London 2012: Taekwondo progress report

Podium athletes 8 Development athletes 10 UK Sport Mission 2012 progress rating Green Gary Hall, performance director In the past year we have … narrowly missed out on four medals at the 2009 senior world championships. Top level medal targets were not achieved last year. In 2010 we have hit our maximum medal target following our best ever showing in a major international at the ETU European Championships in Russia. We now have two players ranked No1 in the world, Sarah Stevenson and Aaron Cook. In the next two years we will ... target a strong performance at the 2011 World Championships in South Korea and the next 10 months will have a major bearing on the team who will feature there and the Olympics. The British International Championships take place in Manchester in September so that will be an early gauge of our progress against world-class opposition. Medal tally prediction … Two to three.