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The World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge 2025 opened on August 28 at the Muju Taekwondowon, South Korea, with 334 athletes from 30 nations, along with Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) and the Taekwondo Refugee Team (TRT).
Day 1 featured action in the Women’s -49 kg and Men’s -80 kg divisions, both filled with top-ranked seeds.
The city of Gold Coast, Queensland, hosted one of the key events on the international taekwondo calendar: the Australian Open 2025, held on August 14–15 with competitions for both senior and para Taekwondo (Kyorugi).
Seoul, South Korea – August 2025. The official list of candidates for the World Taekwondo (WT) elections has been confirmed, and current President Dr. Chungwon Choue will be re-elected automatically as he faces no challengers. With this result, the South Korean leader, who has been in office since 2004, will complete 25 years at the helm of the organization by the end of his new term in 2029.
Taekwondo Malaysia (TM) is facing a serious crisis following a police report filed by a female staff member at its headquarters on April 21, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur. The report accuses Master Loke Shee Hee, Chairman of the TM Referees Board, of molestation and sexual harassment.
An official email signed by Olympic referee Marcelo Rezende has been exposed, denouncing serious conflicts of interest involving Dennis Berdugo at a G2 event in 2022. Although he was removed from the coordination of Poomsae, he continues to hold power in PATU as Director of Sport and member of the Executive Council. With the President's Cup in Lima just around the corner—and with his children already registered as competitors—the question is inevitable: what decision will the leadership make?
USA Taekwondo (USATKD) has issued an official statement announcing the immediate implementation of its Athlete Protection and Gender Participation Guidelines within its competition rules. The central change: all competitors who were assigned male at birth must compete in the men’s divisions at USATKD-sanctioned events in the United States. The federation frames the update within “recent federal directives and U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee mandates,” and reiterates that its events are grounded in respect, safety, and fair play, within an inclusive environment free from discrimination and harassment.
Complete Results of Taekwondo in the 2025 Junior Pan American Games, toke place on August...
What MASTKD warned yesterday has now played out on the mat. At Asunción 2025, Dennis Berdugo, the Director of Sport for the Pan American Taekwondo Union (PATU), amassed extraordinary control over how Poomsae would be run—and, according to coaches, team officials, and event documents reviewed by MASTKD, used that discretion to shape the competition in ways that directly advantaged his own family, with his wife on the chair and two children on the start list.
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Official documents, competition records, and the statutes of the Pan American Taekwondo Union (PATU), World Taekwondo (WT), and the Olympic Charter reveal a serious and ongoing conflict of interest at the Junior Pan American Games Asunción 2025.
Dennis Berdugo, PATU’s Director of Sport, currently has two of his children registered to compete this Sunday in subjective-scoring events, with his wife serving as the official coach of the national team. The competition format for these events was altered from that used throughout the entire qualification cycle — a change that runs directly counter to PATU’s own statutes.
MASTKD – On July 26, 2025, during the semifinals of the Youth 10–11 Black Belt Poomsae division at the U.S. National Taekwondo Championships, a technical scoring error by a referee led to an internal review that has now been officially closed by USA Taekwondo (USATKD).
The organization released a detailed After Action Report outlining the findings, corrective actions, and measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.
