Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
VenueMakuhari Messe
Dates24–27 July 2021
No. of events8
Competitors132 from 62 nations
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Makuhari Messe

Taekwondo was a sport at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and featured 128 taekwondo fighters competing in eight weight categories; four for men, and four for women.[1] The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Qualification

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Taekwondo competition[3] at these Games featured a total of 128 athletes, 64 males and 64 females, and 16 in each of the eight weight categories. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter up to one competitor per event, resulting in a maximum of eight competitors, four of each gender. In each weight class, five quota spots were available through World Taekwondo (WT) Olympic rankings, one quota spot was available through the WT Grand Slam Champions Series, nine quota spots were available through continental qualification events (two per continent, except Oceania with one), and quota spot was available either to the host (four classes chosen by the host, two per gender) or as a Tripartite Commission invitation (the remaining four classes).[4]

If an NOC had qualified at least two female or male athletes through ranking, it could not participate in the respective Continental Qualification Tournament unless it relinquished the places obtained through ranking. This included the host, Japan, with its automatic qualification of two women and two men.[4]

Schedule

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Schedule[5][6]
Event↓/Date → Jul 24 Jul 25 Jul 26 Jul 27
Men's 58 kg F
Men's 68 kg F
Men's 80 kg F
Men's +80 kg F
Women's 49 kg F
Women's 57 kg F
Women's 67 kg F
Women's +67 kg F

Participating

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Events by gender

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Weights 1 2 3 4
Men's 16 17 16 16
Women's 17 17 16 16

Participating nations

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Medal summary

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The 2020 Summer Olympics marked the first time that South Korea, which usually dominated the sport at the Olympics, had not won an Olympic gold medal in Taekwondo since the sport debuted in the 2000 Olympics.[7]

Medal table

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RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 ROC2114
2 Croatia1012
 Serbia1012
4 Italy1001
 Thailand1001
 United States1001
 Uzbekistan1001
8 Great Britain0213
9 South Korea0123
10 Jordan0101
 North Macedonia0101
 Spain0101
 Tunisia0101
14 Egypt0022
 Turkey0022
16 China0011
 Chinese Taipei0011
 Cuba0011
 France0011
 Israel0011
 Ivory Coast0011
Totals (21 entries)881632

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg)
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Vito Dell'Aquila
 Italy
Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi
 Tunisia
Jang Jun
 South Korea
Mikhail Artamonov
 ROC
Featherweight (68 kg)
details
Ulugbek Rashitov
 Uzbekistan
Bradly Sinden
 Great Britain
Hakan Reçber
 Turkey
Zhao Shuai
 China
Welterweight (80 kg)
details
Maksim Khramtsov
 ROC
Saleh Al-Sharabaty
 Jordan
Toni Kanaet
 Croatia
Seif Eissa
 Egypt
Heavyweight (+80 kg)
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Vladislav Larin
 ROC
Dejan Georgievski
 North Macedonia
In Kyo-don
 South Korea
Rafael Alba
 Cuba

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight (49 kg)
details
Panipak Wongpattanakit
 Thailand
Adriana Cerezo
 Spain
Tijana Bogdanović
 Serbia
Avishag Semberg
 Israel
Featherweight (57 kg)
details
Anastasija Zolotic
 United States
Tatiana Minina
 ROC
Lo Chia-ling
 Chinese Taipei
Hatice Kübra İlgün
 Turkey
Welterweight (67 kg)
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Matea Jelić
 Croatia
Lauren Williams
 Great Britain
Ruth Gbagbi
 Ivory Coast
Hedaya Wahba
 Egypt
Heavyweight (+67 kg)
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Milica Mandić
 Serbia
Lee Da-bin
 South Korea
Althéa Laurin
 France
Bianca Walkden
 Great Britain

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Taekwondo". Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". IOC. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Taekwondo at Summer Olympics Games 2021 live stream, Schedule, News, Wiki". Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b Tokyo 2020 – WTF Taekwondo Qualification System
  5. ^ "Schedule - Taekwondo Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Taekwondo Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  7. ^ Ji-Hwan, Paik (7 August 2024). "Korea invented Taekwondo. They've now been outperformed. Can this year's Olympians smash the slump?". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
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