Abstract An attempt was made to investigate the relationship between state anxiety and performance in Taekwondo. Sixty (60) female Taekwondo players were randomly selected from different colleges of University of Delhi, with minimum intercollegiate level participation. A questionnaire of Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2) was used to collect the data. For assessing the relationship of somatic anxiety, cognitive anxiety and self-confidence with the performance of Taekwondo players the Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (r) were used with the level of significance was set at 0.05. The taekwondo performance of the players were evaluated by the panel of five taekwondo experts on the basis of subjective observation of the player’s performance during the series of the matches during the course of the competition and each experts evaluated each players out of 10 points. The results of co-efficient correlation respectively as follows: somatic anxiety and Taekwondo performance was 0.688*, cognitive anxiety and Taekwondo performance was 0.848*, self-confidence and Taekwondo performance was 0.819* and total competitive state anxiety and Taekwondo performance was 0.782*. On the basic of analysis the following statements are drawn: the somatic anxiety, the cognitive anxiety, self-confidence, self confidence and total state anxiety was significant with the Taekwondo performance.