Former Olympic champion Cheick Cissé, two-time Olympic medallist Lee Dae-hoon and Katherine Alvarado have all been elected to the World Taekwondo Athletes' Committee here, while Wu Jingyu has been re-elected for a fresh four-year term.

Croatia's Lena Stojković defended her women's under-46 kilograms title at the World Taekwondo Championships here, while 18-year-old South Korean Park Tae-joon earned men's under-54kg gold.

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has reiterated that he is "really saddened" by Ukraine's absence from the World Championships here, but defended the governing body's support for athletes from the country.

There was a double success for Turkey on the fourth day of the World Taekwondo Championships here, where they won both available gold medals through Nafia Kuş and Hakan Reçber.

World Taekwondo has revealed plans to reduce its Olympic ranking system from a four-year to two-year cycle for Los Angeles 2028 here.

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has vowed to focus on promoting the sport "more in a humanitarian way" and the development of virtual taekwondo for the remainder of his fifth term.

Turkey's Merve Dinçel won a dramatic women's under-49 kilograms final to deny Olympic champion Panipak Wongpattanakit of Thailand a third gold at the World Taekwondo Championships here, and there were victories in the men's events for South Korea's Kang Sang-hyun and Italy's Simone Alessio.

Yehya Al Ghotani has hailed the support he received from the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation's (THF) as he is set to become the first athlete from its flagship Azraq Camp academy to compete at the World Championships here.

There was double joy for France on the second day of the World Taekwondo Championships here, and two neutral athletes from Russia and Belarus finished on the podium for the first time after being allowed to compete.

World Taekwondo is investigating the Russian Taekwondo Union for its recognition of a regional federation in Crimea as one of its members, and has insisted all neutral athletes from Russia and Belarus at the World Championships here are not "actively engaged in the military".