The Mexican city of Acapulco hosted the 2024 Pan American Wrestling Championships from 21-24 February. Team USA won the team trophies in all three categories and took home all 10 gold medals in freestyle wrestling.

New Zealand is in danger of being left without an Olympic quota in taekwondo. On 30th January Taekwondo New Zealand (TNZ) announced the names of the four athletes selected to represent New Zealand at the upcoming 2024 Oceania Olympic Qualifiers Tournament. Cole Creich-Watene (men's -58kg), Eisa Mozhdeh (men's -68kg), Jamie Carpenter (women's -57kg) and Jemesa Landers (women's -67kg) were due to compete for qualification spots at the continental qualifiers. However, their participation at Paris 2024 will be in doubt even if they win the continental tournament.

On the 2nd of March, ADXC 3 arrives at the Balneário Camboriú, in Santa Catarina, with an explosive list of fights, and two more fights have been confirmed. The preliminary card, in the flyweight division, features a jiu-jitsu duel between Zayed Alkhateeri and Oziel Santos.

The Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) Jordan project in the Azraq refugee camp has been running since 2016. It has shown significant results through the "Humanitarian Taekwondo Center" opened in 2018, where children can practice taekwondo in the best conditions.

Brazilian taekwondo kyorugi athletes were the best at the Canada Open a week ago, and they did the same at the US Open, which took place from 16-18 February.

In the absence of the Olympic athletes, who are in Turkey preparing for the Games, the next generation pushed the more experienced athletes to the limit at the French Senior Taekwondo Championships this weekend at the FDI Stadium in Montpellier.

Combat SAMBO competitions will be held as part of The World Games to be held in Chengdu, People's Republic of China, from 7-17 August 2025.

Eight years have passed since Georgian legend Lasha Talakhadze won the European title at the age of 23 in Forde, Norway. Since then, he has given none of his opponents a chance of winning a World, European or Olympic gold medal.

Taekwondo is one of the most important sports in Jordan. In 2016, taekwondo fighter Ahmad Abughaush won Jordan's first official Olympic medal by topping the podium in the -68kg category, before Saleh El Sharabaty (-80kg) added a second medal five years later in Tokyo with a silver. 

As expected, the fight for gold in the men's 102 kg was breathtaking. Two of the three weightlifters competing for gold will be among the medal contenders at Paris 2024 in one of the toughest weight classes.

Canada's Skylar Park was a rookie Olympian at Tokyo 2020, trying to make sense of the most pressure-packed competition of her life in the middle of a pandemic. Now she is preparing for her second Games as one of the leaders in the Olympic women's 57kg category.

Azerbaijan topped the medals table at the Judo Baku Grand Slam 2024. They won eight medals, including three golds. The final gold medal for the hosts was won by Murad Fatiyev in the men's -90kg, who defeated top seed Krisztian Toth in the final.

The National Parataekwondo Team, which will represent Spain at the Continental Pre-Olympic Championships in Sofia (Bulgaria) on the 8th of March, will be training at the CTD R. Murcia from the 12th to the 21st of February.

Türkiye's Taha Akgul, the most successful European freestyle wrestler of all time, won his 11th European title in the last 12 years. His opponent in the 125kg final at the 2024 European Wrestling Championships was, as expected, Georgia's Geno Petriashvili.