Vladislav Larin marked his return to action with gold at the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Taiyuan after the Russian Olympic champion was controversially cleared to compete.

The Security Service of Ukraine is considering opening a case against Russian Olympic taekwondo champion Vladislav Larin, it has been reported.

Russian Olympic gold medallists Maksim Khramtsov and Vladislav Larin were absent from the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Paris, despite controversially being cleared to compete by the governing body.

Russian Olympic champions Maksim Khramtsov and Vladislav Larin have been cleared by World Taekwondo to compete as individual neutrals at next month's Grand Prix in Paris, despite being banned from the World Championships in Baku.

Banned Russian pair Vladislav Larin and Maxim Khramtsov were not accredited at the World Taekwondo Championships, an investigation has found, and operated at the event outside of organisers' jurisdiction. 

World Taekwondo has launched an investigation to see if any rules were broken after banned Russians Vladislav Larin and Maxim Khramtsov attended the World Championships in Baku.

Two Russian Olympic champions who have openly supported the war in Ukraine have had their applications to compete at the World Taekwondo Championships in Azerbaijan's capital Baku rejected.

World Taekwondo is assessing whether or not to allow Russia's Maksim Khramtsov and Vladislav Larin at its upcoming World Championships in Baku scheduled for May 29 to June 5 after the pair openly supported the war in Ukraine.

The Taekwondo Union of Russia's Executive Committee have included Olympic champion Maksim Khramtsov and Vladislav Larin in its list of participants for the upcoming World Taekwondo Championships in Baku.

Serbia’s Milica Mandić secured Olympic taekwondo gold for the second time - nine years after winning her first - after seeing off South Korea’s Lee Da-bin, while there was more gold medal success for ROC at the Tokyo 2020 Games here.

Russia's recently-crowned men's over-80 kilogram world champion Vladislav Larin earned gold at the World Taekwondo Grand Prix Series opener in Rome. 

Croatia's Iva Radoš won an all-Balkan dual over reigning Olympic champion Milica Mandic of Serbia on the final day of the European Taekwondo Championships in Montreux today as Bianca Walkden became Britain's third female gold medal winner.

Home favourite Radik Isaev capped off an extremely productive four days of taekwondo for the European Games host nation Azerbaijan by winning the men’s over 80 kilogram category title here.