Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo events 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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Taekwondo at the
2020 Summer Olympics

List of practitioners
Qualification
| Men| Women
| 58 kg| 49 kg
| 68 kg| 57 kg
| 80 kg| 67 kg
| +80 kg| +67 kg

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Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 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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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

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Schedule[5][6] 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

## Participating

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### Events by gender

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Weights  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4

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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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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

### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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

## 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. ^ "Korea invented Taekwondo. They've now been outperformed. Can this year's Olympians smash the slump?". Korea JoongAng Daily. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024. `{{cite news}}`: `|first=` missing `|last=` (help); Unknown parameter `|latst=` ignored (help)

## External links

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* Results book Archived 7 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine

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