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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
WTF REVISED MATCH RULES PASS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE |
On December 15, 2008, at Ankara, Turkey, World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Executive Committee passed revisions to match rules and articles of association. Along with these revisions, WTF World Ranking was also approved by the committee. The final vote will take place from December of 2008 to January 2009 by an e-vote within the general assembly...........more detail |
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
GREAT BRITAIN POOMSAE TEAM FLY OUT TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS |
The BTCB Great Britain Poomsae Team will fly out to fly out this Friday 12th December to participate at the 3rd WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Ankara, Turkey. The team will spend a few days preparing for the event which is expected to be the largest to date with more than 60 countries and 500 athletes expected to attend. The three-day event will run from the 16th 18th December and will be held over three rings in the ASKI Sport Hall, which is the biggest and most modern indoor stadium in Ankara. This is also the first time the WTF have held the World Po omsae Championships outside of South Korea...........more detail |
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
FUNDING INCREASES BY 68.3% TO 4.49M FOR LONDON 2012 TAEKWONDO ATHLETES |
Basketball, synchronised swimming, taekwondo, boxing, archery and hockey are the big winners in UK Sport's Olympic 2012 funding programme.
All six have received sizeable increases in their budgets ahead of London, with basketball getting a huge 136% increase, up from 3.7m to 8.7m...........more detail |
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
NEWS FROM THE 4TH COMMONWEALTH TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS : UPDATE |
No official results have been posted yet but we do know the following:-
Sparring..........more detail |
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12-POINT CEILING AND 7-POINT GAP TO GO, 10M RING REPLACED WITH 8M |
As part of its ceaseless efforts to make takewondo more action-packed and exciting, the World Taekwondo Federation held a Joint Technical Meeting for the amendment to the WTF Competition Rules in Seoul, Korea on Nov. 14, 2008...........more detail |
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
RESULTS FROM THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL AND DORSET OPEN POSTED |
Full results from the first BTCB British Open International Championships 2008 and the Dorset Taekwondo Championships 2008 can be viewed from our Results section...........more detail |
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Monday, November 03, 2008
TAEKWONDO AIMING HIGH |
You might not know it yet, but over a two-week period in four years time, taekwondo could become your new favourite sport.
As unlikely as that sounds, it's the target for organisers of the sport in this country when London hosts the Olympics in 2012...........more detail |
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
WTF TO INTRODUCE ATHLETE RANKING SYSTEM IN 2009 |
The World Taekwondo Federation will introduce an athlete ranking system as early as in 2009, after years of study.
The WTF athlete world ranking system, which will be announced every three months, is aimed at making taekwondo competitions more exciting both to the public and the media. ..........more detail |
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
BTCB JOB VACANCY: TEAM LOGISTICS AND ADMINISTRATION MANAGER |
Sport Taekwondo UK Ltd has a specific objective of delivering the goals of the World Class Performance Programme culminating at the Olympic Games in London 2012...........more detail |
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Monday, October 27, 2008
TV AND TICKETING NEWS, THE BRITISH OPEN |
The latest ticketing and TV news for the British Open is as follows:
Tickets for the 1st BTCB British Open are still available online at www.ticketmaster.co.uk. Tickets are priced online at 10 per adult and 5 for under 16s. This excludes the handling fee...........more detail |
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
SPORT TAEKWONDO UK LTD PAIRS UP WITH KPMG |
Professional services firm KPMG is to partner with Sport Taekwondo UK Ltd, the performance arm of the British Taekwondo Control Board who assume responsibility for elite and Olympic taekwondo development within Great Britain...........more detail |
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
DAN GRADING AND COMPETITION PHOTOS POSTED |
If you were at any of the events listed below, click on the relevant link and check out your photos. More events will be uploaded to the FIMP Media site over the next week or so.
27-09-08 BTCB Black Belt seminar and grading
17-08-08 Chungdokwan Taekwondo 1-1
06-07-08 Tony's Ultimate Taekwondo 1-1
09-12-07 BTCB Black Belt seminar and grading
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Friday, October 17, 2008
VICE PRESIDENT SOO NAM PARK, WILL RUN FOR WTF PRESIDENCY |
WTF Vice President Soo Nam Park has made an official announcement that he will run for WTF Presidency. This early announcement is getting a lot of attention from the public...........more detail |
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
KOREAN PROFESSIONAL TEAM ENTER BRITISH OPEN |
A full team of 16 professional taekwondo players from Korea's professional league have sacrificed attending their nations own Open Event to attend the 1st BTCB British Open. This latest team to register adds to those who have already registered either online at www.ma-regonline.com, or direct with the Organizing Committee.
If you have not yet registered to participate, there is still time. Go to www.ma-regonline.com
and register now...........more detail |
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
RESULTS FROM ULTIMATE TAEKWONDO OPEN POSTED |
You can now find the full results from last weekends Ultimate Taekwondo Open listed in our Results section. This competition was attended by Taekwondo teams from all over the UK, including a strong showing from London based clubs.
All though there were a few teething problems with one of the rings at the start of the competition, and a few people in the wrong grade categories, it was good to see some players that we rarely see at northern competitions.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
SKY SPORTS TO BROADCAST THE BRITISH OPEN |
The 2008 BTCB British International Open will be broadcast on Sky Sports during November.
A one hour highlights show will be screened shortly after the event featuring the best from the weekends competition.
The exact scheduling will follow shortly...........more detail |
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
PHOTOS FROM BRITISH NATIONAL TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS POSTED ON FIMPMEDIA.COM |
Take a look at the photos from the British National Taekwondo Championships 2008 taken by FIMP Media Limited:-
Best Taekwondo photos - day 1
Best Taekwondo photos - day 2
All photos from the British National Taekwondo Championships..........more detail |
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
FULL RESULTS FROM BRITISH NATIONAL TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008 POSTED |
The full team results for the weekend are listed below. Before viewing them, here is a message from the BTCB concerning the calculation of points for the team scores on Sunday...........more detail |
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Monday, September 08, 2008
BRITISH TAEKWONDO NATIONALS - DAY 2 RESULTS |
Here are the results from day 2 of the British National Taekwondo Championships 2008. We will post the team results from Sunday as soon as we receive them. Photos from the event will be posted by our sister site, www.fimpmedia.com within the next 7 days...........more detail |
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Saturday, September 06, 2008
BRITISH TAEKWONDO NATIONALS - DAY 1 RESULTS |
Pos - Team - Teamscore
1 - SCORPION TKD - 76
2 - ULTIMATE TKD - 45
3 - MANCHESTER ACES - 29
4 - FUSION TKD - 29
5 - LIVERPOOL ELITE - 28..........more detail |
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