Wuxi, December 19 (Xinhua) -- The finals of the 2023 World Taekwondo Team World Cup Championships were held in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province on the 19th, and the Chinese team defeated the Uzbekistan team 36:30 in the final to win the championship and qualified for the demonstration match of the Paris Olympics.
On December 16, in the women's 67kg final of the 2023 World Grand Slam Championship Series and Olympic Direct Card Competition, Song Jie (right) defeated teammate Zhang Mengyu to win the championship. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Huanyue) The World Taekwondo Team World Cup Championship is an event founded in Wuxi, with mixed team events. The World Taekwong Federation will also hold the World Cup finals in Wuxi every year. Taekwondo mixed team events were performed at the Tokyo Olympics and next year's Paris Olympics, and became an official event at the Asian Games and Youth Olympic Games. At the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese team won the championship.
According to the rules, each team of taekwondo mixed team competition is composed of two athletes each male and female, in addition to two substitute players, the game adopts a three-game cumulative score system, except for the first 4 minutes of the two sides according to gender and weight one-on-one confrontation for 1 minute, the last two games can be arbitrarily substituted on the premise of ensuring that the gender of the players on the court is the same.
In the match of the day, the Chinese team defeated the Indian team and the Brazilian team to enter the final, and the opponent was the Uzbekistan team that defeated the South Korean team. In the final, the four players of the Chinese team were female players Song Jie and Zhou Zeqi and male players Cui Yang and Meng Mingkuan, the first three of whom were all players in the winning team of the Chinese team in the Hangzhou Asian Games.
On September 27, in the men's 80kg taekwondo competition at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Cui Yang (left) defeated Hong Kong, China's Tan Zhengnan in the 1 16 knockout round. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Wenyao In the first game, Song Jie, who took the lead, scored consecutive headshots to help the Chinese team start 9:0. However, the Uzbekistan team, which has a good strength, has continued to chase points, once overtaken 14:10, Cui Yang scored valuable 3 points in the last moment of his game, and then Meng Mingkuan scored another 3 points, and the Chinese team led 16:14 in the first game. In the second game, the two teams played very closely, and the score also took the lead alternately, and the two games ended up in 20 draws.
After the third game was tied at 24, the Chinese team suddenly made a strong effort and scored 11 points in a row to lay the foundation for victory, and finally won 36:30. Zhou Zeqi said after the game that the main reason for winning this game is that everyone can unite and implement the tactics arranged by the coach. Meng Mingkuan, who participated in the team international competition for the first time, said that his task was not to let the opponent score, and the overall performance was okay.
The top three finishers in the competition qualified for the Paris Olympic demonstration event, and in addition to China and Uzbekistan, Brazil beat South Korea by a relatively small margin to qualify for another direct qualification. There are four teams competing in the Paris Olympic Demonstration Event, with the other quota going to the host country.