Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games explained

Event:Taekwondo
Games:2023
Venue:Contact Sports Center
Competitors:136
Nations:26
Num Events:11 (5 men, 5 women, 1 mixed)
Prev:2019
Next:2027

Taekwondo competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile are scheduled to be held between October 21 and 24, 2023 at the Contact Sports Center, located in Santiago.[1] [2]

13 medal events are scheduled to be contested. Ten of these events are in Kyorugi (five per gender). In March 2023, PanamSports added a men's and women's team events to the sports program in the Kyorugi division.[3] A total of 136 athletes are scheduled to compete.[4]

Qualification

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2023 Pan American Games – Qualification. A total of up to 136 taekwondo athletes will qualify to compete. Each nation may enter a maximum of 10 athletes (eight in Kyorugi and two in Poomsae). The host nation, Chile, automatically qualifies the maximum number of athletes (8) and is entered in each event. There will also eight wild card spots awarded in Kyorugi and two in Poomsae. The spots will be awarded at the qualification tournament held in Rio de Janeiro in March 2023.[4]

Participating nations

A total of 26 countries qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

Medal summary

Kyorugi

Men
58 kg
68 kg
80 kg
+80 kg
Team

Edival Pontes
Maicon Andrade
Paulo Ricardo Melo

Joaquín Churchill
Ignacio Morales
Aarón Contreras

Uriel Gómez
Carlos Navarro
Bryan Salazar

Adrián Miranda
José Carlos Nieto
Julio César Arroyo
Women
49 kg
57 kg
67 kg
+67 kg
Team

Katherine Rodríguez
Madelyn Rodríguez
Mayerlin Mejía

Victoria Heredia
Fabiola Villegas
Leslie Soltero

Caroline Santos
Maria Clara Pacheco
Sandy Macedo

Arlettys Acosta
Frislaidis Martínez
Marlyn Pérez

Poomsae

Men's individual

Mixed pairs

William Arroyo
Soo Lee Kim

Elian Ortega
Ingrid Darce

Luis Colón
Arelis Medina

Mario Troya
Katlen Jerves

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Santiago 2023 Officially Confirms Sports Venues. 14 June 2022. www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 3 July 2022.
  2. Web site: Sport Calendar Pan American Games. 21 July 2022. www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 10 August 2022.
  3. Web site: Team taekwondo event added to Santiago 2023 programme. Palmer. Dan. 22 March 2023. Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. 3 March 2023.
  4. Web site: Qualification System manual. 11 April 2022. www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 4 November 2022.