Team South Korea has secured five taekwondo quota places for this year’s Youth Olympic Games.
At the World Taekwondo’s qualification tournament for the 2018 Youth Olympics, which ended in Hammamet, Tunisia, on Saturday, South Korea saw five athletes earning Youth Olympic spots.
The 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games will be held from October 6 to October 18 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
South Korea only sent one taekwondo practitioner to the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.
At the Youth Olympic Games, there are five weight categories for both the male and female divisions.
A country can have a maximum of three men and three women athletes, with one athlete maximum per weight category.
At the qualification tournament, South Korea only failed to earn a Youth Olympic spot in the women’s 55kg category.
South Korea will send taekwondo athletes in the men’s 48kg, 55kg and 63kg categories, and the women’s 44kg and 49kg to the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.
Among the six South Korean athletes, only Kang Mi-reu earned a medal.
Kang won a silver after losing 14-9 to Russia’s Polina Shcherbakova in the women’s 44kg final.
South Korean taekwondo team earns five spots at Youth Olympic Games
