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Established in 2002, GB Taekwondo is responsible for identifying, developing, preparing and fielding the nations most talented Taekwondo athletes at the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, World and European Championships, and at other major international competitions.
Based in Manchester, we deliver the full time ‘World Class Performance’ programme with the support of UK Sport and National Lottery funding, supporting 30 athletes to live in the city, and training out of the GB Taekwondo National Training Centre in East Manchester. We also deliver a ‘Development’ programme with the support of Sport England, designed to help young aspiring 13-18 year Taekwondo athletes meet the standards required for entry into the World Class Programme.
Being dedicated to our purpose.
Owning our actions, our successes and our failures.
Doing what is right rather than what is easy.
Setting and pursuing the highest standards and goals as individuals and as a team.
Caden Cunningham debuts at the Paris 2024 Games and wins silver in the final against Iran.
Amy Truesdale wins Gold at the Paralympic Games after a nail-biting final against Uzebkistan's G. Naimova. Matt Bush becomes GB first ever male taekwondo Gold medalist.
In 2017, Bianca Walkden and Amy Truesdale become World Champions for the second time, 2 of 6 World Championship medal won.
Matt Bush becomes GB’s first male Para Taekwondo World Champion in 2019.
With the support of Manchester City Council and UK Sport, GB Taekwondo hosts the 2019 World Championships in Manchester. At the event Jade Jones MBE becomes World Champion for the first time, Bradly Sinden becomes GB’s first male World Champion (able bodied) and Bianca Walkden take her third World Championship title.
After the COVID 19 lockdown delays the Games for a year, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games the GB Team win three medals with Bradly Sinden and Lauren Williams winning their first and Bianca Walkden her second. At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Beth Munro wins the Silver medal and Amy Truesdale the Bronze.
GB Taekwondo partners with Manchester City Council, UK Sport and World Taekwondo to launch the international Grand Prix series, hosting the 2013 final in Manchester.
One year after Amy Truesdale becomes World Para champion in 2014, the International Paralympic Committee announces that Taekwondo will be included in the Paralympic programme for the Tokyo Games.
With the support of Manchester City Council, Sport England, and UK Sport the Ten Acres Lane site is transformed to create the purpose-built National Taekwondo Centre.
The Rio cycle sees Bianca Walkden become World Champion and Jade Jones (now an MBE) and Charlie Maddock become European Games champions.
At the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Jade Jones MBE becomes Olympic Champion for the second time, Lutalo Muhammad wins a silver medal and Bianca Walkden a Bronze.
GB Taekwondo partners with English Institute of Sport (now the UKSI) to launch the Fighting Chance talent identification campaign, opening up the Olympic pathway. Graduates from the initiatives include future medallists Lutalo Muhammad and Damon Samsun.
A dilapidated sports hall in Ten Acres Lane is refurbished to provide a permanent base for the GB Taekwondo programme.
The GB Team wins four medals at the 2011 World Championships with Sarah Stevenson becoming World Champion for the second time.
At the London 2012 Olympic Games Jade Jones wins GB Taekwondo’s first Olympic Gold medal and Lutalo Muhammad the first men’s Olympic medal.
Following its inclusion in the Olympic programme for Sydney 2000, GB Taekwondo was formed in 2002 to develop a ‘World Class Programme’ to identify and develop the nation’s most promising Taekwondo athletes.
GB Taekwondo receives a significant injection of lottery and government investment in 2006, relocating its World Class Programme to Manchester and opening the ‘Feat Factory’ as a full-time training centre.
At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Sarah Stevenson win GB’s first Olympic medal.
Find out more about the stories that make GB Taekwondo: from community work, to podium highs and growing the sport of taekwondo.
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