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The taekwondo competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 7 to 10 August at the Grand Palais strip. [1] [2] 128 taekwondo fighters, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across eight different weight categories (four per gender) at the Games, the same amount as the previous editions since Beijing 2008.
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]
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 ...
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she defeated four of the top five athletes in her weight class and Iranian taekwondo artist Nahid Kiani, and won the gold medal for the women's 57 kg category for taekwondo. [9] Kim's gold medal win also gave South Korea its 13th gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, tying the country's previous Summer Olympic ...
This is the seventh appearance of the men's super heavyweight category. Vladislav Larin is a defending champion, but the IOC did not claim him neutral, Nikita Rafalovich took his spot, but lost to the eventual champion Arian Salimi, marking Iran won gold in taekwondo for the first time since Beijing 2008, in the 2024 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament, 2020 silver medalist ...
Alizadeh was the first Iranian female athlete ever to win an Olympic medal when she claimed bronze in Rio de Janeiro as an 18-year-old. Her win catapulted her to fame, but she grew frustrated with ...
The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [ 16 ]
In 1982, taekwondo was designated an official demonstration sport for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, and for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. [2] In 1986 and 1987, taekwondo was included in the following international sporting events: World Cup (1986), Asian Games (1986), All-Africa Games (1986), and the Pan American Games ...