Dr. Chungwon Choue was elected a third time as president of WTF
Dr. Chungwon Choue was elected a third time as president of the World Taekwondo Federation at the WTF General Assembly at the Scandic Copenhagen Hotel in Copenbhagen, Denmark on Oct. 13, 2009.
Out of a total of 150 votes cast, Dr. Choue garnered 104 votes against 45 by Thailand's Nat Indrapana, with one vote invalid. Choue was first elected president of the WTF in June 2004 for the remainder of his predecessor, and then was re-elected in May 2005 for a four-year term.
In the vice presidential elections, Mr. Sun-Jae Park, president of the Italian Taekwondo Federation; Gen. Ahmed Fouly, president of the African Taekwondo Union and vice president of the WTF; and Mr. Kamaladdin Heydarov, president of the Azerbaijan Taekwondo Federation and vice president of the WTF, were elected vice presidents of the WTF. There were five candidates for the vice presidency.
The General Assembly also elected 14 WTF Council members. They were 2 from Africa - Driss El-Hilali (Morocco) and Issaka Ide (Niger); 5 from Asia - Mohamed Al-Sulaiti (Qatar), Hong Sung-Chon (Philippines), Lee Kyu-Seok (Korea), Zhao Lei (China) and Sayed Mohammad Pouladgar (Iran); 4 from Europe - Fuzuli Musayev (Azerbaijan), Roger Piarulli (France), Jesus Castellanos Pueblas (Spain) and Metin Sahin (Turkey); 2 from Pan Am - Moon Dai Won (Mexico) and Mario Mandel Vaisman (Chile); and 1 from Oceania - Kim tae Kyung (New Zealand).