Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics
At the 2012 Olympic Games in London eight competitions were held in Taekwondo from 8 to 11 August 2012 at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre, four each for men and women. The competition program was identical compared to Beijing 2008.
- 3.1 class to 49 kg ( flyweight )
- 3.2 class to 57 kg ( featherweight )
- 3.3 class to 67 kg ( welterweight )
- 3.4 Class over 67 kg ( heavyweight)
- 5.1 Qualification Criteria
- 5.2 Won quota places
Competitions and schedule
Results Men
Class up to 58 kg ( flyweight )
Date: August 8, 2012
Class up to 68 kg ( featherweight )
Date: August 9, 2012
Class up to 80 kg ( welterweight )
Date: August 10, 2012
Class over 80 kg ( heavyweight)
Date: August 11, 2012
Results Women
Class up to 49 kg ( flyweight )
Date: August 8, 2012
Class up to 57 kg ( featherweight )
Date: August 9, 2012
Class up to 67 kg ( welterweight )
Date: August 10, 2012
Class over 67 kg ( heavyweight)
Date: August 11, 2012
Medal Tally
Qualification
Qualification criteria
At the competitions 128 athletes will participate, each of 64 women and men, including four athletes of the host NOCs and other four athletes, the World Taekwondo Federation ( WTF ) invited after the completion of the qualifying phase. Each NOK could total up to four athletes qualify, two women and men, but a maximum of one athlete per weight class. Decisive for the award of the starting places was the achievement of quota places.
The qualification phase began in July 2011 with the worldwide WTF Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku. Each NOK allowed to use a maximum of four athletes in different weight classes. In each weight class athletes won the first three places a quota place. Between September 2011 and February 2012, then continental qualifying tournaments were held. NOCs were allowed to use an athlete, in which no quota place has been reached or no more athletes when two women and / or men had already won a quota place only in the weight classes. Per weight class qualify for these tournaments three athletes from Europe, Asia and America, two from Africa and one from Oceania.
Qualifiers:
- Global qualification in Azerbaijan Baku, June 30 bis July 3, 2011
- Oceanic qualification in France Noumea 11 September, 2011
- Pan-American qualifier in Mexico Santiago de Querétaro 18th to November 20th, 2011
- Asian qualifiers in Bangkok Thailand, 26 set to 27 June 2011, initially on 4 and 5 October 2011, due to the floods in Thailand but canceled
- European qualification in Russia Kazan 27 bis January 29, 2012
Won quota places
The British Association put the end of May 2011, the four weight classes determine, in which it is put at the Games athletes. They chose among women the classes to 57 kg to 67 kg and in men the classes to 68 kg and 80 kg. The four quota places, the WTF could allocate by invitation, were thus in April 2012 with the women in the classes to 49 kg ( Panama ) and 67 kg ( Cambodia ) as well as the men in the class to 58 kg ( at Yemen) and 80 kg ( awarded to Mali).