Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 80 kg

The Taekwondo competition in the welterweight of the men in the weight class up to 80 kg in the 2012 Olympics in London was held on 10 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 Nicolás García finalists, then those who have Sebastián Crismanich lost.

Fights for the bronze medal

Final

August 10, 2012, 23:30 clock (CEST )

Medals

Sebastián Crismanich scored the first Argentine Olympic victory and winning a medal in taekwondo. Nicolás García and Lutalo Muhammad won the first medals in the welterweight division for their countries.