The 2024 World Junior Taekwondo Championships are set to kick off tomorrow (October 1). Follow the readiness of the Thai national youth taekwondo team from the report.
Movement of the Thai national youth taekwondo team competing in the 2024 Chuncheon 2024 World Taekwondo Junior Championships in Chuncheon, South Korea, which will take place between 1-6 October 2024. “Coach Chit” Wichit Sittikan, along with Coach Park Hee Kang, the Thai national taekwondo team coach, traveled to a team manager meeting at the Hotel Bear.
With Jo Jeong-won, President of the World Taekwondo Federation, welcoming the team managers, coaches and youth athletes from around the world, increasing to more than 1,000 people who traveled to compete from 127 member countries, including athletes from neutral countries and refugee teams, competing for 20 gold medals in 10 weight categories for both men and women. The Thai youth kicker team sent 16 people to compete, divided into 8 men and 8 women. The President of the World Taekwondo Feder
ation said that South Koreans welcome all taekwondo practitioners. He hopes that this competition will create an impression and be pure and fair.
As for the readiness of the competition venue at Songgam Sports Tower Air Dome in Chuncheon, officials have come to prepare the area, the competition venue, install the scoring system, monitors, and prepare to set up the live broadcast system, including rehearsing the opening ceremony performance.
The 16 young Thai kickers continued their training at the training ground near the actual competition venue in Songgam Sports Town, with ‘Coach Tor’ Peerathep Sila-on, the coach of the Thai national taekwondo team, overseeing them closely, emphasizing the tactics that will be used on the actual competition day, including scoring, body kicks, head kicks, and testing physical fitness, which took about 1 hour.
‘Coach Chit’ Wichit Sittikan revealed after the team manager meeting that the weigh-in and division of the category is scheduled by the host to be done on a daily ba
sis. On the first day, Thai youth athletes will compete in 3 categories: ‘Nong Bua’ Panbua Moramat in the 52 kg female category; ‘Nong Nom Sen’ Natnicha Saimuang in the 59 kg female category; and ‘Nong Boom’ Nattawat Boonchang in the 63 kg male category. All 3 are ready, both physically and mentally. As for the chance of winning a medal, we will have to look at the competition bracket first.
‘Nong Nom Sen’ Natnicha, a 16-year-old female kicker from Phuket, a bronze medalist at the 2024 Korea Open Youth, ‘Nong Bua’ Panbua, a 16-year-old from Bangkok, the gold medalist at the 2023 Asian Youth Championships, 52 kg category in Lebanon, ‘Nong Boom’ Nattawat, a 15-year-old from Bangkok, a bronze medalist at the 2023 World Youth Championships in Bosnia, 61 kg category, all said that they are 100% ready to compete, intending to do their best in each round with the goal of winning a medal and asking for support from Thai sports fans.
The 2024 World Junior Taekwondo Championships will be held at the Songgum Sports To
wer Air Dome in Chuncheon, South Korea, starting on October 1st.
Source: Thai News Agency