Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Competitors	103 from 51 nations
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Taekwondo was held at the State Sports Centre in Sydney Olympic Park.

Taekwondo was contested as an official sport at the Olympic Games for the first time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. It had previously been a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992. Medals were awarded in four weight classes each for men and women. Tran Hieu Ngan became the first Vietnamese Olympic medalist in this competition. ^[1]

Qualification

Further information: Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg) details	Michail Mouroutsos   Greece	Gabriel Esparza   Spain	Huang Chih-hsiung   Chinese Taipei
Lightweight (68 kg) details	Steven López   United States	Sin Joon-sik   South Korea	Hadi Saei   Iran
Middleweight (80 kg) details	Ángel Matos   Cuba	Faissal Ebnoutalib   Germany	Víctor Estrada   Mexico
Heavyweight (+80 kg) details	Kim Kyong-hun   South Korea	Daniel Trenton   Australia	Pascal Gentil   France

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (49 kg) details	Lauren Burns   Australia	Urbia Melendez   Cuba	Chi Shu-ju   Chinese Taipei
Lightweight (57 kg) details	Jung Jae-eun   South Korea	Tran Hieu Ngan   Vietnam	Hamide Bıkçın Tosun   Turkey
Middleweight (67 kg) details	Lee Sun-hee   South Korea	Trude Gundersen   Norway	Yoriko Okamoto   Japan
Heavyweight (+67 kg) details	Chen Zhong   China	Natalia Ivanova   Russia	Dominique Bosshart   Canada

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Australia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	1	0	4
2	Australia*	1	1	0	2
	Cuba	1	1	0	2
4	China	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
7	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
	Vietnam	0	1	0	1
12	Chinese Taipei	0	0	2	2
13	Canada	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

A total of 103 taekwondo athletes from 51 nations competed at the Sydney Games:

•   Argentina  (2)
•   Australia  (8)
•   Austria  (1)
•   Benin  (1)
•   Brazil  (1)
•   Canada  (1)
•   Chile  (1)
•   China  (3)
•   Chinese Taipei  (4)
•   Colombia  (1)
•   Ivory Coast  (1)
•   Croatia  (1)
•   Cuba  (4)
•   Denmark  (2)
•   Egypt  (3)
•   Finland  (2)
•   France  (2)
•   Germany  (3)
•   Great Britain  (2)
•   Greece  (3)
•   Guatemala  (1)
•   Hungary  (1)
•   Indonesia  (1)
•   Iran  (2)
•   Italy  (3)
•   Japan  (2)
•   Jordan  (1)
•   Kuwait  (1)
•   Lesotho  (2)
•   Libya  (1)
•   Malaysia  (1)
•   Mexico  (3)
•   Monaco  (1)
•   Morocco  (3)
•   Netherlands  (2)
•   Nicaragua  (1)
•   Norway  (1)
•   Philippines  (4)
•   Russia  (2)
•   Saudi Arabia  (1)
•   Slovenia  (1)
•   South Africa  (1)
•   South Korea  (4)
•   Spain  (4)
•   Swaziland  (1)
•   Sweden  (2)
•   Trinidad and Tobago  (1)
•   Turkey  (2)
•   United States  (4)
•   Venezuela  (1)
•   Vietnam  (2)

Controversies

• Bronze medalist Chi Shu-Ju, Hamide Bıkçın Tosun, Hadi Saei and Pascal Gentil complained to the media about what they perceived as biased refereeing which made them lose their possible gold medal. ^{[2] [3]} Pascal Gentil even refused to be photographed with his fellow medalists Kim Kyong-Hun and Daniel Trenton in the medal ceremony. Gold medalist Steven López revealed some inside story in his family's 2009 book. ^[4]

References

1. "Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
2. "London 2012 Olympic Games – ABC Grandstand Sport (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC Grandstand Sport.
3. "BBC SPORT | MARTIAL ARTS | Medal first for Vietnam".
4. 《Family Power: The True Story of How "The First Family of Taekwondo" Made Olympic History》，Mark López, Steven López, Diana López， ISBN   978-0451228512

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database