Paris will host the World Para Taekwondo Grand Prix on October 8 and the World Taekwondo Grand Prix from October 9-11 at the Palais des Sports Marcel Cerdan in Levallois-Perret.
It is the first World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Paris since 2023, when the same venue hosted competition.\u00a0
Paris is the third stop on this year\u2019s World Taekwondo Grand Prix Series, following Rome, Italy and Muju Taekwondowon, Korea, and the last event prior to November\u2019s Grand Prix Final in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Para Taekwondo competition in Paris will take place across 10 weight categories \u2013 M K44 -58kg, -63kg, -70kg, -80kg and +80kg, and W K44 -47kg, -52kg, -57kg, -65kg and +65kg \u2013 featuring 113 athletes from 30 countries, plus World Taekwondo (Costa Rica).
Australia’s Shrijana Ghising, who won gold at Muju Taekwondowon, heads the W K44 -47kg field, while in the -52kg Georgia’s Ana Japaridze won gold in Rome and silver in Muju.
Morocco’s Ayoub Adouchi, the 2025 World Para Taekwondo Athlete of the Year, competes in the M K44 -63kg, while Japan’s Shunsuke Kudo \u2013 the winner in Rome and bronze medallist in Muju \u2013 is entered in the M K44 -70kg. In the M K44 -80kg, Mexico’s Luis Mario Najera, Rome bronze and Muju silver medallist, is among the standout names.
Great Britain’s Amy Truesdale, the Paris 2024 Paralympic champion and Muju silver medallist, has once again entered in the W K44 +65kg.
France’s Djelika Diallo in the W K44 -65kg will be among the home favourites, having won silver at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games and bronze at the Grand Prix in Muju last month.
The World Taekwondo Grand Prix will then take place over three days across eight weight categories: M -58kg, -68kg, -80kg and +80kg, and W -49kg, -57kg, -67kg and +67kg.
A total of 253 athletes from 54 countries, plus the Taekwondo Refugee Team and World Taekwondo (Costa Rica), will participate, including 21 medallists who qualified through the Bangkok 2025 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge.
Thirteen gold medallists from the opening two World Taekwondo Grand Prix 2026 events are on the entry list.\u00a0
Brazil’s Maria Clara Pacheco, who won gold at both Rome and Muju (W -57kg), is among the headline names.
Rome gold medallists Kimi Laur\u00e8ne Ossin of C\u00f4te d’Ivoire (W +67kg), Viviana M\u00e1rton of Hungary (W -67kg), Juan Antonio Milan Canovas of Spain (M -80kg) and Berkay Erer of T\u00fcrkiye (M -68kg) have also entered.\u00a0
They are joined by Muju gold medallists Seif Eissa of Egypt (M +80kg), Raman Turavinau of Russia (M -80kg) and Xiaolu Fu of China (M -49kg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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