European Taekwondo Championships Explained

European Taekwondo Championships
Current Event:	2024 European Taekwondo Championships
Discipline:	Taekwondo
Type:	kyourugui, biennial
Organiser:	European Taekwondo Union (ETU)
Weight:	Men (8) Women (8)
First:	22 May 1976 in Barcelona, Spain
Number:	26 (2024)

The European Taekwondo Championships are the European senior championships in Taekwondo, first held in Barcelona in 1976. The event is held every two years and is organized by the European Taekwondo Union, the continental affiliate of World Taekwondo, which organises and controls Olympic style taekwondo. An additional event, the G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships were exceptionally held in 2019.

The championships should not be confused with:

• the European Games taekwondo competitions, which form part of a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition;
• the EITF European Taekwondo Championships, a championships organised by the European International Taekwondo Federation, the continental arm of the International Taekwondo Federation.^[1]
• the European Taekwondo Championships Olympic Weight Categories, also organised by the ETU but only a G-1 ranked tournament while the European Taekwondo Championships are ranked as a G-4 tournament and also the most important continental competition.

In addition to the kyorugi (full contact fighting) Championships, there are also Para European Championships^{[2] [3]} as well as Poomsae and Para Poomsae Championships held every two years.^{[4] [5]}

Editions

See main article: European Taekwondo Union.

	Year	Dates	Host	Champion	Events
align=center	1	1976	22 May			align=center	8
align=center	2	1978	20–22 October			align=center	8
align=center	3	1980	14–17 October			align=center	17
align=center	4	1982	23–26 September			align=center	18
align=center	5	1984	26–28 October			align=center	18
align=center	6	1986	3–5 October			align=center	16
align=center	7	1988	26–29 May			align=center	16
align=center	8	1990	18–21 October			align=center	16
align=center	9	1992	18–25 May			align=center	16
align=center	10	1994	28–30 October			align=center	16
align=center	11	1996	26–27 October			align=center	16
align=center	12	1998	23–25 October			align=center	16
align=center	13	2000	4–7 May			align=center	16
align=center	14	2002	1–5 April			align=center	16
align=center	15	2004	1–5 May			align=center	16
align=center	16	2005	6–9 October			align=center	16
align=center	17	2006	26–28 May			align=center	16
align=center	18	2008	10–13 April			align=center	16
align=center	19	2010	12–15 May			align=center	16
align=center	20	2012	3–6 May			align=center	16
align=center	21	2014	1–4 May			align=center	16
align=center	22	2016	19–22 May			align=center	16
align=center	23	2018	10–13 May			align=center	16
align=center	24	2021	8–11 April	Sofia, Bulgaria		align=center	16
align=center	25	2022	19–22 May	Manchester, United Kingdom		align=center	16
align=center	26	2024	10–12 May	Belgrade, Serbia	Croatia	16
27	2026 (details)	tbd	Germany		16

• 2020 European Taekwondo Championships was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic (Belgrade, Serbia).

Extra European Championships

The G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships were held in November 2019 as a form of compensation for European athletes to provide them the chance to collect ranking points for the 2020 Olympic Games after taekwondo was dropped from the 2019 European Games program.^[6] World Taekwondo Europe (WTE) president referred to it as the continental flagship event.^[7]

U21

Source:^[9]

Team ranking

Team Points Rules:^{[10] [11] [12]}

1976-2018: Each Registered (weight-in) player 1 Point + Each win 1 Point + Gold medal 7 point + silver medal 3 point + bronze medal 1 point

2021-Ongoing: Each Registered (weight-in) player 1 Point + Each win 1 Point + Gold medal 120 point + silver medal 50 point + bronze medal 20 point

If the points are equal, the medals will choose the best team.

Year	Host		Men				Women
		width=150	1	width=150	2	width=150	3	width=150	1	width=150	2	width=150	3
1976
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2005
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2021
2022

Medals (1976-2022)

Source:^{[13] [14]}

Multiple gold medalists

The table shows those who have won at least three gold medals.^[15]

Men

width=200	Athlete!	width=200	Country!	width=60	!	width=60	!	width=60	!	width=60	Total
Geremia Di Costanzo		5	0	1	6
Servet Tazegül		5	0	0	5
Seyfula Magomedov		4	1	2	7
Pascal Gentil		3	3	0	6
Aaron Cook		3	1	1	5
Gabriel Esparza		3	1	0	4
Levent Tuncat		3	1	0	4
Joseph Salim		3	0	3	6
Gergely Salim		3	0	0	3
Jesper Roesen		3	0	0	3

Women

width=200	Athlete!	width=200	Country!	width=60	!	width=60	!	width=60	!	width=60	Total
Coral Bistuer		5	0	0	5
Bianca Walkden		4	1	1	6
Brigitte Yagüe		4	1	1	6
Sarah Stevenson		4	0	2	6
Gwladys Épangue		3	3	1	7
Jade Jones		3	1	3	7
Nataša Vezmar		3	1	1	5
Lucija Zaninović		3	0	1	4
Anastasia Baryshnikova		3	0	0	3
Natalia Ivanova		3	0	0	3
Tatiana Kudashova		3	0	0	3

European Poomsae Championships

Edition	Year	Host Country^[16]
6	2005 (details)	, Turku
7	2007 (details)	, Antalya
8	2009 (details)	, Portimão
9	2010 (details)	, Tashkent
10	2011 (details)	, Genoa
11	2013 (details)	, La Nucia
12	2015 (details)	, Belgrade^[17]
13	2017 (details)	, Rhodes^[18]
14	2019 (details)	, Antalya^[19]
15	2021 (details)	, Seixal^[20]
16	2023 (details)	, Innsbruck^[21]

See also

• Taekwondo at the European Games
• Taekwondo at the 2015 European Games
• Taekwondo at the 2023 European Games
• European Taekwondo Championships Olympic Weight Categories
• European Juniors Taekwondo Championships
• European Universities Taekwondo Championships

External links

• Official site of the European Taekwondo Union

Notes and References

1. ITF is a smaller international federation unaffiliated to either WTF or IOC, and competing under slightly modified rules including the wearing of padded gloves and footwear.
2. Web site: [World Taekwondo] European Championships Mark a New Era in Para Taekwondo ]. 2024-06-30 . m.worldtaekwondo.org.
3. https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Time-Table-PARA.pdf
4. https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/eventDocuments_b85d17c5-7613-4969-96de-fc8a7d8ba93e.pdf
5. https://www.dtu.de/fileadmin/Events/Europameisterschaft_Poomsae_2023/Outline_EC_Poomsae_2023_final.pdf
6. Web site: WTE secretary general thanks organisers for delivering successful G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships. 2019-11-12. Inside the Games.
7. World Taekwondo 2020 Magazine. 107. 231. Europe remains the leading CU in the world with a record number of athletes participating in our events and a record number of 28 G-ranked events on our continent, including European Championships in eight different member countries. Our flagship event, G4 Extra European Championships for seniors in Italy was a huge success. Not only did we see the best of the best competing....
8. Web site: Medallists G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships Bari, Italy. taekwondo-oezer.de.
9. Web site: TaekwondoData. TaekwondoData. en. 2018-05-18.
10. Web site: 아시아태권도연맹 .
11. Web site: 아시아태권도연맹 .
12. Web site: 아시아태권도연맹 .
13. [:es:Campeonato Europeo de Taekwondo#Medallero histórico]
14. Web site: TaekwondoData .
15. Web site: Archived copy. 2018-05-22. 2017-09-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20170911135901/http://www.taekwondodata.com/ranking_career.html. dead.
16. Web site: Taekwondo Poomsae . 2024-06-30 . en-US.
17. Web site: 2015-06-30 . [wtu] 12th European Poomsae Championships 2015 Closing ]. 2024-06-30 . wtu.
18. Web site: 2017-05-07 . European Poomsae Championships 2017 successfully open in Rhodes . 2024-06-30 . www.insidethegames.biz.
19. https://www.tpss.eu/results/1547/Day%201%20-%20Elimination%20Drawsheets.pdf
20. Web site: 2024-06-29 . Deutsche Taekwondo Union e.V.: Europameisterschaft Poomsae .
21. Web site: 2024-06-29 . Author L. F . 2023-11-22 . en-US . 2023 European Poomsae Championships and 1st European Poomsae Para Taekwondo Championships – Europe Taekwondo .