World Taekwondo Gala Awards

The World Taekwondo Gala Awards are an annual award ceremony hosted by World Taekwondo. The first edition was on 5 December 2014 in Querétaro, Mexico.

World Taekwondo Gala Awards
Presented byWorld Taekwondo
First awarded5 December 2014 (2014-12-05)

Ceremonies

The ceremonies are typically held one day after the annual Grand Prix final and hosted in the same city.

Edition Date Venue Ref
1 5 December 2014 Centro de Congresos Queretaro, Querétaro [1]
2 7 December 2015 Mexico National Theater, Mexico City [2]
3 11 December 2016 Badamdar Hotel, Baku [3][4]
4 4 December 2017 Radisson Blue Hotel, Abidjan [5][6]
5 23 November 2018 Fujairah National Theater, Fujairah [7]
6 7 December 2019 Lotte Plaza Hotel, Moscow [8][9]

Winners

Player of the Year
Year Winner
Male Female
2014 Lee Dae-hoon Jade Jones
2015 Lee Dae-hoon Wu Jingyu
2016 Ahmad Abughaush Jade Jones
2017 Lee Dae-hoon Bianca Walkden
2018 Lee Dae-hoon İrem Yaman
2019 Jang Jun Panipak Wongpattanakit

Kick of the Year
Year Winner
2014
2015 Aaron Cook
2016 Cheick Sallah Cissé
2017 Aaron Cook
2018 Aaron Cook
2019 In Kyo-don

Fair Play Award
Year Winner(s) Event
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019 Mahama Cho and Ruslan Zhaparov 2019 Grand Prix Series 1 men's +80 kg semi-finals

Coach of the Year
Year Winner Team/Athlete(s)
2014 Bang Young-in Mexico national taekwondo team
2015 Gulash Alonso Egypt national taekwondo team
2016 Reza Mehmandoust Azerbaijan national taekwondo team
2017 Dragan Jović Milica Mandić, Tijana Bogdanović, Vanja Stanković (Taekwondo Club Galeb)
2018 Ali Şahin Turkey national taekwondo team
2019 Reza Mehmandoust Azerbaijan national taekwondo team

Member National Association (MNA) of the Year
Year Winner
2014 Mexican Taekwondo Federation
2015 Russian Taekwondo Federation
2016 Azerbaijan Taekwondo Federation
2017 Korea Taekwondo Association
2018

UAE Taekwondo Federation
Italian Taekwondo Federation

2019 Russian Taekwondo Federation

Referee of the Year
Year Winner
Male Female
2014 Neydis Tavarez
2015 Tarik Benradi Kalay Suddai
2016 Kim Song-chul Maria Merkouri
2017 Abdelkhalek Chbibi Julie Dib
2018 Mohamed Adel Abdelfattah Ksenia Choucha
2019 Denis Kim Ksenia Levai

National Team of the Year
Year Winner
2014
2015
2016
2017 Korea national taekwondo team
2018
2019

Best Continental Union of the Year
Year Winner
2014
2015
2016
2017 World Taekwondo Africa
2018
2019

Most Improved MNA of the Year
Year Winner
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019 Brazilian Taekwondo Federation

References
  1. "Find out who got the Awards at the Gala Awards Dinner". en.mastkd.com. 2014-12-08. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  2. Dec 8, epau84 |; news 1 | 0 |, 2015 | Slide (2015-12-08). "WTF honors top athletes at 2015 Gala as announces Canada 2016 Junior Champs". WTM. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  3. Dec 12, epau84 |; news 1 | 0 |, 2016 | Slide (2016-12-12). "Jones (GBR) and Abughaush (JOR) named Players of the Year". WTM. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  4. "9-13 December 2016 World Taekwondo GP Final and WTF Gala Awards and World Taekwondo Team Championships Baku, Azerbaijan - Taekwondo WTF Centr-Vostok". centrvostok.wtf-vao.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  5. "OZ". www.oz.com. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  6. "Walkden and Lee named Athletes of the Year at World Taekwondo Gala Awards". www.insidethegames.biz. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  7. Dept, WT Communications (2018-11-24). "Yaman, Lee Named WT's 'Players of the Year' at 5th Annual Gala Awards". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  8. Dept, WT Communications (2019-12-08). "Jang and Wongpattanakit crowned athletes of the year at World Taekwondo Gala Awards 2019". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  9. "Jang and Wongpattanakit crowned athletes of the year at World Taekwondo Gala Awards 2019". en.mastkd.com. 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2019-12-19.



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