# Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo was a sport at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and featured 128 taekwondo fighters competing in eight weight categories; four for men, and four for women. The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Qualification

Taekwondo competition at these Games featured a total of 128 athletes, 64 males and 64 females, and 16 in each of the eight weight categories. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter up to one competitor per event, resulting in a maximum of eight competitors, four of each gender. In each weight class, five quota spots were available through World Taekwondo (WT) Olympic rankings, one quota spot was available through the WT Grand Slam Champions Series, nine quota spots were available through continental qualification events (two per continent, except Oceania with one), and quota spot was available either to the host (four classes chosen by the host, two per gender) or as a Tripartite Commission invitation (the remaining four classes).
If an NOC had qualified at least two female or male athletes through ranking, it could not participate in the respective Continental Qualification Tournament unless it relinquished the places obtained through ranking. This included the host, Japan, with its automatic qualification of two women and two men.

## Schedule

Schedule :
| Event↓/Date → | Jul 24 | Jul 25 | Jul 26 | Jul 27 |
| Men's 58 kg | F | | | |
| Men's 68 kg | | F | | |
| Men's 80 kg | | | F | |
| Men's +80 kg | | | | F |
| Women's 49 kg | F | | | |
| Women's 57 kg | | F | | |
| Women's 67 kg | | | F | |
| Women's +67 kg | | | | F |

## Participating
### Events by gender

| Weights | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Men's | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
| Women's | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 |

### Participating nations
## Medal summary

The 2020 Summer Olympics marked the first time that South Korea, which usually dominated the sport at the Olympics, had not won an Olympic gold medal in Taekwondo since the sport debuted in the 2000 Olympics.

### Medal table

| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | ROC | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Serbia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Thailand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Great Britain | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Jordan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | North Macedonia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Turkey | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Cuba | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Ivory Coast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (21 entries) | Totals (21 entries) | 8 | 8 | 16 | 32 |

### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight (58 kg) details | Vito Dell'Aquila Italy | Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi Tunisia | Jang Jun South Korea |
| Flyweight (58 kg) details | Vito Dell'Aquila Italy | Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi Tunisia | Mikhail Artamonov ROC |
| Featherweight (68 kg) details | Ulugbek Rashitov Uzbekistan | Bradly Sinden Great Britain | Hakan Reçber Turkey |
| Featherweight (68 kg) details | Ulugbek Rashitov Uzbekistan | Bradly Sinden Great Britain | Zhao Shuai China |
| Welterweight (80 kg) details | Maksim Khramtsov ROC | Saleh Al-Sharabaty Jordan | Toni Kanaet Croatia |
| Welterweight (80 kg) details | Maksim Khramtsov ROC | Saleh Al-Sharabaty Jordan | Seif Eissa Egypt |
| Heavyweight (+80 kg) details | Vladislav Larin ROC | Dejan Georgievski North Macedonia | In Kyo-don South Korea |
| Heavyweight (+80 kg) details | Vladislav Larin ROC | Dejan Georgievski North Macedonia | Rafael Alba Cuba |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight (49 kg) details | Panipak Wongpattanakit Thailand | Adriana Cerezo Spain | Tijana Bogdanović Serbia |
| Flyweight (49 kg) details | Panipak Wongpattanakit Thailand | Adriana Cerezo Spain | Avishag Semberg Israel |
| Featherweight (57 kg) details | Anastasija Zolotic United States | Tatiana Minina ROC | Lo Chia-ling Chinese Taipei |
| Featherweight (57 kg) details | Anastasija Zolotic United States | Tatiana Minina ROC | Hatice Kübra İlgün Turkey |
| Welterweight (67 kg) details | Matea Jelić Croatia | Lauren Williams Great Britain | Ruth Gbagbi Ivory Coast |
| Welterweight (67 kg) details | Matea Jelić Croatia | Lauren Williams Great Britain | Hedaya Wahba Egypt |
| Heavyweight (+67 kg) details | Milica Mandić Serbia | Lee Da-bin South Korea | Althéa Laurin France |
| Heavyweight (+67 kg) details | Milica Mandić Serbia | Lee Da-bin South Korea | Bianca Walkden Great Britain |