# Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

This article details the qualifying phase for taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. (The Olympics was postponed to at least 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 128 taekwondo fighters coming from their respective NOCs. Each NOC is allowed to enter up to one competitor per event, resulting in a maximum of eight competitors, four of each gender.
Five quota places will be awarded to the top-ranked practitioners in each of the eight weight classes (four per gender) through the World Taekwondo (WT) Olympic rankings, while the highest-ranked practitioner of each weight category on merit points standing will grant one quota place each for their respective NOC through the WT Grand Slam Champions Series. If an NOC has qualified a minimum of two male and a minimum of two female athletes through ranking, it cannot participate in the respective Continental Qualification Tournament, unless it relinquishes the places obtained through ranking.
Four places have been reserved to the host nation Japan, and another four have been invited by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 120 places are allocated through a qualification process in which athletes have won quota place for their respective NOC. 48 taekwondo fighters, 24 in each gender and the top 6 in each weight category, are eligible to compete through the WT Olympic rankings, while the rest through the five Continental Qualification Tournaments.
If an NOC having qualified through a Qualification Tournament relinquishes a quota place, it would be allocated to the nation of the next highest placed athlete in the respective weight category of that tournament as long as the addition of the place does not exceed the maximum quota for that nation.

## Timeline

| Event | Date | Venue |
| WT Olympic Rankings | December 7, 2019 | — |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | December 20, 2019 | — |
| African Qualification Tournament | February 22–23, 2020 | Rabat, Morocco |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | February 29, 2020 | Gold Coast, Australia |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | March 11–12, 2020 | Heredia, Costa Rica |
| European Qualification Tournament | May 7–8, 2021 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | May 21–22, 2021 | Amman, Jordan |

## Qualification summary

The following table summarises the outcome of qualification for the taekwondo tournament at the 2020 Olympics. 57 nations gained at least one quota place for Tokyo. China and South Korea were the most successful nation, gaining six places each, followed by the leading European nations, Great Britain and Turkey with five apiece. The tripartie commission quotas were announced on June 24, 2021.
| NOC | Men | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women | Women | Total |
| NOC | −58 kg | −68 kg | −80 kg | +80 kg | −49 kg | −57 kg | −67 kg | +67 kg | Total |
| Afghanistan | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Argentina | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Australia | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Azerbaijan | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Belgium | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Brazil | | | | | | | | | 3 |
| Burkina Faso | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Canada | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| China | | | | | | | | | 6 |
| Chinese Taipei | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Colombia | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Croatia | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Costa Rica | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Cuba | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Dominican Republic | | | | | | | | | 3 |
| Egypt | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Ethiopia | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| France | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Gabon | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Germany | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Great Britain | | | | | | | | | 5 |
| Greece | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Haiti | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Honduras | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Hungary | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Iran | | | | | | | | | 3 |
| Ireland | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Israel | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Italy | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Ivory Coast | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Japan | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Jordan | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Kazakhstan | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Kenya | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Mali | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Mexico | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Morocco | | | | | | | | | 3 |
| Netherlands | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| New Zealand | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Niger | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Nigeria | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| North Macedonia | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Norway | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Philippines | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Poland | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Portugal | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Puerto Rico | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Refugee Olympic Team | | | | | | | | | 3 |
| ROC | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Serbia | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Slovenia | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| South Korea | | | | | | | | | 6 |
| Spain | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Thailand | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Tonga | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Tunisia | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Turkey | | | | | | | | | 5 |
| United States | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Uzbekistan | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Vietnam | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Total: 62 NOCs | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 131 |

## Men's events

Quota places are allocated to the respective NOC and not to competitor that achieved the place in the qualification event.

### −58 kg

| Competition | Places | Qualified athletes |
| WT Olympic Rankings (as of December 2019) | 6 | Jang Jun (KOR) Vito Dell'Aquila (ITA) Jesús Tortosa (ESP) Armin Hadipour (IRI) Mikhail Artamonov (ROC) Jack Woolley (IRL) |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | 0 | — |
| African Qualification Tournament | 2 | Solomon Demse (ETH) Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi (TUN) |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | 1 | Safwan Khalil (AUS) |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | 2 | Lucas Guzmán (ARG) Jefferson Ochoa (COL) |
| European Qualification Tournament | 2 | Omar Salim (HUN) Rui Bragança (POR) |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | 2 | Kurt Bryan Barbosa (PHI) Ramnarong Sawekwiharee (THA) |
| Host nation / Universality places | 1 | Sergio Suzuki (JPN) |
| Total | 16 | |

### −68 kg

| Competition | Places | Qualified athletes |
| WT Olympic Rankings (as of December 2019) | 6 | Lee Dae-hoon (KOR) Bradly Sinden (GBR) Zhao Shuai (CHN) Javier Pérez (ESP) Jaouad Achab (BEL) Mirhashem Hosseini (IRI) |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | 0 | — |
| African Qualification Tournament | 2 | Abdelrahman Wael (EGY) Seydou Fofana (MLI) |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | 1 | Tom Burns (NZL) |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | 2 | Edival Pontes (BRA) Bernardo Pié (DOM) |
| European Qualification Tournament | 2 | Nedžad Husić (BIH) Hakan Reçber (TUR) |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | 2 | Huang Yu-jen (TPE) Ulugbek Rashitov (UZB) |
| Host nation / Universality places | 1 | Ricardo Suzuki (JPN) |
| Additional | 1 | Abdullah Sediqi (EOR) |
| Total | 17 | |

### −80 kg

| Competition | Places | Qualified athletes |
| WT Olympic Rankings (as of December 2019) | 6 | Maksim Khramtsov (ROC) Milad Beigi (AZE) Cheick Sallah Cissé (CIV) Nikita Rafalovich (UZB) Raúl Martínez (ESP) Toni Kanaet (CRO) |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | 0 | — |
| African Qualification Tournament | 2 | Seif Eissa (EGY) Achraf Mahboubi (MAR) |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | 1 | Jack Marton (AUS) |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | 2 | Ícaro Miguel Soares (BRA) Moisés Hernández (DOM) |
| European Qualification Tournament | 2 | Simone Alessio (ITA) Richard Ordemann (NOR) |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | 2 | Saleh Al-Sharabaty (JOR) Liu Wei-ting (TPE) |
| Host nation / Universality places | 1 | Faysal Sawadogo (BUR) |
| Total | 16 | |

### +80 kg

| Competition | Places | Qualified athletes |
| WT Olympic Rankings (as of December 2019) | 6 | Vladislav Larin (ROC) In Kyo-don (KOR) Alexander Bachmann (GER) Abdoul Razak Issoufou (NIG) Ivan Trajkovič (SLO) Mahama Cho (GBR) |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | 0 | — |
| African Qualification Tournament | 2 | Seydou Gbané (CIV) Anthony Obame (GAB) |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | 1 | Pita Taufatofua (TGA) |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | 2 | Rafael Alba (CUB) Carlos Sansores (MEX) |
| European Qualification Tournament | 2 | Ivan Šapina (CRO) Dejan Georgievski (MKD) |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | 2 | Sun Hongyi (CHN) Ruslan Zhaparov (KAZ) |
| Host nation / Universality places | 1 | Farzad Mansouri (AFG) |
| Total | 16 | |

## Women's events

Quota places are allocated to the respective NOC and not to competitor that achieved the place in the qualification event.

### −49 kg

| Competition | Places | Qualified athletes |
| WT Olympic Rankings (as of December 2019) | 7 | Panipak Wongpattanakit (THA) Sim Jae-young (KOR) Tijana Bogdanović (SRB) Rukiye Yıldırım (TUR) Kristina Tomić (CRO) Wu Jingyu (CHN) Yvette Yong (CAN) |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | 0 | — |
| African Qualification Tournament | 2 | Nour Abdelsalam (EGY) Oumaima El-Bouchti (MAR) |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | 0 | — |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | 2 | Andrea Ramírez (COL) Victoria Stambaugh (PUR) |
| European Qualification Tournament | 2 | Adriana Cerezo (ESP) Avishag Semberg (ISR) |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | 2 | Su Po-ya (TPE) Trương Thị Kim Tuyền (VIE) |
| Host nation / Universality places | 1 | Miyu Yamada (JPN) |
| Additional | 1 | Dina Pouryounes (EOR) |
| Total | 17 | |

### −57 kg

| Competition | Places | Qualified athletes |
| WT Olympic Rankings (as of December 2019) | 5 | Jade Jones (GBR) Lee Ah-reum (KOR) Tatiana Kudashova (ROC) Hatice Kübra İlgün (TUR) Skylar Park (CAN) |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | 1 | Zhou Lijun (CHN) |
| African Qualification Tournament | 2 | Nada Laaraj (MAR) Tekiath Ben Yessouf (NIG) |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | 1 | Stacey Hymer (AUS) |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | 2 | Anastasija Zolotic (USA) Nishy Lee Lindo (CRC) |
| European Qualification Tournament | 2 | Fani Tzeli (GRE) Patrycja Adamkiewicz (POL) |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | 2 | Nahid Kiani (IRI) Lo Chia-ling (TPE) |
| Host nation / Universality places | 1 | Mayu Hamada (JPN) |
| Additional | 1 | Kimia Alizadeh (EOR) |
| Total | 17 | |

### −67 kg

| Competition | Places | Qualified athletes |
| WT Olympic Rankings (as of December 2019) | 6 | Ruth Gbagbi (CIV) Nur Tatar (TUR) Matea Jelić (CRO) Lauren Williams (GBR) Zhang Mengyu (CHN) Paige McPherson (USA) |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | 0 | — |
| African Qualification Tournament | 2 | Hedaya Malak (EGY) Elizabeth Anyanacho (NGR) |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | 1 | Malia Paseka (TGA) |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | 2 | Milena Titoneli (BRA) Aliyah Shipman (HAI) |
| European Qualification Tournament | 2 | Farida Azizova (AZE) Magda Wiet-Hénin (FRA) |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | 2 | Julyana Al-Sadeq (JOR) Nigora Tursunkulova (UZB) |
| Host nation / Universality places | 1 | Naomie Katoka (COD) |
| Total | 16 | |

### +67 kg

| Competition | Places | Qualified athletes |
| WT Olympic Rankings (as of December 2019) | 6 | Bianca Walkden (GBR) Zheng Shuyin (CHN) Lee Da-bin (KOR) Milica Mandić (SRB) Nafia Kuş (TUR) Aleksandra Kowalczuk (POL) |
| WT Grand Slam Series Rankings | 0 | — |
| African Qualification Tournament | 2 | Aminata Traoré (CIV) Faith Ogallo (KEN) |
| Oceania Qualification Tournament | 1 | Reba Stewart (AUS) |
| Pan American Qualification Tournament | 2 | Katherine Rodríguez (DOM) Briseida Acosta (MEX) |
| European Qualification Tournament | 2 | Althéa Laurin (FRA) Reshmie Oogink (NED) |
| Asian Qualification Tournament | 2 | Cansel Deniz (KAZ) Svetlana Osipova (UZB) |
| Host nation / Universality places | 1 | Keyla Ávila (HON) |
| Total | 16 | |