Taejun Park (20, Kyunghee University), the lightweight star of Korean Taekwondo, has easily made it to the quarterfinals.

Ranked 5th in the world in Olympic sparring, Taejun Park defeated Yohandry Granado (Venezuela), ranked 29th in the world, with a round score of 2-0 (12-0 12-0) in the men’s 58kg class round of 16 at the 2024 Paris Olympics Taekwondo held at the Grand Palais in Paris,

France on the 7th (Korean time). Taejun Park, who won his first match, will advance to the quarterfinals starting at 9:30 PM today. His opponent in the quarterfinals will be ranked 11th in the world, Sirien Labé (France).

If Park Tae-jun defeats Labe in the quarterfinals, he will likely face Mohamed Khalil Zendoubi (Tunisia), the world number one in this weight class and a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, in the semifinals.

Park Tae-jun took the lead by scoring 12 points in the first round alone. Park Tae-jun swept 9 points with three consecutive kicks to the head and added 3 more points with a body attack.

Park Tae-jun scored 5 points with a body kick and a head attack just 1 minute into the second round, and with 46 seconds left in the second round, he succeeded in a roundhouse kick to the head, taking a 10-0 lead and deciding the match.

Park Tae-jun defeated Jang Jun (Korea Gas Corporation), a bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics and a gold medalist at the Hangzhou Asian Games, in the final selection in February of this year, successfully making his first Olympic appearance. Park Tae-jun will be challenging for a medal in his first Olympic appearance. Korea has never won a gold medal in this weight class. The best performance of Korean Taekwondo ‘Legend’ Lee Dae-hoon was the silver medal at the 2012 London Games, while Kim Tae-hoon and Jang Jun won bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Games and the 2021 Tokyo Games, respectively. 카지노사이트