polina khan

Russian taekwondo practitioner Polina Khan, is a European Championships and Grand Prix medallist, and a former World Junior Championships finalist. Khan has previously competed in the -67kg division, but more recently competed in the +67kg or -73kg division, and has been ranked in the Top 10 of both the Olympic and World Kyorugi Rankings.

Khan first found success on the international circuit at cadet level, picking up bronze medals at the Russian and Croatia Opens. She continued to find victory in the higher age brackets, scoring junior golds at the Serbia and Turkish Opens, and making appearances at the World Junior and European Junior Championships. She would later round off her youth career in style, taking a World Junior silver medal at Burnaby in 2016.

Khan’s first senior gold medal victory would come at the Fujairah Open, and she has since medalled at Open Tournaments across the world, picking up nine golds at events including the Russian, Polish, Riga and Dutch Opens. At the WT President’s Cup, she picked up bronzes in Tashkent and Athens, before claiming victory at the WT President’s Cup Europe in Helsingborg. At the Grand Prix, Khan made her debut in 2017 and picked up her first silverware with a second-place finish at the 2018 meet in Taoyuan. That same year, she finished third at the European Championships in Kazan to land her first senior medal at the continent-wide tournament.