Wuxi 2025 World Taekwondo Championships concludes with golds for Türkiye and Uzbekistan
WUXI, China – The Wuxi 2025 World Taekwondo Championships concluded with gold medals for Türkiye’s Merve Dinçel Kavurat in the Women’s -53kg weight category and Uzbekistan’s Najmiddin Kosimkhojiev in the Men’s -74kg.
WUXI, China – The Wuxi 2025 World Taekwondo Championships concluded with gold medals for Türkiye’s Merve Dinçel Kavurat in the Women’s -53kg weight category and Uzbekistan’s Najmiddin Kosimkhojiev in the Men’s -74kg.
Dinçel Kavurat added to her -49kg gold at the Baku 2023 World Taekwondo Championships, and in doing so sealed her country’s place at the top of the Wuxi 2025 medal standings. Türkiye’s third gold was secured through Dinçel Kavurat’s victory against Dunya Ali Abutaleb of Saudi Arabia in the final, with Egypt’s Jana Khattab and China’s Chuling Zhang taking bronze.
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Kosimkhojiev won the final match of Wuxi 2025, sealing Uzbekistan’s first gold against Brazil’s Edival Pontes. Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN) Magomed Abdusalamov and Iran’s Amir Sina Bakhtiari earned the bronze medals.
Women’s -53kg
Dinçel Kavurat’s second World Taekwondo Championships gold came with an entertaining victory against top seed Abutaleb in the final. The defending champion pinched the first round from her opponent, striking with a flurry of late points to win 6-2. She then produced a controlled display in the second, preventing Abutaleb from scoring and winning 2-0.
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Earlier in the day, Dinçel Kavurat had beaten Olympic bronze medallist Mobina Nematzadeh of Iran in the quarter-finals and the second seed Jana Khattab of Egypt in the semi-finals.
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In the other half of the draw, Abutaleb overcame Zhang in the semi-finals. Abutaleb earned Saudi Arabia’s first medal of Wuxi 2025 with her silver, while Zhang took China’s medal tally up to nine at their home World Taekwondo Championships, of which eight were bronze.
Men’s -74kg
Kosimkhojiev’s debut at the World Taekwondo Championships produced the perfect result as he overcame the Olympic bronze medallist Pontes to win gold. The final featured two closely fought rounds, but Kosimkhojiev edged them both 4-2 and 5-3 for victory.
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He had earlier won a thrilling semi-final against AIN Abdusalamov in three rounds, while Pontes beat Bakhtiari in two rounds. Pontes’ silver matched his result from the Guadalajara 2022 World Taekwondo Championships.
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In a hotly contested weight category, the top three seeds all missed out on the podium – Zurab Kintsurashvil of Georgia was defeated in the round of 64 by Dominican Republic’s Bernardo Pié, Victor Rodrigues of the USA lost in the quarter-finals to Abdusalamov, and Serbia’s two-time World Taekwondo Championships medallist Stefan Takov was beaten in the round of 32 by Egypt’s Rami Eissa.
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The 2027 World Taekwondo Championships will take place in Astana, Kazakhstan.
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