1997 World Taekwondo Championships

Host City Hong Kong
Country HKG
Held 19 – 23 November 1997
Competitors 64
Countries 23

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
-50 kg Men Medal 4 4
-54 kg Men Medal 4 4
-58 kg Men Medal 4 4
-64 kg Men Medal 4 4
-70 kg Men Medal 4 4
-76 kg Men Medal 4 4
-83 kg Men Medal 4 4
+83 kg Men Medal 4 4
-43 kg Women Medal 4 4
-47 kg Women Medal 4 4
-51 kg Women Medal 4 4
-55 kg Women Medal 4 4
-60 kg Women Medal 4 4
-65 kg Women Medal 4 4
-70 kg Women Medal 4 4
+70 kg Women Medal 4 4

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 South Korea KOR 11 1 2 14
2 Chinese Taipei TPE 2 2 5 9
3 Spain ESP 2 0 4 6
4 Egypt EGY 1 0 0 1
5 France FRA 0 2 1 3
= Iran IRI 0 2 1 3
7 China CHN 0 1 1 2
= Cuba CUB 0 1 1 2
= Greece GRE 0 1 1 2
= Turkey TUR 0 1 1 2
11 Canada CAN 0 1 0 1
= Germany GER 0 1 0 1
= Morocco MAR 0 1 0 1
= Philippines PHI 0 1 0 1
= Russia RUS 0 1 0 1
16 Mexico MEX 0 0 4 4
17 Australia AUS 0 0 3 3
18 Croatia CRO 0 0 2 2
= United States USA 0 0 2 2
20 Ecuador ECU 0 0 1 1
= Saudi Arabia KSA 0 0 1 1
= Thailand THA 0 0 1 1
= Yugoslavia YUG 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
-50 kg, Men Juan Antonio Ramos ESP Roberto Cruz PHI Lee Hou-Kun
Nazım Yılmaz
TPE
TUR
-54 kg, Men Jin Seung-Tae KOR Tsai Yi-Ya TPE Geraldhy Altamirano
Ludovic Vo
ECU
FRA
-58 kg, Men Huang Chih-Hsiung TPE Mehdi Bibak IRI Liu Chuang
Óscar Salazar
CHN
MEX
-64 kg, Men Kim In-Dong KOR Ekrem Boyalı TUR Luis Rafael Zúñiga
Hsu Chi-Hung
MEX
TPE
-70 kg, Men Tamer Hussein EGY Christophe Négrel FRA Sim Gi-Sun
Zoran Krajčinović
KOR
YUG
-76 kg, Men José Jesús Márquez Sánchez ESP Marco Scheiterbauer GER Kim Gyeong-Hun
Madjid Aflaki Khamesh
KOR
IRI
-83 kg, Men Lee Dong-Wan KOR Juan Escobar CUB Rubén Montesinos
Michalis Tolios
ESP
GRE
+83 kg, Men Kim Je-Kyung KOR Hassan Aslani IRI Khaled Al-Dosari
Nelson Sáenz
KSA
CUB
-43 kg, Women Yang So-Hui KOR Li Huang CHN Thy Vy Sok
Kay Poe
AUS
USA
-47 kg, Women Chi Shu-Ju TPE Yun Song-Hui KOR Kylie Treadwell
Mandy Meloon
AUS
USA
-51 kg, Women Hwang Eun-Suk KOR Roxane Forget CAN Lauren Burns
Elisabeth Delgado
AUS
ESP
-55 kg, Women Jeong Jae-Eun KOR Carine Zelmanovitch FRA Lai Hsiu-Wen
Raveevadee Pansombut
TPE
THA
-60 kg, Women Gang Hae-Eun KOR Hung Chia-Chun TPE Luisa Arnanz
Miet Filipović
ESP
CRO
-65 kg, Women Cho Hyang-Mi KOR Morfou Drosidou GRE Marlene Ramírez
Hsu Chih-Ling
MEX
TPE
-70 kg, Women Wu Eun-Joung KOR Mounia Bourguigue MAR Mónica del Real
Ireane Ruíz
MEX
ESP
+70 kg, Women Jung Myoung-Suk KOR Nataliya Ivanova RUS Nataša Vezmar
Chiu Meng-Jen
CRO
TPE