Tournament

Has taken place since:

International Taekwon-Do Tournament “Cup of Peter the Great” has taken place annually since 1990.

Tournament status:

World Cup. It has status of Europe Open Cup since 1996. Since 2007 it has got a new status of world Cup.

Tournament venue:

Till 2004 the tournament was held at the biggest sports arena in Europe – Petersburg Sports and Concert complex (SKK). (Saint-Petersburg, 8,Gagarina av.) Since 2006 the Tournament is held in Sports Palace “Yubilejny” (Saint-Petersburg, 18, Dobrolubova av).

Participants:

Annually more then 200 competitors from 20 countries take part in the Tournament. The competitors are female and male black belt holders above 16 years old.

Participating countries:

England, Belarus, Belgium, Germany, Greenland, Georgia, Holland, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Finland, Croatia, Czechia, Scotland, Estonia, Japan

Tournament programme:

7 events:

- individual: Pattern, Sparring, Special Technique and Power Breaking

- team: Pattern, Sparring and Self-Defense Routine.

Umpires

Kim Yong Hun, VII Dan – Chairman;

Murat Sunetov, VI Dan – Vice-Chairman

Igor Scheglov, VI Dan – Vice-Chairman

Awards:

22 Medal sets and 24 Cups are to be won. The Overall Team winner will takes the main prize - Big Cup of Peter the Great .

Beside competition events:

Demonstration show performed by 200 pupils of the St-Petersburg Taekwon-Do Federation, Taekwon-Do Masters performance, Taekwon-Do museum and photo exhibition. You can also find auto show? Sports goods fair and so on.