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The Beginning of Taekwondo
Taekwondo was first developed in the 1940s by various Korean martial artists as a blend of the indigenous Korean fighting styles of taekkyeon, gwonbeop, and subak, with influence from foreign martial arts, such as karate and Chinese martial arts. -
Tradition Taekwondo
The first type of tradition Taekwondo started in the 1940 - 1950s by the nine original kwans in korea and it was practiced in the nine schools for 10 years until another style of taekwondo started rising. -
Introduced to the USA
Taekwondo was first every introduced to the United States in the 1950s -
The first Taekwondo Master
The first Master in Taekwondo was C.K. Han. He was born one July 20th 1934 and was one of the first of the original masters of taekwondo and participated in the March 1959 tour of Taiwan and Vietnam -
The Taekwondo unified style
In 1959 the Korea Taekwondo Association was established to facilitate the unification of Korean martial arts. General Choi, of the Oh Do Kwan, wanted all the other member kwans of the KTA to adopt his own Chan Hon-style of Taekwondo, as a unified style. -
First women medalist
Arlene Limas (born February 9, 1966) is an American taekwondo practitioner and multiple international gold medalist. -
ATA/Songahm-style Taekwondo
In 1969, Haeng Ung Lee, a former Taekwondo instructor in the South Korean military, relocated to Omaha, Nebraska and established a chain of martial arts schools in the United States under the banner of the American Taekwondo Association (ATA) -
Jhoon Rhee-style Taekwondo
In 1962 Jhoon Rhee relocated to the United States and established a chain of martial arts schools primarily in the Washington, D.C. area that practised traditional Taekwondo. In the 1970s, at the urging of Choi Hong Hi, Rhee adopted ITF-style Taekwondo within his chain of schools -
World Taekwondo Federation
World Taekwondo was established at an inaugural meeting held at the Kukkiwon with 35 representatives from all over the world and Un Yong Kim was elected president for 4 years which is why the International Taekwon-Do Federation separated due to many political reasons. -
First Taekwondo olympic game
Taekwondo made its first appearance in the olympics at the 1988 Seoul games, and became an official medal sport at the sydney games -
Official Olympic sport
The first time ever to declare taekwondo as a metal sport was in the 2000 summer olympic games in Sydney. It had previously been a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992. Medals were awarded in four weight classes each for men and women. -
Most Olympic medals
American Steven lopez is one of the best taekwondo olympic player with 2 gold medals and 1 bronze medals in the year 200 -
Technology in Taekwondo
Jing Song invented the technology in taekwondo which brought forward, wireless scorekeeping through the chestguard and as well as the equipment athletes use without having to take points by hand and use them on a screen that displayed the score through the equipment
