# Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 49 kg

The women's 49 kg competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 17 August, at the Carioca Arena 3. Chinese defending champion Wu Jingyu lost to the silver medalist Tijana Bogdanović in the quarterfinal, unable to win her third Olympic gold. Instead, South Korea's Kim So-hui finished first, beating Panipak Wongpattanakit from Thailand in the process. Wongpattanakit eventually grabbed a bronze medal in the repechage.

## Competition format

The main bracket consisted of a single elimination tournament, culminating in the gold medal match. The top eight athletes in each event were seeded so as not to face each other in the preliminary round. The remainder of the qualified athletes were drawn randomly on 15 August 2016. Two bronze medals were awarded at the Taekwondo competitions. A repechage was used to determine the bronze medal winners. Every competitor who lost to one of the two finalists competed in the repechage, another single-elimination competition. Each semifinal loser faced the last remaining repechage competitor from the opposite half of the bracket in a bronze medal match.

## Schedule

All times are in local time (UTC-3).
| Date | Time | Round |
| Wednesday, 17 August 2016 | 9:00 15:00 17:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 | Preliminary round Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage Bronze medal matches Final |

## Seeds

Every practitioner was seeded at the event. Practitioners representing the hosting nation were seeded as no. 4 regardless of their current world ranking.
* Wu Jingyu (CHN)
* Panipak Wongpattanakit (THA)
* Lucija Zaninović (CRO)
* Iris Sing (BRA)
* Itzel Manjarrez (MEX)
* Yasmina Aziez (FRA)
* Kim So-hui (KOR)
* Tijana Bogdanović (SRB)
* Patimat Abakarova (AZE)
* Julissa Diez (PER)
* Monica Pimentel (ARU)
* Rosa Keleku (COD)
* Andrea Kilday (NZL)
* Ainur Yesbergenova (KAZ)
* Maria Andrade (CPV)
* Huang Huai-hsuan (TPE)

## Results
### Legend

* PTG – Won by points gap
* SUD – Won by sudden death (golden point)

### Main bracket

| Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 13 | Andrea Kilday (NZL) | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | Iris Tang Sing (BRA) | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | Iris Tang Sing (BRA) | 7 | 4 | Iris Sing (BRA) | 4 | | | | | | | |
| | | | 5 | Itzel Manjarrez (MEX) | 14 | | | | | | | |
| 5 | Itzel Manjarrez (MEX) | 9 | 5 | Itzel Manjarrez (MEX) | 14 | | | | | | | |
| 12 | Rosa Keleku (COD) | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 12 | Rosa Keleku (COD) | 5 | | | | 5 | Itzel Manjarrez (MEX) | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | | | 8 | Tijana Bogdanović (SRB) | 10 | | | | |
| 9 | Patimat Abakarova (AZE) | 2 | | | | | | | 8 | Tijana Bogdanović (SRB) | 10 | | | | |
| 8 | Tijana Bogdanović (SRB) | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | Tijana Bogdanović (SRB) | 3 | 8 | Tijana Bogdanović (SRB) | 17 | | | | | | | |
| | | | 1 | Wu Jingyu (CHN) | 7 | | | | | | | |
| 1 | Wu Jingyu (CHN) | 10 | 1 | Wu Jingyu (CHN) | 7 | | | | | | | |
| 16 | Huang Huai-hsuan (TPE) | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 16 | Huang Huai-hsuan (TPE) | 1 | | | | | | | | 8 | Tijana Bogdanović (SRB) | 6 |
| | | | | | | | | | | 7 | Kim So-hui (KOR) | 7 |
| 15 | Maria Andrade (CPV) | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | Kim So-hui (KOR) | 7 |
| 2 | Panipak Wongpattanakit (THA) | 18 (PTG) | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | Panipak Wongpattanakit (THA) | 18 (PTG) | 2 | Panipak Wongpattanakit (THA) | 5 | | | | | | | |
| | | | 7 | Kim So-hui (KOR) | 6 | | | | | | | |
| 7 | Kim So-hui (KOR) | 10 | 7 | Kim So-hui (KOR) | 6 | | | | | | | |
| 10 | Julissa Diez (PER) | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 10 | Julissa Diez (PER) | 2 | | | | 7 | Kim So-hui (KOR) | 1 (SUD) | | | | |
| | | | | | | 6 | Yasmina Aziez (FRA) | 0 | | | | |
| 11 | Monica Pimentel (ARU) | 1 | | | | | | | 6 | Yasmina Aziez (FRA) | 0 | | | | |
| 6 | Yasmina Aziez (FRA) | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | Yasmina Aziez (FRA) | 2 | 6 | Yasmina Aziez (FRA) | 4 | | | | | | | |
| | | | 3 | Lucija Zaninović (CRO) | 3 | | | | | | | |
| 3 | Lucija Zaninović (CRO) | 18 | 3 | Lucija Zaninović (CRO) | 3 | | | | | | | |
| 14 | Ainur Yesbergenova (KAZ) | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage | Repechage | Bronze medal matches | Bronze medal matches |
| Wu Jingyu (CHN) | 3 | Yasmina Aziez (FRA) | 2 |
| Patimat Abakarova (AZE) | 4 | Patimat Abakarova (AZE) | 7 |
| Julissa Diez (PER) | 2 | Panipak Wongpattanakit (THA) | 15 (PTG) |
| Panipak Wongpattanakit (THA) | 4 | Itzel Manjarrez (MEX) | 3 |