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Venue	Carioca Arena 3
Dates	17–20 August 2016
No. of events	8
Competitors	128 from 63 nations
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Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 17 to 20 August at the Carioca Arena 3 inside the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca. Around 128 taekwondo fighters competed in eight weight categories; four for men, and four for women.^[1]

Qualification

Taekwondo competition at these Games featured a total of 128 athletes, 64 in each gender, and 16 in each of the eight weight categories. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter up to a maximum of eight competitors, four of each gender, based on the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Olympic rankings, such that an athlete per NOC must be among the top six in each weight category. If an NOC had qualified only two female and male athletes through ranking, it could not participate in the respective Continental Qualification Tournament unless it had relinquishing the places obtained through ranking.^[2]^[3]

Four places had been reserved to the host nation Brazil, and another four had been invited by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 120 places were allocated through a qualification process in which athletes had won quota place for their respective NOC. 48 taekwondo fighters, 24 in each gender and the top 6 in each weight category, were eligible to compete through the ITTF Olympic rankings, while the rest through the five Continental Qualification Tournaments.^[2]

If an NOC having qualified through a Qualification Tournament relinquishing a quota place, it would be allocated to the nation of the next highest placed athlete in the respective weight category of that tournament as long as the addition of the place did not exceed the maximum quota for that nation.^[2]

Zeitplan

**Daily schedule**
Date →	Wed 17	Thu 18	Fri 19	Sat 20
Men's	58 kg	68 kg	80 kg	+80 kg
Women's	49 kg	57 kg	67 kg	+67 kg

Participating

Participating nations

Competitors

Medal summary

After finishing in third in 2012, this Olympics marks South Korea's return to the top of the Taekwondo medal standings.

Medal table

* Host nation (Brasilien)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Südkorea	2	0	3	5
2	China	2	0	0	2
3	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
4	Aserbaidschan	1	0	2	3
5	Ivory Coast	1	0	1	2
6	Jordanien	1	0	0	1
7	Spanien	0	1	1	2
7	Thailand	0	1	1	2
9	Frankreich	0	1	0	1
	Mexiko	0	1	0	1
	Niger	0	1	0	1
	Russland	0	1	0	1
	Serbien	0	1	0	1
14	Brasilien*	0	0	1	1
	Dominikanische Republik	0	0	1	1
	Ägypten	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
	Tunesien	0	0	1	1
	Türkei	0	0	1	1
	Vereinigte Staaten	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		8	8	16	32

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg) details	Zhao Shuai China	Tawin Hanprab Thailand	Luisito Pie Dominikanische Republik
Flyweight (58 kg) details	Zhao Shuai China	Tawin Hanprab Thailand	Kim Tae-hun Südkorea
Featherweight (68 kg) details	Ahmad Abughaush Jordanien	Alexey Denisenko Russland	Lee Dae-hoon Südkorea
Featherweight (68 kg) details	Ahmad Abughaush Jordanien	Alexey Denisenko Russland	Joel González Spanien
Welterweight (80 kg) details	Cheick Sallah Cissé Ivory Coast	Lutalo Muhammad Great Britain	Milad Beigi Aserbaidschan
Welterweight (80 kg) details	Cheick Sallah Cissé Ivory Coast	Lutalo Muhammad Great Britain	Oussama Oueslati Tunesien
Heavyweight (+80 kg) details	Radik Isayev Aserbaidschan	Abdoul Razak Issoufou Niger	Maicon Siqueira Brasilien
Heavyweight (+80 kg) details	Radik Isayev Aserbaidschan	Abdoul Razak Issoufou Niger	Cha Dong-min Südkorea

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (49 kg) details	Kim So-hui Südkorea	Tijana Bogdanović Serbien	Patimat Abakarova Aserbaidschan
Flyweight (49 kg) details	Kim So-hui Südkorea	Tijana Bogdanović Serbien	Panipak Wongpattanakit Thailand
Featherweight (57 kg) details	Jade Jones Great Britain	Eva Calvo Spanien	Hedaya Malak Ägypten
Featherweight (57 kg) details	Jade Jones Great Britain	Eva Calvo Spanien	Kimia Alizadeh Iran
Welterweight (67 kg) details	Oh Hye-ri Südkorea	Haby Niaré Frankreich	Ruth Gbagbi Ivory Coast
Welterweight (67 kg) details	Oh Hye-ri Südkorea	Haby Niaré Frankreich	Nur Tatar Türkei
Heavyweight (+67 kg) details	Zheng Shuyin China	María Espinoza Mexiko	Bianca Walkden Great Britain
Heavyweight (+67 kg) details	Zheng Shuyin China	María Espinoza Mexiko	Jackie Galloway Vereinigte Staaten

References

^ "The Olympic Games: Taekwondo". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 28 April 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Rio 2016 – WTF Taekwondo Qualification System" (PDF). WTF. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^ "General Guidelines on Rio 2016 Olympic Games Qualification System" (PDF). World Taekwondo Federation. Retrieved 8 May 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

"Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
World Taekwondo Federation
NBC Olympics: Taekwondo
Results Book – Taekwondo

[1] "The Olympic Games: Taekwondo". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 28 April 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.

[wtf-qual-2] "Rio 2016 – WTF Taekwondo Qualification System" (PDF). WTF. Retrieved 8 May 2015.

[3] "General Guidelines on Rio 2016 Olympic Games Qualification System" (PDF). World Taekwondo Federation. Retrieved 8 May 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}

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-*[[Taekwondo at the 2015 Pan American Games]]
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
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-*[http://www.worldtaekwondofederation.net/ World Taekwondo Federation]
+* {{Cite web |url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/taekwondo |title=Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com) |access-date=23 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826074425/https://www.rio2016.com/en/taekwondo |archive-date=26 August 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |df=dmy-all }}
-*[http://nbcolympics.com/taekwondo/ NBC Olympics]
+* {{SR/Olympics sport at games}}
+* [http://www.worldtaekwondofederation.net/ World Taekwondo Federation]
+* [http://nbcolympics.com/taekwondo/ NBC Olympics: Taekwondo]
+* [https://library.olympic.org/Default/digitalCollection/DigitalCollectionAttachmentDownloadHandler.ashx?parentDocumentId=165312&documentId=165319 Results Book – Taekwondo]
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 [[Category:2016 Summer Olympics events]]
-[[Category:Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics| ]]
 [[Category:Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics|2016]]
 [[Category:Taekwondo competitions in Brazil]]
+[[Category:2016 in taekwondo]]

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