| Men's 68 kg at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Makuhari Messe | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | 25 July 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
| Competitors | 17 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | |
The men's 68 kg competition in Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 25 July, at the Makuhari Messe Hall A. [1]
| Gold medal | ||
17  Ulugbek Rashitov (UZB) | 34 | |
2  Bradly Sinden (GBR) | 29 | |
| Repechage | Repechage | Bronze medal | ||||||||
 Mirhashem Hosseini (IRI) | 21 |  Zhao Shuai (CHN) | 17 | |||||||
 Seydou Fofana (MLI) | 9 |  Lee Dae-hoon (KOR) | 30 | Lee Dae-hoon (KOR) | 15 | |||||
| Lee Dae-hoon (KOR) | 11 | |||||||||
 Hakan Reçber (TUR) | 23 |  Nedžad Husić (BIH) | 13 | |||||||
 Tom Burns (NZL) | 8 | Hakan Reçber (TUR) | 22 | |||||||
| Qualification round | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | |||||||||||
13 Nedžad Husić (BIH) | 22 | |||||||||||||
4  Ricardo Suzuki (JPN) | 2 | |||||||||||||
13 Nedžad Husić (BIH) | 8 | |||||||||||||
12  Abdelrahman Wael (EGY) | 7 | |||||||||||||
5  Javier Pérez (ESP) | 20 | |||||||||||||
12 Abdelrahman Wael (EGY) | 22 | |||||||||||||
13 Nedžad Husić (BIH) | 5 | |||||||||||||
17 Ulugbek Rashitov (UZB) | 28 | |||||||||||||
9  Huang Yu-jen (TPE) | 15 | |||||||||||||
8 Mirhashem Hosseini (IRI) | 18 | |||||||||||||
8 Mirhashem Hosseini (IRI) | 22 | |||||||||||||
17 Ulugbek Rashitov (UZB) | 34 | |||||||||||||
1 Lee Dae-hoon (KOR) | 19 | |||||||||||||
17 Ulugbek Rashitov (UZB) | 21 | |||||||||||||
16 Seydou Fofana (MLI) | 17 | |||||||||||||
17 Ulugbek Rashitov (UZB) | 38 | |||||||||||||
| Qualification round | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | |||||||||||
15 Tom Burns (NZL) | 8 | |||||||||||||
2 Bradly Sinden (GBR) | 53 | |||||||||||||
2 Bradly Sinden (GBR) | 39 | |||||||||||||
10 Hakan Reçber (TUR) | 19 | |||||||||||||
7  Edival Pontes (BRA) | 18 | |||||||||||||
10 Hakan Reçber (TUR) | 25 | |||||||||||||
2 Bradly Sinden (GBR) | 33 | |||||||||||||
3 Zhao Shuai (CHN) | 25 | |||||||||||||
11  Bernardo Pié (DOM) | 18 | |||||||||||||
6  Jaouad Achab (BEL) | 11 | |||||||||||||
11 Bernardo Pié (DOM) | 8 | |||||||||||||
3 Zhao Shuai (CHN) | 13 | |||||||||||||
3 Zhao Shuai (CHN) | 22 | |||||||||||||
14  Abdullah Sediqi (EOR) | 20 | |||||||||||||
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