**World University Taekwondo Festival to be held in Daegu in July**

The World University Taekwondo Festival will be held this July in Daegu, South Korea, with more than 1,800 taekwondo athletes from more than 20 countries around the world.

The Daegu 2024 World University Taekwondo Festival will be held from July 5 to 9 at the Daegu Gyeymyeong University Gymnasium.

It will be a place for international exchange of K-Taekwondo, where more than 2,000 people, including 1,800 athletes from 20 countries, including 500 overseas athletes from the United States, Canada, India, China, Japan, Nepal, and Brazil, and 1,300 domestic athletes, as well as their accompanying families, will gather to share the value of sports and cultural exchange through taekwondo.

The Daegu 2024 World University Taekwondo Festival is a festival where university taekwondo athletes representing each country compete in events such as kukkiwon and poomsae, and exchange diverse cultures through taekwondo across borders. Elite collegiate taekwondo teams and club teams will compete at Gyemyungdae and share their passion for taekwondo and the culture of their respective countries.

The competition is divided into three divisions: Division 1 (G1, Individual Competition, Poomsae), [토토사이트](https://www.safetotosite.pro/) Division 2 (Black Belt University Division: 3Vs3, Poomsae / High School Division: Individual Competition and Poomsae), and Division 3 (Color Belt, Poomsae).

This is the first FISU-sanctioned event to be organized by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) and the International University Sports Federation (FISU), which is a collaboration between the two IOC-affiliated organizations. In particular, it is the only event to continue the tradition of the University Taekwondo Championships since it was integrated into the Summer Universiade.

FISU President Leonz Eder (Switzerland) and FISU Secretary General Eric Saintrond (Belgium) have been invited by the WTF Rowing President to visit the festival.

The main focus of the event will be the GI class World Taekwondo Championships, which are eligible for Olympic ranking points.

It is the first of the tournaments that will award ranking points to qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and is expected to attract elite collegiate taekwondo athletes.

Meanwhile, Daegu, the host city of the tournament, is scheduled to hold the tournament for three years from July 2024 to 2026, starting with the first tournament in July 2024, and will utilize it as an opportunity to revitalize the local economy and continue to revisit the city through local cultural and tourism experiences for the 2,000 athletes, officials, and accompanying families visiting Daegu.

The tournament venue, Kyemyung University, has the only taekwondo department and taekwondo center in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region, and in particular, the Korea Taekwondo Center at Kyemyung University was selected as the final venue for the tournament due to its well-established taekwondo infrastructure, which is used as a training ground for national athletes from various countries.

"Through this tournament, we want to give university and grassroots athletes who have never participated in international competitions the opportunity to participate in the international stage and make them dream," said Professor Jung Byung-ki of the Department of Taekwondo at Keimyung University, who is the secretary-general of the Taekwondo Festival. "If there is political stability in both the North and the South, we would like to create an identity as a tournament that sends a message of peace to the younger generation through the participation of athletes from the North and athletes from the conflict zone.