Milica Mandic beat home favourite and defending champion Oh Hye-ri in the women’s 73 kilograms final to secure Serbia’s second gold medal at the World Taekwondo Championships here today.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has today spoken of his support for a unified Korean team at next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, describing the idea as being "in the spirit of Olympism".

Great Britain’s Bianca Walkden successfully defended her World Taekwondo Championships title here on a day when Jeong Yun-Jo increased hosts South Korea’s gold medal tally for the event to four.

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has said the potential performance of the body’s Demonstration Team at this year’s International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) World Championships will be the main focus of a meeting scheduled to take place with his counterpart at the other governing body Ri Yong-son in Seoul on Thursday (June 29).

Lee Dae-hoon claimed the men’s 68 kilograms title at the World Taekwondo Championships here today to take host nation South Korea’s gold medal tally to three for the event.

Russia's Maksim Khramtcov and Serbia's Vanja Stankovic both claimed their maiden World Taekwondo Championship titles as action continued here today.

Association of Summer Olympic International Federations President Francesco Ricci Bitti believes taekwondo is in "good health" - but has admitted the differences between the sport's two bodies "looks very difficult".