2009 World Taekwondo Championships

2009 World Taekwondo Championships
Venue	Ballerup Super Arena
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates	14–18 October 2009
Champions
Men	South Korea
Women	China
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The 2009 World Taekwondo Championships are the 19th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held at Ballerup Super Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark from October 14 to October 18, 2009.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−54 kg) details	Choi Yeon-ho  South Korea	Mahmood Haidari  Afghanistan	Chutchawal Khawlaor  Thailand
			Meisam Bagheri  Iran
Flyweight (−58 kg) details	Joel González  Spain	Damián Villa  Mexico	Sayed Hasan Rezai  Afghanistan
			Mauro Crismanich  Argentina
Bantamweight (−63 kg) details	Yeom Hyo-seob  South Korea	Reza Naderian  Iran	Javier Marrón  Spain
			Cem Uluğnuyan  Turkey
Featherweight (−68 kg) details	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed  Iran	Idulio Islas  Mexico	Servet Tazegül  Turkey
			Balla Dièye  Senegal
Lightweight (−74 kg) details	Kim Joon-tae  South Korea	Maxime Potvin  Canada	Mark López  United States
			Mokdad Ounis  Germany
Welterweight (−80 kg) details	Steven López  United States	Nicolás García  Spain	Sébastien Michaud  Canada
			Rashad Ahmadov  Azerbaijan
Middleweight (−87 kg) details	Bahri Tanrıkulu  Turkey	Carlo Molfetta  Italy	Vanja Babić  Serbia
			Yousef Karami  Iran
Heavyweight (+87 kg) details	Daba Modibo Keïta  Mali	Nam Yun-bae  South Korea	Hossein Tajik  Iran
			Arman Chilmanov  Kazakhstan

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−46 kg) details	Park Hyo-ji  South Korea	Zoraida Santiago  Puerto Rico	Buttree Puedpong  Thailand
			Yvette Yong  Canada
Flyweight (−49 kg) details	Brigitte Yagüe  Spain	Anna Soboleva  Russia	Wu Jingyu  China
			Yasmina Aziez  France
Bantamweight (−53 kg) details	Danielle Pelham  United States	Sarita Phongsri  Thailand	Kwon Eun-kyung  South Korea
			Euda Carías  Guatemala
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Hou Yuzhuo  China	Veronica Calabrese  Italy	Andrea Rica  Spain
			Tseng Pei-hua  Chinese Taipei
Lightweight (−62 kg) details	Lim Su-jeong  South Korea	Zhang Hua  China	Estefanía Hernández  Spain
			Chonnapas Premwaew  Thailand
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Gwladys Épangue  France	Taimí Castellanos  Cuba	Sandra Šarić  Croatia
			Nikolina Kursar  Norway
Middleweight (−73 kg) details	Han Yingying  China	Lee In-jong  South Korea	Furkan Asena Aydın  Turkey
			Anastasia Baryshnikova  Russia
Heavyweight (+73 kg) details	Rosana Simón  Spain	Liu Rui  China	Jo Seol  South Korea
			Natália Falavigna  Brazil

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	5	2	2	9
2	Spain	3	1	3	7
3	China	2	2	1	5
4	United States	2	0	1	3
5	Iran	1	1	3	5
6	Turkey	1	0	3	4
7	France	1	0	1	2
8	Mali	1	0	0	1
9	Italy	0	2	0	2
	Mexico	0	2	0	2
11	Thailand	0	1	3	4
12	Canada	0	1	2	3
13	Afghanistan	0	1	1	2
	Russia	0	1	1	2
15	Cuba	0	1	0	1
	Puerto Rico	0	1	0	1
17	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Guatemala	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Senegal	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		16	16	32	64

China grabbed the women's overall title, It marked the first time that Korea failed to retain the women's overall title in the history of the biennial World Taekwondo Championships.

Men Rank Team Points 1  South Korea 63 2  Iran 55 3  Spain 42 4  Turkey 41 5  United States 41 6  Mexico 40 7  Canada 29 8  Afghanistan 28 9  Azerbaijan 25 10  Germany 24

Women Rank Team Points 1  China 64 2  South Korea 54 3  Spain 50 4  France 38 5  United States 32 6  Chinese Taipei 30 7  Russia 28 8  Thailand 25 9  Canada 25 10  Turkey 24

927 athletes from 142 nations competed.

General

• Official Report

Specific

• Official website
• TKD club participated