Taekwondo at the 2022 Asian Para Games

Taekwondo at the 2022 Asian Para Games
Location	Hangzhou, China
Dates	24–26 October

Taekwondo made its debut as an Asian Para Games sport during the 2022 version of the games, held in Hangzhou, China. 77 fighters from 17 nations took part in the competition, fighting in ten weight categories. Competitors qualified under the K44 designation, which includes athletes with unilateral arm amputation or similar imparemnet, or loss of toes affecting the ability to lift the heel.

Before the tournament, Uzbekistan, Iran and Mongolia were favourites to win medals. By the end of the tournament, Iran had won the most medals, followed by China and Uzbekistan, with Mongolia coming fourth. Nepal’s Palesha Goverdhan claimed her country’s first ever international medal in Taekwondo, winning a bronze medal in the women’s 57kg class.

Gold medal matches

In the men’s K44 58kg final, Taiwan’s Xiao Xiang-wen defeated Japan’s Mitsuya Tanaka by 27-11.

In the men’s K44 63kg final Mongolia’s Ganbat Bolor-Erdene defeated Iran’s Saeid Sadeghianpour by 6-2.

In the men’s K44 70kg final, Iran’s Mehdi Pourrahnama defeated China’s Shihe Chen by 16-3.

In the men’s K44 80kg final, Korea’s Joo Jeong-hun defeated Iran’s Alireza Bakht.

In the men’s K44 +80kg final, Iran’s Hamed Haghshenas defeated Kazakhstan’s Nyshan Omirali.

In the women’s 47kg final, Thailand’s Khwansuda Phuangkitcha defeated Uzbekistan’s Ziyodakhon Isakova by 7-4.

In the women’s 52kg final, China’s Shao Qian defeated Mongolia’s Surenjav Ulambayar.

In the women’s 57kg final, Roza Ebrahimi defeated Kazakhstan’s Kamilya Dosmalova by 34-15.

In the women’s 65kg final, China’s Yao Yinan defeated Iran’s Romina Chamsouraki.

In the women’s +65kg final, Uzbekistan’s Guljonoy Naimova defeated Iran’s Leila Mirzaei.

Nations

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1.  Afghanistan (3)
2.  Bahrain (1)
3.  China (11)
4.  India (4)
5.  Iran (10)
6.  Iraq (2)
7.  Japan (4)
8.  Kazakhstan (9)
9.  South Korea (5)
10.  Saudi Arabia (2)
11.  Nepal (1)
12.  Mongolia (4)
13.  Philippines (1)
14.  Chinese Taipei (2)
15.  Thailand (4)
16.  Uzbekistan (9)
17.  Vietnam (1)

Entries

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Events	M/W 1	M/W 2	M/W 3	M/W 4	M/W 5
Men's	9	12	8	8	9
Women's	6	6	5	5	5

Athletes

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Medal table

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Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran (IRI)	3	4	3	10
2	China (CHN)	2	1	3	6
3	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	1	5	7
4	Mongolia (MGL)	1	1	0	2
5	Thailand (THA)	1	0	2	3
6	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	0	0	1
8	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	2	3	5
9	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
10	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		10	10	20	40

Medalists

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Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
58 kg	Xiao Xiang-wen  Chinese Taipei	Mitsuya Tanaka  Japan	Thanwa Kaenkham  Thailand
			Sanjarbek Mukhtorov  Uzbekistan
63 kg	Ganbatyn Bolor-Erdene  Mongolia	Saeid Sadeghianpour  Iran	Tanapan Sotthiset  Thailand
			Kudratjon Haydarov  Uzbekistan
70 kg	Mahdi Pourrahnama  Iran	Chen Shihe  China	Shunsuke Kudo  Japan
			Javokhir Alikulov  Uzbekistan
80 kg	Joo Jeong-hun  South Korea	Alireza Bakht  Iran	Nurlan Dombayev  Kazakhstan
			Asadbek Toshtemirov  Uzbekistan
+80 kg	Hamed Haghshenas  Iran	Nyshan Omirali  Kazakhstan	Alisher Garipollayev  Kazakhstan
			Asadbek Anvarov  Uzbekistan

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
47 kg	Khwansuda Phuangkitcha  Thailand	Ziyodakhon Isakova  Uzbekistan	Aruna Tanwar  India
			Maryam Abdollahpour  Iran
52 kg	Shao Qian  China	Surenjav Ulambayar  Mongolia	Narges Javadi  Iran
			Mahdiyeh Sadat Hosseini  Iran
57 kg	Roza Ebrahimi  Iran	Kamilya Dosmalova  Kazakhstan	Li Yujie  China
			Palesha Goverdhan  Nepal
65 kg	Yao Yinan  China	Romina Chamsouraki  Iran	Mariam Salimgereeva  Kazakhstan
			Kim Won-seon  South Korea
+65 kg	Guljonoy Naimova  Uzbekistan	Leila Mirzaei  Iran	Tang Qi  China
			Pan Lianhua  China

Ranking

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