Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 58 kg

The taekwondo competition of the men's flyweight, the weight category to 58 kg at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 8 August 2012 at the Exhibition Centre London. 16 fighters participated.

The competition was held in the knockout system. It started with the first knockout round. The winners then came into the quarter-finals and semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals competing for gold and silver medal. The fighters who had lost in the eighth - and quarter-final against one of the finalists, fought in a repechage against each other. The two winners then fought with the semi-final losers of the other finalists to two bronze medals.

Note: The winners of the fights and their scores are bold. The abbreviation PTG means that the winner has reached a lead of 12 points in the third round at the end of the second round or at any time and so the fight ends. SUD means Sudden Death. Event of a draw after the third round, a fourth round is fought. The first vote decides the winner. Should there still be no winner after the fourth round, is considered the overall impression (SUP ).

Title holders

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinal

Repechage

It fought the athletes who in the eighth and quarter- final against the finalists Joel González, then those who have against Lee Dae- hoon, lost.

Fights for the bronze medal

Final

August 8, 2012, 23:30 clock (CEST )

Medals

Joel González scored the first victory in the Spanish Olympic Taekwondo and the first medal win in this weight class. Lee Dae- hoon and Alexei Denisenko get the first medal gains for their countries in this weight class. Óscar Muñoz scored the first Colombian medal win in taekwondo.