World Taekwondo Gala Awards

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.

World Taekwondo Gala Awards
Presented byWorld Taekwondo
First awarded5 December 2014 (2014-12-05)

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   Centro de Congresos Queretaro, Querétaro [1]
2 7 December 2015   Mexico National Theater, Mexico City [2]
3 11 December 2016   Badamdar Hotel, Baku [3][4]
4 4 December 2017   Radisson Blue Hotel, Abidjan [5][6]
5 23 November 2018   Fujairah National Theater, Fujairah [7]
6 7 December 2019   Lotte Plaza Hotel, Moscow [8][9]

Winners

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Player of the Year

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Year Winner
Male Female
2014   Lee Dae-hoon   Jade Jones
2015   Lee Dae-hoon   Wu Jingyu
2016   Ahmad Abughaush   Jade Jones
2017   Lee Dae-hoon   Bianca Walkden
2018   Lee Dae-hoon   İrem Yaman
2019   Jang Jun   Panipak Wongpattanakit

Kick of the Year

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Year Winner
2014
2015   Aaron Cook
2016   Cheick Sallah Cissé
2017   Aaron Cook
2018   Aaron Cook
2019   In Kyo-don

Fair Play Award

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Year Winner(s) Event
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019   Mahama Cho and   Ruslan Zhaparov   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  Bang Young-in   Mexico national taekwondo team
2015   Gulash Alonso   Egypt national taekwondo team
2016   Reza Mehmandoust   Azerbaijan national taekwondo team
2017   Dragan Jović   Milica Mandić, Tijana Bogdanović, Vanja Stanković (Taekwondo Club Galeb)
2018   Ali Şahin   Turkey national taekwondo team
2019   Reza Mehmandoust   Azerbaijan national taekwondo team

Member National Association (MNA) of the Year

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

  UAE Taekwondo Federation
  Italian Taekwondo Federation

2019   Russian Taekwondo Federation

Referee of the Year

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Year Winner
Male Female
2014   Neydis Tavarez
2015   Tarik Benradi   Kalay Suddai
2016   Kim Song-chul   Maria Merkouri
2017   Abdelkhalek Chbibi   Julie Dib
2018   Mohamed Adel Abdelfattah   Ksenia Choucha
2019   Denis Kim   Ksenia Levai

National Team of the Year

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

Best Continental Union of the Year

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Year Winner
2014
2015
2016
2017   World Taekwondo Africa
2018
2019

Most Improved MNA of the Year

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Year Winner
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019   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.