Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue	Makuhari Messe
Dates	24–27 July 2021
No. of events	8
Competitors	132 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

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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

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

Events by gender

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

Medal summary

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

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg) details	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) details	Vladislav Larin   ROC	Dejan Georgievski   North Macedonia	In Kyo-don   South Korea
			Rafael Alba   Cuba

Women's events

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) details	Matea Jelić   Croatia	Lauren Williams   Great Britain	Ruth Gbagbi   Ivory Coast
			Hedaya Wahba   Egypt
Heavyweight (+67 kg) details	Milica Mandić   Serbia	Lee Da-bin   South Korea	Althéa Laurin   France
			Bianca Walkden   Great Britain

See also

• Taekwondo at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

References

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". Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
4. 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.

External links

• Results book Archived 7 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine