Taekwondo at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | |
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Venue | Makuhari Messe |
Dates | 24–27 July 2021 |
No. of events | 8 |
Competitors | 132 from 62 nations |
Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics | ||
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List of practitioners Qualification | ||
Men | Women | |
58 kg | 49 kg | |
68 kg | 57 kg | |
80 kg | 67 kg | |
+80 kg | +67 kg | |
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]
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]
Event↓/Date → | Jul 24 | Jul 25 | Jul 26 | Jul 27 |
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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 |
Weights | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Men's | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
Women's | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
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]
Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ROC | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
2 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Serbia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
4 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Thailand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
8 | Great Britain | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
9 | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
10 | Jordan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
North Macedonia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
14 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Turkey | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
16 | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Cuba | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ivory Coast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (21 entries) | 8 | 8 | 16 | 32 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight (58 kg) | Vito Dell'Aquila Italy | Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi Tunisia | Jang Jun South Korea |
Mikhail Artamonov ROC | |||
Featherweight (68 kg) | Ulugbek Rashitov Uzbekistan | Bradly Sinden Great Britain | Hakan Reçber Turkey |
Zhao Shuai China | |||
Welterweight (80 kg) | Maksim Khramtsov ROC | Saleh Al-Sharabaty Jordan | Toni Kanaet Croatia |
Seif Eissa Egypt | |||
Heavyweight (+80 kg) | Vladislav Larin ROC | Dejan Georgievski North Macedonia | In Kyo-don South Korea |
Rafael Alba Cuba |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight (49 kg) | Panipak Wongpattanakit Thailand | Adriana Cerezo Spain | Tijana Bogdanović Serbia |
Avishag Semberg Israel | |||
Featherweight (57 kg) | Anastasija Zolotic United States | Tatiana Minina ROC | Lo Chia-ling Chinese Taipei |
Hatice Kübra İlgün Turkey | |||
Welterweight (67 kg) | Matea Jelić Croatia | Lauren Williams Great Britain | Ruth Gbagbi Ivory Coast |
Hedaya Wahba Egypt | |||
Heavyweight (+67 kg) | Milica Mandić Serbia | Lee Da-bin South Korea | Althéa Laurin France |
Bianca Walkden Great Britain |
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