Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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]

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	2	0	3	5
2	China	2	0	0	2
3	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
4	Azerbaijan	1	0	2	3
5	Ivory Coast	1	0	1	2
6	Jordan	1	0	0	1
7	Spain	0	1	1	2
	Thailand	0	1	1	2
9	France	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Niger	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
14	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		8	8	16	32

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg)	Zhao Shuai  China	Tawin Hanprab  Thailand	Luisito Pie  Dominican Republic
			Kim Tae-hun  South Korea
Featherweight (68 kg)	Ahmad Abughaush  Jordan	Alexey Denisenko  Russia	Lee Dae-hoon  South Korea
			Joel González  Spain
Welterweight (80 kg)	Cheick Sallah Cissé  Ivory Coast	Lutalo Muhammad  Great Britain	Milad Beigi  Azerbaijan
			Oussama Oueslati  Tunisia
Heavyweight (+80 kg)	Radik Isayev  Azerbaijan	Abdoul Razak Issoufou  Niger	Maicon Siqueira  Brazil
			Cha Dong-min  South Korea

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (49 kg)	Kim So-hui  South Korea	Tijana Bogdanović  Serbia	Patimat Abakarova  Azerbaijan
			Panipak Wongpattanakit  Thailand
Featherweight (57 kg)	Jade Jones  Great Britain	Eva Calvo  Spain	Hedaya Malak  Egypt
			Kimia Alizadeh  Iran
Welterweight (67 kg)	Oh Hye-ri  South Korea	Haby Niaré  France	Ruth Gbagbi  Ivory Coast
			Nur Tatar  Turkey
Heavyweight (+67 kg)	Zheng Shuyin  China	María Espinoza  Mexico	Bianca Walkden  Great Britain
			Jackie Galloway  United States

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