List of Olympic medalists in taekwondo

Taekwondo is an Olympic sport that is contested at the Summer Olympic Games. It was introduced in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games as a demonstration sport, and made its debut as a full medal sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.^[1] Both men and women compete in four events each defined by separate weight classes: flyweight, featherweight, middleweight and heavyweight. Traditionally, taekwondo competitions consist of eight weight classes for each gender, but Olympic taekwondo only have four due to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) limiting the total number of taekwondo entrants to 128.^[2]

The competitions are conducted in accordance with the rules established by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF).^[3] 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 for the bronze medal to be shared between two competitors.^[5]

Iranian Hadi Saei (2 gold, 1 bronze), American Steven López (2 gold, 1 bronze), and South Korean Hwang Kyung-Seon (2 gold, 1 bronze) share the most medals in taekwondo with three.^[6][7] By defending her title at 2012 London Olympics, Hwang Kyung-Seon became the first woman ever to win three Olympic taekwondo medals. Hadi Saei and Steven López, along with Huang Chih-hsiung of Chinese Tapei, are the only three athletes to have won medals in multiple weight classes. Taiwanese Chi Shu-ju is the youngest athlete to win a medal (17 years, 10 months, 1 day) and Hadi Saei is the oldest (32 years, 2 months, 13 days).^[6][8] Rohullah Nikpai of Afghanistan became his country's first ever Olympic medalist with a bronze medal in 2008.^[9] South Korea has been the most successful nation in Olympic taekwondo, winning 14 medals (10 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze).^[10] Chinese Taipei is the second most successful nation with 7 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze).^[10] A total of 32 gold medals, 32 silver medals and 48 bronze medals have been awarded since 2000 and have been won by athletes from 33 National Olympic Committees (NOC).^[11]

Table of contents
Men	Flyweight (58 kg) • Featherweight (68 kg) • Middleweight (80 kg) • Heavyweight (+80 kg)
Women	Flyweight (49 kg) • Featherweight (57 kg) • Middleweight (67 kg) • Heavyweight (+67 kg)
Statistics    See also    References

Men

Flyweight (58 kg)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Michail Mouroutsos  Greece	Gabriel Esparza  Spain	Huang Chih-hsiung  Chinese Taipei
2004 Athens	Chu Mu-yen  Chinese Taipei	Óscar Salazar  Mexico	Tamer Bayoumi  Egypt
2008 Beijing	Guillermo Pérez  Mexico	Gabriel Mercedes  Dominican Republic	Rohullah Nikpai  Afghanistan Chu Mu-yen  Chinese Taipei
2012 London	Joel González  Spain	Lee Dae-Hoon  South Korea	Óscar Muñoz  Colombia Aleksey Denisenko  Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro

Featherweight (68 kg)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Steven López  United States	Sin Joon-Sik  South Korea	Hadi Saei  Iran
2004 Athens	Hadi Saei  Iran	Huang Chih-hsiung  Chinese Taipei	Song Myeong-Seob  South Korea
2008 Beijing	Son Tae-Jin  South Korea	Mark López  United States	Servet Tazegül  Turkey Sung Yu-chi  Chinese Taipei
2012 London	Servet Tazegül  Turkey	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed  Iran	Terrence Jennings  United States Rohullah Nikpai  Afghanistan
2016 Rio de Janeiro

Middleweight (80 kg)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Ángel Matos  Cuba	Faissal Ebnoutalib  Germany	Víctor Estrada  Mexico
2004 Athens	Steven López  United States	Bahri Tanrıkulu  Turkey	Yousef Karami  Iran
2008 Beijing	Hadi Saei  Iran	Mauro Sarmiento  Italy	Zhu Guo  China Steven López  United States
2012 London	Sebastián Crismanich  Argentina	Nicolás García  Spain	Lutalo Muhammad  Great Britain Mauro Sarmiento  Italy
2016 Rio de Janeiro

Heavyweight (+80 kg)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Kim Kyong-Hun  South Korea	Daniel Trenton  Australia	Pascal Gentil  France
2004 Athens	Moon Dae-Sung  South Korea	Alexandros Nikolaidis  Greece	Pascal Gentil  France
2008 Beijing	Cha Dong-Min  South Korea	Alexandros Nikolaidis  Greece	Chika Chukwumerije  Nigeria Arman Chilmanov  Kazakhstan
2012 London	Carlo Molfetta  Italy	Anthony Obame  Gabon	Robelis Despaigne  Cuba Liu Xiaobo  China
2016 Rio de Janeiro

Women

Flyweight (49 kg)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Lauren Burns  Australia	Urbia Melendez  Cuba	Chi Shu-ju  Chinese Taipei
2004 Athens	Chen Shih-hsin  Chinese Taipei	Yanelis Labrada  Cuba	Yaowapa Boorapolchai  Thailand
2008 Beijing	Wu Jingyu  China	Buttree Puedpong  Thailand	Daynellis Montejo  Cuba Dalia Contreras  Venezuela
2012 London	Wu Jingyu  China	Brigitte Yagüe  Spain	Chanatip Sonkham  Thailand Lucija Zaninović  Croatia
2016 Rio de Janeiro

Featherweight (57 kg)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Jung Jae-Eun  South Korea	Tran Hieu Ngan  Vietnam	Hamide Bıkçın Tosun  Turkey
2004 Athens	Jang Ji-won  South Korea	Nia Abdallah  United States	Iridia Salazar  Mexico
2008 Beijing	Lim Su-Jeong  South Korea	Azize Tanrıkulu  Turkey	Diana López  United States Martina Zubčić  Croatia
2012 London	Jade Jones  Great Britain	Hou Yuzhuo  China	Marlène Harnois  France Tseng Li-Cheng  Chinese Taipei
2016 Rio de Janeiro

Middleweight (67 kg)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Lee Sun-hee  South Korea	Trude Gundersen  Norway	Yoriko Okamoto  Japan
2004 Athens	Luo Wei  China	Elisavet Mystakidou  Greece	Hwang Kyung-Seon  South Korea
2008 Beijing	Hwang Kyung-Seon  South Korea	Karine Sergerie  Canada	Gwladys Épangue  France Sandra Šarić  Croatia
2012 London	Hwang Kyung-Seon  South Korea	Nur Tatar  Turkey	Paige McPherson  United States Helena Fromm  Germany
2016 Rio de Janeiro

Heavyweight (+67 kg)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Chen Zhong  China	Natalia Ivanova  Russia	Dominique Bosshart  Canada
2004 Athens	Chen Zhong  China	Myriam Baverel  France	Adriana Carmona  Venezuela
2008 Beijing	María Espinoza  Mexico	Nina Solheim  Norway	Sarah Stevenson  Great Britain Natália Falavigna  Brazil
2012 London	Milica Mandić  Serbia	Anne-Caroline Graffe  France	Anastasia Baryshnikova  Russia María Espinoza  Mexico
2016 Rio de Janeiro

Statistics

Athlete medal leaders

Athletes who won at least two medals are listed below.^[12]

Athlete	Nation	Gender	Olympics^[a]	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Saei, HadiHadi Saei	Iran (IRI)	Male	2000–2008	2	0	1	3
Kyung-Seon, HwangHwang Kyung-Seon	South Korea (KOR)	Female	2004–2012	2	0	1	3
López, StevenSteven López	United States (USA)	Male	2000–2008	2	0	1	3
Zhong, ChenChen Zhong	China (CHN)	Female	2000–2004	2	0	0	2
Jingyu, WuWu Jingyu	China (CHN)	Female	2008–2012	2	0	0	2
Espinoza, MaríaMaría Espinoza	Mexico (MEX)	Female	2008–2012	1	0	1	2
Mu-yen, ChuChu Mu-yen	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	Male	2004–2008	1	0	1	2
Tazegül, ServetServet Tazegül	Turkey (TUR)	Male	2008–2012	1	0	1	2
Nikolaidis, AlexandrosAlexandros Nikolaidis	Greece (GRE)	Male	2004–2008	0	2	0	2
Chih-hsiung, HuangHuang Chih-hsiung	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	Male	2000–2004	0	1	1	2
Sarmiento, MauroMauro Sarmiento	Italy (ITA)	Male	2008–2012	0	1	1	2
Gentil, PascalPascal Gentil	France (FRA)	Male	2000–2004	0	0	2	2
Nikpai, RohullahRohullah Nikpai	Afghanistan (AFG)	Male	2008–2012	0	0	2	2

^a The years indicate the Olympics at which the medals were won.

Medals per year

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NOC did not exist

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Number of medals won by the NOC

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NOC did not win any medals

Nation	1896–1996	00	04	08	12	Total
Afghanistan (AFG)		–	–	1	1	2
Argentina (ARG)		–	–	-	1	1
Australia (AUS)		2	–	–	-	2
Brazil (BRA)		–	–	1	-	2
Canada (CAN)		1	–	1	-	2
China (CHN)		1	2	2	3	8
Chinese Taipei (TPE)		2	3	2	1	8
Croatia (CRO)		–	–	2	1	3
Colombia (COL)		–	–	-	1	1
Cuba (CUB)		2	1	1	1	5
Dominican Republic (DOM)		–	–	1	–	1
Egypt (EGY)		–	1	–	–	1
France (FRA)		1	2	1	2	6
Gabon (GAB)		-	–	–	1	1
Germany (GER)		1	–	–	1	2
Great Britain (GBR)		–	–	1	2	3
Greece (GRE)		1	2	1	–	4
Iran (IRI)		1	2	1	1	5
Italy (ITA)		–	–	1	2	3
Japan (JPN)		1	–	–	–	1
Kazakhstan (KAZ)		–	–	1	–	1
Mexico (MEX)		1	2	2	1	6
Nigeria (NGR)		–	–	1	–	1
Norway (NOR)		1	–	1	–	2
Russia (RUS)		1	–	–	2	3
Serbia (SRB)		-	-	-	1	1
South Korea (KOR)		4	4	4	2	14
Spain (ESP)		1	–	–	3	4
Thailand (THA)		–	1	1	1	3
Turkey (TUR)		–	2	2	2	6
United States (USA)		1	2	3	2	8
Venezuela (VEN)		–	1	1	–	2
Vietnam (VIE)		1	–	–	–	1

See also

• World Taekwondo Championships
• World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships
• Lists of Olympic medalists

References

General

• "Results database". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  • 2000 2004 2008
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