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]}

Medal summary

Men

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

Women

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

Medal table

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

Team ranking

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

Participating nations

927 athletes from 142 nations competed.

References

General

• Official Report

Specific

External links

• Official website
• TKD club participated