World Cadet Taekwondo Championship next year due in Baku next year

Source: AzerNews

Azerbaijan has been selected as the host country of the first WTF World Cadet Taekwondo Championships to take place in 2014. The decision was made during a WTF Council meeting at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The Council also made selections of the host countries of major WTF events.

Cote d`Ivoire beating Gabon and Tunisia earned the right to host the 2013 WTF World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships in Abidjan on November 28-30. Great Britain will host the inaugural WTF World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Manchester in mid-December.

Russia will hold the biennial World Taekwondo Championships in the city of Chelyabinsk on September 16-23, 2015.

Mexico won the right to host the 9th WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Queretaro in 2014, while Vietnam earned the right to host the 10th WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Ho Chi Minh City in 2015.

The Council unanimously approved enactment proposals for the WTF World Taekwondo Grand-Prix Standing Procedures and the WTF Para-Taekwondo Championships Bylaws.

The Council also approved amendment proposals for the WTF World Ranking Bylaws, the Olympic Standing Procedures and the Election Bylaws.