Event: | Women's middleweight |
Championship: | 2019 World Championships |
Dates: | 15–16 May 2019 |
Venue: | Manchester Arena |
Competitors: | 30 |
Nations: | 30 |
Gold: | Lee Da-bin |
Gold Nation: | KOR |
Silver: | María Espinoza |
Silver Nation: | MEX |
Bronze: | Marie-Paule Blé |
Bronze Nation: | FRA |
Bronze2: | Nafia Kuş |
Bronze2 Nation: | TUR |
Prev: | 2017 |
Next: | 2022 |
See main article: 2019 World Taekwondo Championships.
The women's middleweight is a competition featured at the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom on 15 and 16 May.
Middleweights were limited to a maximum of 73 kilograms in body mass.
Espinoza, three times Olympic medalist faced twenty-two years old Lee Da-bin from South Korea in the final who had never competed in a World Championships before. A body shot for Lee gave her an early 2–0 lead. Espinoza responded with a punch but Lee scored few more points to finish the first round 7–1. Lee carried on where she left off at the start of the second to finish it 14–2. In the third round Lee maintained her intensity and landed a number of shots to the body and head shots to win her first ever World Championships 22–2.