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This is the seventh appearance of the men's 58kg category, debut in 2000, and it has appeared in every games since then. Vito Dell'Aquila was a defending Olympic champion, but he lost to Gashim Magomedov, later Dell'Aquila got into repechages, and lost to Cyrian Ravet in bronze medal matches, Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi won a bronze medal as well, by beating Adrián ...
The distinction of Taekwondo at these Olympic Games was that this was the first time in the sport that eight gold medals were awarded to eight different NOCs. Europe took the lead and South Korea lost its dominance. The 2012 Olympics was the second time that South Korea, failed to have the best medal record in Taekwondo.
The main bracket consisted of a single elimination tournament, culminating in the gold medal match. The top eight athletes in each event were seeded so as not to face each other in the preliminary round. The remainder of the qualified athletes were drawn randomly. Two bronze medals were awarded at the Taekwondo competitions.
The head coach for the U.S. Olympic Taekwondo team was Dong Keun Park, the former member of the South Korean National Team from 1960 through 1966.He captained the South Korean team for five years with the undefeated record of winning more than 200 competition matches with multiple bouts, [1] [2] and has been inducted into the official Taekwondo Hall of Fame and US Taekwondo Grandmasters ...
Taekwondo was held at the State Sports Centre in Sydney Olympic Park. Taekwondo was contested as an official sport at the Olympic Games for the first time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. It had previously been a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992. Medals were awarded in four weight classes each for men and women.
The competition format for taekwondo is a single-elimination tournament to determine the gold and silver medal winners, and a repechage is used to determine the bronze medal winner(s). [ 4 ] in 2000 and 2004 , a single repechage final determined the sole bronze medal winner, but a rule change in 2008 created two repechage finals that allowed ...
Taekwondo was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. It was the first time that the sport was included in the Olympic program; it would become an official sport twelve years later at the 2000 Games. A total of 120 men and 62 women from 35 nations competed in eight weight classes.
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.