Chokwenda, Muchakati to represent Zim at World Taekwondo Champs

Championships set for Kukkiwon Headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.
Chokwenda, who will fight in the featherweight division, left the country on Thursday in the company of coach Ndaona Kembo.
Muchakati was expected to leave yesterday accompanied by Zimbabwe Taekwondo Association secretary Patrick Karibe.
Karibe will be the head of delegation and is expected to attend the General Assembly and the symposium.
“We hope the two fighters will be able to go a long way at the world championships so that they improve our record on the world ratings.
“Our athletes are going to meet some of the best fighters in the world and we hope this opportunity will expose them to international competition.
“The World Championship are far more competitive than the All-Africa Games and we therefore hope it will be a platform for them to prepare for the continental games,” said Karibe.
Karibe said fighters who participate at the world championship will be given unique numbers that they will use as a licence across the world.
Fighters from more than 150 countries started trickling into Seoul from Monday and there will be a referees’ course today ahead of the World Taekwondo Federation council meeting.
“We faced a challenge in funding for the team but from the little that we have sourced out, we decided that Chokwenda and Kembo leave earlier,” he said.
“I will follow with Muchakati as we had received pledges from the Korean Community in Zimbabwe.”
Kukkiwon is the official taekwondo (Korean martial art) governing education centre and was established in 1972 by the South Korean government to spread the spirit and skills of taekwondo to the rest of the world.