The taekwondo world championships in Mexico are underway with eight Azzurri in the race

Eight Azzurri competing in Guadalajara are

ready and determined to win very important points for the race for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The largest competition organized by World Taekwondo resumes after the forced stop, due to the pandemic period, and will last until Sunday 20 November. 

The Centro Acuático CODE Metropolitano, an imposing sports palace located at 1673 meters above the sea level, is ready to welcome the 757 athletes registered by their respective national teams from all over the world. 

Among them the eight blue athletes called up by

determined to repeat the feat of

after winning the 2019 edition of the world championships. 

Simone Alessio himself, together with

, will return to race 4 as first in the world ranking.

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Italian National Taekwondo

The Azzurri in the race

(divided by weight categories and by race day order): 

-80 kg:

(Nov 14); 

-57 kg:

(Nov 14); 

-62 kg:

(15 Nov);

-87 kg:

(15 Nov);

-49 kg:

(Nov 16);

-63 kg:

(Nov 18);

-73 kg:

(Nov 19);

-58 kg:

(20 Nov)