Manchester tonight (Friday). The Liverpudlian heavyweight and world number one defeated Shuyin Zheng, the world number two, after her Chinese rival was disqualified in the +73kg final. ‘Queen B’ trailed 20-10 going into the closing minute but was awarded her latest crown when Zheng collected a 10th and final penalty …
Bianca Walkden and Bradly Sinden will go for gold on day three of taekwondo’s World Championships (May 17) after superb semi-final victories at Manchester Arena tonight. Double champion Walkden is one fight away from achieving legendary status after reaching a third successive +73kg final. Yorkshireman Sinden is six minutes from becoming GB Taekwondo’s first ever male able-bodied taekwondo world gold …
Testing day for young Brits at World Championships but future looks bright Rebecca McGowan’s taekwondo senior World Championship debut didn’t end with a medal in Manchester today (Wednesday) but with plenty of optimism for the future. The 18-year-old from Dumbarton was one of three Scots in action on the opening day of the first taekwondo worlds ever staged in the …
Korea medal opportunities after day one of the Manchester World Championships South Korea’s dominance at taekwondo’s World Championships shows no sign of weakening after day one of the 2019 edition at the Manchester Arena. In each of the three weight divisions the Koreans provided a fighter for tomorrow night’s finals: Jae-young Sim (-46kg), Jun Jang (-58kg) and Da-bin Lee (-73kg) …
Manchester will be the host city in 2023 when the UK stages the World Taekwondo Grand Prix finals for the first time. The sport’s world governing body confirmed the news and the award of a Grand Prix round in 2021 at the World Taekwondo Council meeting on Monday. The decisions have been greeted with pride and enthusiasm by GB Taekwondo …
Four teenagers are among five GB Taekwondo fighters chosen to make their senior World Championship debuts alongside big hitters, Bianca Walkden, Jade Jones and Mahama Cho in Manchester next month. Three of the quartet, Aaliyah Powell (Huddersfield), Jordyn Smith (Falkirk) and Rebecca McGowan (Dumbarton), have succeeded previously at world age group level and won’t be overawed by the task ahead …