PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - South Korea's Kim Yu-jin won the Olympic gold medal in the women's taekwondo featherweight (under 57kg) division, swiftly beating Iran's Nahid Kiyanichandeh in a show of ...

Zolotic faced off against Tatiana Minina of the Russian Olympic Committee in the gold medal bout of the women’s 57kg taekwondo event on Sunday. It was the third gold medal won by the United States in ...

Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal at the Paralympics. Khudadadi, originally from Afghanistan but now living and ...

Aug 20 (Gracenote) - Olympic taekwondo women's heavyweight +67kg repechage round results in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. Gwladys Epangue (France) beat Nisha Rawal (Nepal) 4-3 Wiam Dislam (Morocco) beat ...

Panipak Wongpattanakit made history at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, Aug. 7, becoming the first person from Thailand to win two gold medals when she defended her 2020 Olympic title in the taekwondo ...

KATY, Texas — A woman who was being attacked by a teen male was rescued when a family trained in taekwondo heard her yelling and subdued the suspect, authorities say. A news release from the Harris ...

KATY, Texas (KHOU) – A family who owns a dojo in Texas used their skills in taekwondo to save a woman who was being sexually assaulted, according to authorities. The An family have been in business ...

“Where do you want me to rape you?” another message read. More than 5,000 calls and messages bombarded Marzieh Hamidi’s phone in the days after the Afghan Taekwondo champion dared to suggest that her ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Taekwondo instructors at a studio in Harris County, Texas were able to save a woman from an attack, officials said. The incident happened on Tuesday around 3 p.m. just after the ...