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World Taekwondo Gala Awards

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World Taekwondo Gala Awards
Presented byWorld Taekwondo
First award5 December 2014 (2014-12-05)

The World Taekwondo Gala Awards are an annual award ceremony hosted by World Taekwondo. The first edition was on 5 December 2014 in Querétaro, Mexico.

Ceremonies

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The ceremonies are typically held one day after the annual Grand Prix final and hosted in the same city.

Edition Date Venue Ref
1 5 December 2014 Mexico Centro de Congresos Queretaro, Querétaro [1]
2 7 December 2015 Mexico Mexico National Theater, Mexico City [2]
3 11 December 2016 Azerbaijan Badamdar Hotel, Baku [3][4]
4 4 December 2017 Ivory Coast Radisson Blue Hotel, Abidjan [5][6]
5 23 November 2018 United Arab Emirates Fujairah National Theater, Fujairah [7]
6 7 December 2019 Russia Lotte Plaza Hotel, Moscow [8][9]

Winners

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Player of the Year

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Year Winner
Male Female
2014 South Korea Lee Dae-hoon United Kingdom Jade Jones
2015 South Korea Lee Dae-hoon China Wu Jingyu
2016 Jordan Ahmad Abughaush United Kingdom Jade Jones
2017 South Korea Lee Dae-hoon United Kingdom Bianca Walkden
2018 South Korea Lee Dae-hoon Turkey İrem Yaman
2019 South Korea Jang Jun Thailand Panipak Wongpattanakit

Kick of the Year

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Year Winner
2014
2015 Moldova Aaron Cook
2016 Ivory Coast Cheick Sallah Cissé
2017 Moldova Aaron Cook
2018 Moldova Aaron Cook
2019 South Korea In Kyo-don

Fair Play Award

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Year Winner(s) Event
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019 United Kingdom Mahama Cho and Kazakhstan Ruslan Zhaparov Italy 2019 Grand Prix Series 1 men's +80 kg semi-finals

Coach of the Year

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Year Winner Team/Athlete(s)
2014 South KoreaBang Young-in Mexico Mexico national taekwondo team
2015 Egypt Gulash Alonso Egypt Egypt national taekwondo team
2016 Azerbaijan Reza Mehmandoust Azerbaijan Azerbaijan national taekwondo team
2017 Serbia Dragan Jović Serbia Milica Mandić, Tijana Bogdanović, Vanja Stanković (Taekwondo Club Galeb)
2018 Turkey Ali Şahin Turkey Turkey national taekwondo team
2019 Azerbaijan Reza Mehmandoust Azerbaijan Azerbaijan national taekwondo team

Member National Association (MNA) of the Year

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Year Winner
2014 Mexico Mexican Taekwondo Federation
2015 Russia Russian Taekwondo Federation
2016 Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Taekwondo Federation
2017 South Korea Korea Taekwondo Association
2018

United Arab Emirates UAE Taekwondo Federation
Italy Italian Taekwondo Federation

2019 Russia Russian Taekwondo Federation

Referee of the Year

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Year Winner
Male Female
2014 Puerto Rico Neydis Tavarez
2015 Morocco Tarik Benradi Thailand Kalay Suddai
2016 Canada Kim Song-chul Georgia (country) Maria Merkouri
2017 Belgium Abdelkhalek Chbibi Lebanon Julie Dib
2018 Egypt Mohamed Adel Abdelfattah Belarus Ksenia Choucha
2019 Russia Denis Kim Serbia Ksenia Levai

National Team of the Year

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Year Winner
2014
2015
2016
2017 South Korea Korea national taekwondo team
2018
2019

Best Continental Union of the Year

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Year Winner
2014
2015
2016
2017 African Union World Taekwondo Africa
2018
2019

Most Improved MNA of the Year

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Year Winner
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019 Brazil Brazilian Taekwondo Federation

References

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  1. ^ "Find out who got the Awards at the Gala Awards Dinner". en.mastkd.com. 2014-12-08. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  2. ^ Dec 8, epau84 |; news 1 | 0 |, 2015 | Slide (2015-12-08). "WTF honors top athletes at 2015 Gala as announces Canada 2016 Junior Champs". WTM. Retrieved 2019-12-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Dec 12, epau84 |; news 1 | 0 |, 2016 | Slide (2016-12-12). "Jones (GBR) and Abughaush (JOR) named Players of the Year". WTM. Retrieved 2019-12-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "9-13 December 2016 World Taekwondo GP Final and WTF Gala Awards and World Taekwondo Team Championships Baku, Azerbaijan - Taekwondo WTF Centr-Vostok". centrvostok.wtf-vao.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  5. ^ "OZ". www.oz.com. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  6. ^ "Walkden and Lee named Athletes of the Year at World Taekwondo Gala Awards". www.insidethegames.biz. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  7. ^ Dept, WT Communications (2018-11-24). "Yaman, Lee Named WT's 'Players of the Year' at 5th Annual Gala Awards". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  8. ^ Dept, WT Communications (2019-12-08). "Jang and Wongpattanakit crowned athletes of the year at World Taekwondo Gala Awards 2019". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  9. ^ "Jang and Wongpattanakit crowned athletes of the year at World Taekwondo Gala Awards 2019". en.mastkd.com. 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2019-12-19.



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