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Taekwondo
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueCarioca Arena 3
Dates17–20 August 2016
No. of events8
Competitors128 from 63 nations
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Taekwondo at the
2016 Summer Olympics
List of practitioners
Qualification
MenWomen
58 kg49 kg
68 kg57 kg
80 kg67 kg
+80 kg+67 kg

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

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 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

Main article: List of taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics


Special Mentions

  • The Chinese athlete Jingyu Wu and double Olympic champion did not get the golden triplet, losing in the quarterfinals before the Serbian Tijana Bogdanovic who took the silver medal, so Jingyu Wu agreed to the repechage losing to Patimat Abakarova of Azerbaijan.
  • Jordan Ahmad Abughaush won the first medal for his country by winning the gold against Russian Alexey Denisenko in the -68kg category.
  • Servet Tazegül of Turkey Olympic champion 2012, bronze in 2008 and favorite to the podium, he leaves with the empty vain to lose the repechage against the Venezuelan Edgar Contreras in the -68kg category.
  • Jade Jones becomes double Olympic champion at -57kg being the first British to get it.
  • Kimia Alizadeh (-57kg) from Iran is the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal in any sport.
  • Cheick Sallah Cissé is the first athlete in the history of Côte d'Ivoire to win a gold medal by beating a cardiac encounter and a second to finish the third round he defeats Lutalo Muhammad of Great Britain in the -80kg category. His compatriot Ruth Gbagbi on the other hand obtains the bronze and thus becomes the first woman in the history of his country to obtain an Olympic medal.
  • The Olympic legend, Steven Lopez, participates in his fifth Olympic Games.
  • Azerbaijan for the first time appears in the medal table, Radik Izayev in the category + 80kg is awarded the gold.
  • Abdul Razak Issoufou of Niger obtains the silver, since 1972, Niger had not obtained any medal.
  • The Local Maicon Siqueira, is the first man to get a medal for Brazil in this sport, 8 years after Natália Falavigna, being the only two Brazilians to get a medal, both bronze.
  • The Mexican Maria del Rosario Espinoza gets 3 medals, an achievement that only Hwang Kyung-seon of South Korea, being thus the only two women to get on the podium in 3 consecutive Olympic games.
  • South Korea, China, United States, Iran, Mexico, Turkey and France are the only nations to obtain medals in each edition since Taekwondo is an official Olympic sport


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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Südkorea2035
2 China2002
3 Great Britain1113
4 Aserbaidschan1023
5 Ivory Coast1012
6 Jordanien1001
7 Spanien0112
 Thailand0112
9 Frankreich0101
 Mexiko0101
 Niger0101
 Russland0101
 Serbien0101
14 Brasilien0011
 Dominikanische Republik0011
 Ägypten0011
 Iran0011
 Tunesien0011
 Türkei0011
 Vereinigte Staaten0011
Totals (20 entries)881632

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg)
details 		Zhao Shuai
 China 		Tawin Hanprab
 Thailand 		Luisito Pie
 Dominikanische Republik
Kim Tae-hun
 Südkorea
Featherweight (68 kg)
details 		Ahmad Abughaush
 Jordanien 		Alexey Denisenko
 Russland 		Lee Dae-hoon
 Südkorea
Joel González
 Spanien
Welterweight (80 kg)
details 		Cheick Sallah Cissé
 Ivory Coast 		Lutalo Muhammad
 Great Britain 		Milad Beigi
 Aserbaidschan
Oussama Oueslati
 Tunesien
Heavyweight (+80 kg)
details 		Radik Isayev
 Aserbaidschan 		Abdoul Razak Issoufou
 Niger 		Maicon Siqueira
 Brasilien
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
Panipak Wongpattanakit
 Thailand
Featherweight (57 kg)
details 		Jade Jones
 Great Britain 		Eva Calvo
 Spanien 		Hedaya Malak
 Ägypten
Kimia Alizadeh
 Iran
Welterweight (67 kg)
details 		Oh Hye-ri
 Südkorea 		Haby Niaré
 Frankreich 		Ruth Gbagbi
 Ivory Coast
Nur Tatar
 Türkei
Heavyweight (+67 kg)
details 		Zheng Shuyin
 China 		María Espinoza
 Mexiko 		Bianca Walkden
 Great Britain
Jackie Galloway
 Vereinigte Staaten

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Olympic Games: Taekwondo". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 28 April 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b c "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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