Taekwondo

Sydney, Sports centre, Olympic Park, 29 September 2000, Games of the XXVII Olympiad: Sun-Hee LEE of Korea (in blue) in action against Trude GUNDERSEN of Norway during the -67kg taekwondo final. Sun-Hee LEE went on to win the gold medal.

Various Korean forms of martial arts have existed but in the early 20th century, taekwondo became the dominant form. In 1955 a group of Korean martial arts leaders chose taekwondo as the definitive Korean martial art in an attempt to promote its development internationally.


In 1973, the Korean government recognised the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) as the legitimate governing body of the sport, and the first World Championships were held in that year.

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奥运会跆拳道发展史

        1988年，跆拳道作为奥运会表演项目首次出现在汉城奥运会上。1994年，国际奥委会表决通过了跆拳道成为2000年悉尼奥运会的正式比赛项目。

　　中国于1995年正式开展跆拳道运动，随后此项运动在中国得到快速普及。在2000年悉尼奥运会上，中国女子跆拳道选手、来自北京体育大学的陈中在女子67公斤以上级比赛中敢打敢拼、顽强拼搏，为祖国首次夺得奥运会跆拳道比赛的金牌。2004年雅典奥运会，来自中国北京体育大学的陈中和罗薇参加跆拳道比赛，她们奋力拼得两枚金牌。其中罗薇获得女子负67公斤级金牌；陈中则获得女子67公斤以上级金牌。中华台北奥运会代表团也在跆拳道项目上一举取得了金牌零的突破，陈诗欣和朱木炎各夺得1枚金牌。