Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 57 kg

The taekwondo competition at featherweight women, the weight category to 57 kg at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 9 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 loser of the other finalist for 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 finalist Jade Jones, then those who have against Hou Yuzhuo lost.

Fights for the bronze medal

Final

August 9, 2012, 23:15 clock (CEST )

Medals

After three South Korean wins in a row in this weight class Jade Jones scored the first Olympic gold medal for Britain in taekwondo. Yuzhuo Hou (CHN ), Marlène Harnois (FRA) and Tseng Li -cheng (TPE ) won the first medals for their countries at featherweight.