Australian Taekwondo thanks Deanna Kyriazopoulos for her service to the Australian Taekwondo Community.
Deanna Kyriazopoulos has stepped down from the Australian Taekwondo Board, effective immediately, as she prepares to welcome her baby and focus on starting her family.
Deanna brought valuable experience to the Board as a former Australian athlete, and now business owner. She has served as AT’s first Vice Chair and made a strong contribution to the Board and Nominations Committee.
AT thanks Deanna for her dedication and wishes her and her family all the very best in this exciting new chapter. We look forward to continuing to see Deanna at events in the future.
The Australian Taekwondo Board will take time to consider its options with the creation of the casual vacancy from Deanna’s resignation.
The Australian Poomsae Team has returned from the 2026 World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Chuncheon, South Korea, with three medals: one gold and two silver.
Over five days of competition at the largest World Poomsae Championships ever held, Australian athletes made history in both the cadet and masters divisions, and pushed deeper into the draw across more age groups than in recent campaigns.
When Taekwondo opens in Dakar this November, the green and gold will be seen on the mat for the very first time. Mackenzie Macdonald, a teenager from Wandong in regional Victoria, is Australia's first representative in Taekwondo at the Youth Olympic Games.
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