2015 World Taekwondo Championships

The 2015 World Taekwondo Championships were the 22nd edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Chelyabinsk, Russia from May 12 to May 18, 2015.^[1] The decision to award the games to Russia was made in 2013 as they out-voted both Vietnam and Brazil.^[2][3]

2015 World Taekwondo Championships
Venue	Traktor Ice Arena
Location	Chelyabinsk, Russia
Dates	12–18 May 2015
Competitors	872 from 139 nations
Champions
Men	Iran
Women	South Korea
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	4	0	1	5
2	Iran	3	0	2	5
3	Turkey	2	1	1	4
4	Uzbekistan	1	2	0	3
5	Chinese Taipei	1	1	1	3
	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
7	World Taekwondo Federation	1	1	0	2
8	Thailand	1	0	1	2
9	Azerbaijan	1	0	0	1
	Japan	1	0	0	1
11	Spain	0	3	1	4
12	Russia	0	2	5	7
13	China	0	2	1	3
14	France	0	1	0	1
	Ivory Coast	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
17	Brazil	0	0	2	2
	Croatia	0	0	2	2
	Cuba	0	0	2	2
	United States	0	0	2	2
21	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Gabon	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Mali	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 entries)		16	16	32	64

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−54 kg) details	Kim Tae-hun  South Korea	Stanislav Denisov  Russia	Venilton Teixeira  Brazil
			Ramnarong Sawekwiharee  Thailand
Flyweight (−58 kg) details	Farzan Ashourzadeh  Iran	Si Mohamed Ketbi World Taekwondo Federation	Ruslan Poiseev  Russia
			Zhao Shuai  China
Bantamweight (−63 kg) details	Jaouad Achab World Taekwondo Federation	Joel González  Spain	Abolfazl Yaghoubi  Iran
			Saúl Gutiérrez  Mexico
Featherweight (−68 kg) details	Servet Tazegül  Turkey	Aleksey Denisenko  Russia	José Antonio Rosillo  Spain
			Shin Dong-yun  South Korea
Lightweight (−74 kg) details	Masoud Hajji-Zavareh  Iran	Nikita Rafalovich  Uzbekistan	Albert Gaun  Russia
			Ismaël Coulibaly  Mali
Welterweight (−80 kg) details	Mehdi Khodabakhshi  Iran	Damon Sansum  Great Britain	Aaron Cook  Moldova
			Tahir Güleç  Germany
Middleweight (−87 kg) details	Radik Isayev  Azerbaijan	Jasur Baykuziyev  Uzbekistan	Vladislav Larin  Russia
			Rafael Alba  Cuba
Heavyweight (+87 kg) details	Dmitriy Shokin  Uzbekistan	Firmin Zokou  Ivory Coast	Anthony Obame  Gabon
			Robelis Despaigne  Cuba

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−46 kg) details	Panipak Wongpattanakit  Thailand	Iryna Romoldanova  Ukraine	Lin Wan-ting  Chinese Taipei
			Iris Sing  Brazil
Flyweight (−49 kg) details	Ha Min-ah  South Korea	Wu Jingyu  China	Svetlana Igumenova  Russia
			Tijana Bogdanović  Serbia
Bantamweight (−53 kg) details	Lim Geum-byeol  South Korea	Huang Yun-wen  Chinese Taipei	Ana Zaninović  Croatia
			Andriana Asprogeraka  Greece
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Mayu Hamada  Japan	Eva Calvo  Spain	Kimia Alizadeh  Iran
			Edina Kotsis  Hungary
Lightweight (−62 kg) details	İrem Yaman  Turkey	Marta Calvo  Spain	Viktoryia Belanouskaya  Belarus
			Rachelle Booth  Great Britain
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Chuang Chia-chia  Chinese Taipei	Nur Tatar  Turkey	Paige McPherson  United States
			Katherine Dumar  Colombia
Middleweight (−73 kg) details	Oh Hye-ri  South Korea	Zheng Shuyin  China	Jackie Galloway  United States
			Iva Radoš  Croatia
Heavyweight (+73 kg) details	Bianca Walkden  Great Britain	Gwladys Épangue  France	Nafia Kuş  Turkey
			Olga Ivanova  Russia

Team ranking

Men Rank Team Points 1  Iran 65 2  Russia 50 3  Uzbekistan 43 4  South Korea 42 5  Spain 34 6 World Taekwondo Fed. 33 7  Turkey 33 8  Azerbaijan 30 9  Mexico 29 10  United States 26

Women Rank Team Points 1  South Korea 56 2  Chinese Taipei 41 3  Turkey 40 4  China 38 5  Great Britain 31 6  Russia 31 7  Spain 28 8  France 26 9  United States 26 10  Croatia 25

Participating nations

A total of 872 athletes from 139 nations competed.^[4]

•  Afghanistan (10)
•  Albania (3)
•  Algeria (5)
•  Angola (2)
•  Argentina (5)
•  Armenia (5)
•  Aruba (1)
•  Australia (15)
•  Austria (2)
•  Azerbaijan (12)
•  Bangladesh (2)
•  Belarus (11)
•  Benin (2)
•  Botswana (5)
•  Brazil (16)
•  Bulgaria (6)
•  Cambodia (1)
•  Canada (16)
•  Cape Verde (3)
•  Central African Republic (3)
•  Chad (4)
•  Chile (11)
•  China (16)
•  Chinese Taipei (16)
•  Colombia (15)
• Congo DR (4)
•  Costa Rica (2)
•  Croatia (12)
•  Cuba (5)
•  Cyprus (13)
•  Czech Republic (3)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Dominican Republic (10)
• East Timor (3)
•  Ecuador (5)
•  Egypt (16)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  Finland (6)
•  France (16)
•  French Polynesia (4)
•  Gabon (7)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (13)
•  Ghana (5)
•  Great Britain (14)
•  Greece (15)
•  Guadeloupe (1)
•  Guatemala (4)
•  Guyana (2)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Honduras (4)
•  Hong Kong (2)
•  Hungary (6)
•  Iceland (3)
•  India (3)
•  Iran (13)
•  Iraq (3)
•  Ireland (5)
•  Israel (7)
•  Italy (10)
•  Ivory Coast (14)
•  Jamaica (4)
•  Japan (6)
•  Jordan (13)
•  Kazakhstan (16)
•  Kenya (5)
•  Kosovo (2)
•  Kyrgyzstan (4)
•  Laos (1)
•  Latvia (2)
•  Lesotho (3)
•  Liberia (2)
•  Libya (4)
•  Lithuania (3)
•  Macau (7)
• Macedonia (1)
•  Madagascar (5)
•  Malaysia (6)
•  Mali (8)
•  Malta (2)
•  Mexico (16)
•  Moldova (5)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Mongolia (5)
•  Montenegro (2)
•  Morocco (9)
•  Mozambique (2)
•  Netherlands (7)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Niger (2)
•  Nigeria (5)
•  Norway (4)
•  Oman (3)
•  Pakistan (3)
•  Palestine (2)
•  Panama (2)
•  Peru (5)
•  Philippines (12)
•  Poland (11)
•  Portugal (6)
•  Puerto Rico (7)
•  Qatar (4)
•  Romania (2)
•  Russia (16)
•  Rwanda (6)
•  San Marino (2)
•  Saudi Arabia (3)
•  Senegal (5)
•  Serbia (13)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Singapore (2)
•  Slovakia (2)
•  Slovenia (6)
•  Somalia (1)
•  South Africa (3)
•  South Korea (16)
•  Spain (16)
•  Sudan (11)
• Swaziland (6)
•  Sweden (8)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  Tajikistan (6)
•  Thailand (8)
•  Tonga (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (3)
•  Tunisia (6)
•  Turkey (16)
•  Turkmenistan (5)
• U. S. Virgin Islands (2)
•  Ukraine (16)
•  United Arab Emirates (2)
•  United States (16)
•  Uruguay (2)
•  Uzbekistan (7)
•  Venezuela (9)
•  Vietnam (9)
• World Taekwondo Federation (6)^[a]
•  Yemen (2)
•  Zimbabwe (2)

• ^a Athletes from Belgium competed as World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) due to the suspension of the country's Taekwondo Federation.^[5]