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This morning, the Chengbei Gymnasium was bustling with activity, and the third Chengdu-Chongqing Region Twin Cities Economy The Circle Taekwondo Open, the 7th Western Central City Taekwondo Open, and the 2022 Chengdu Youth Taekwondo Championship Trials are held here. It is reported that the competition will continue until tomorrow, with nearly a thousand athletes of different age groups participating in the competition, among which the number of registrations for young athletes has exceeded a new high, highlighting the positive development trend of this sport among Chengdu youth groups.
Registration for the younger age group is very popular
Taekwondo has been widely introduced into kindergartens
Red Star NewsThe reporter learned that this event is organized by Chengdu Sports Federation. Under the guidance of the Jinniu District Sports Federation, and sponsored by the Chongqing Taekwondo Association and the Chengdu Taekwondo Sports Association, the competition has four major categories: athletics, poomsae , stunts, and breaking. It is divided into infant group, children group, youth group, and adult group. There are four major groups, attracting nearly a thousand taekwondo enthusiasts aged 5 to 40 years old to participate. Participants will enter with negative nucleic acid test results within 48 hours.
Xu Chunxia, secretary-general of the Chengdu Taekwondo Sports Association, said that compared with previous events, a significant feature of this competition is that there has been a significant increase in younger players, especially the number of registrations for the children's group has exceeded the highest record. "This shows that our promotion and popularization of Taekwondo over the years has achieved good results. More and more children love this sport, and the folk foundation is getting stronger and stronger." Xu Chunxia said.
It is understood that the number of kindergartens in Chengdu that carry out Taekwondo learning has increased significantly in recent years, and the increase has even reached 50% compared with two years ago. The Chengdu Taekwondo Association often receives applications from kindergartens to send coaches. Currently, the Chengdu Taekwondo Association The number of individual and group members also ranks first in the country.
Why is Taekwondo so popular among children and parents? Xu Chunxia introduced that after years of promotion, Taekwondo’s sports spirit of “etiquette, integrity, self-improvement, and perseverance” has gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This sport can not only strengthen the body, but also cultivate young people’s willpower and team spirit to face setbacks. , contributes to the overall growth of teenagers, and is therefore welcomed by more and more parents. At the same time, there are more and more "cute kids" in the Taekwondo arena, which indicates that the future of Taekwondo in Chengdu is increasingly promising.
At the just-concluded 14th Provincial Games, the Chengdu Sports Delegation won a total of 17 medals in the taekwondo event, including 3 gold, 5 silver and 9 bronze medals, demonstrating its impressive comprehensive competitive strength.
High-standard and high-quality hosting of competitions
Accumulation of experience in hosting Universiade martial arts competitions
Chengbei Gymnasium is the venue for next year’s Universiade martial arts competition and the birthplace of the first Universiade gold medal. Through the holding of this competition, the organizational level and work efficiency of the Chengbei Stadium event service team have been further tested, and confidence has been accumulated for the successful hosting of the Universiade events.
"This event fully adopts the NTS event system. All aspects from early registration, check-in to game score processing, video playback, certificate printing and other aspects are all electronic, and the entire game is live broadcast online." Xu Chunxia told Red Star News reporter, the organizer A high-level referee team from Beijing was also specially invited to ensure that the organization and refereeing of the event reached international standards and ensured that the event was fair, open, just and efficient.
In 2020, the sports departments of Chengdu and Chongqing signed the "Twin Cities Linkage and Joint Promotion of Sports Integrated Development Cooperation Agreement". Individual associations of the two places, including Taekwondo, also signed relevant cooperation agreements, Chengdu and Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle The Taekwondo Open came into being. Over the past three years, exchanges between Taekwondo associations and private clubs in the two places have rapidly heated up, which has had a positive impact on the popularity of the project and the improvement of sports levels. "After this competition, the Taekwondo Associations of Chengdu and Chongqing will further deepen the scope of cooperation and carry out all-round cooperation in many aspects such as competitions, grade examinations, coach and referee training, etc., and strive to form a normalized communication mechanism to jointly promote the development of the project and provide It has made positive contributions to the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle," said Xu Chunxia.
Pu Yan Red Star News reporter Liu Haiyun
editor Ou Peng
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