Background. Although the World Taekwondo federation currently applies the APIS ranking method to calculate the Olympic rankings, some limitations exist. Objectives. This study applies the PageRank model to Olympics Taekwondo rankings. Methods. The 2015-2018 World Taekwondo Grand Prix competition results for women's four weight classes (-49kg, -57kg, -67kg, +67kg) were used as research data, totaling 624 games. Excel and NetMiner programs were used to calculate the PageRank value, and the damping factor d was set to 0.15. Results.
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