Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Taekwondo at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Grand Palais
Dates	7–10 August 2024
No. of events	8 (4 men, 4 women)
Competitors	134 from 60 nations
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The taekwondo competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 7 to 10 August at the Grand Palais strip. 128 taekwondo fighters, with an equal distribution between men and women, will compete across eight different weight categories (four per gender) at the Games, the same amount as the previous editions since Beijing 2008. Each weight category is composed of sixteen taekwondo fighters; however, this figure may increase if additional athletes are invited and selected from the Refugee Olympic Team.

Qualification

The taekwondo competition for Paris will feature a total of 128 athletes (64 men and 64 women) across eight different weight categories, the same amount as the previous editions since Beijing 2008. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of eight taekwondo fighters, with one per bodyweight category and four per gender.

The qualification window commences with the five spots awarded to the top-ranked practitioners in each of the eight weight classes (four per gender) through the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Olympic rankings and another spot to the highest of each weight category based on the merit points accrued in the WT Grand Slam Champions Series, scheduled for December 16–17, 2023 in Wuxi, China. At the beginning of the 2024 season, five continental qualification tournaments will offer the majority of the berths to the top two taekwondo fighters of each weight category from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe; and to the highest-ranked from Oceania.

The NOC containing at least two female or male taekwondo fighters through the ranking is deemed ineligible to participate in the respective Continental Qualification Tournament unless it relinquishes the places obtained. This pathway also applies to the host nation France with its reservation of two men's and women's spots (one in each weight category). Four further quota places will be entitled to the eligible NOCs interested to have their taekwondo practitioners compete in Paris 2024 through the Tripartite Commission Invitation.

Competition schedule

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	2	0	1	3
2	Iran	1	2	1	4
3	Uzbekistan	1	1	0	2
4	France*	1	0	1	2
	Tunisia	1	0	1	2
6	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Thailand	1	0	0	1
8	China	0	1	1	2
9	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	Jordan	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
13	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Ivory Coast	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 NOCs)		8	8	16	32

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg) details	Park Tae-joon  South Korea	Gashim Magomedov  Azerbaijan	Cyrian Ravet  France
			Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi  Tunisia
Featherweight (68 kg) details	Ulugbek Rashitov  Uzbekistan	Zaid Kareem  Jordan	Liang Yushuai  China
			Edival Pontes  Brazil
Middleweight (80 kg) details	Firas Katoussi  Tunisia	Mehran Barkhordari  Iran	Simone Alessio  Italy
			Edi Hrnic  Denmark
Heavyweight (+80 kg) details	Arian Salimi  Iran	Caden Cunningham  Great Britain	Rafael Alba  Cuba
			Cheick Sallah Cissé  Ivory Coast

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (49 kg) details	Panipak Wongpattanakit  Thailand	Guo Qing  China	Mobina Nematzadeh  Iran
			Lena Stojković  Croatia
Featherweight (57 kg) details	Kim Yu-jin  South Korea	Nahid Kiani  Iran	Skylar Park  Canada
			Kimia Alizadeh  Bulgaria
Middleweight (67 kg) details	Viviana Márton  Hungary	Aleksandra Perišić  Serbia	Kristina Teachout  United States
			Sarah Chaâri  Belgium
Heavyweight (+67 kg) details	Althéa Laurin  France	Svetlana Osipova  Uzbekistan	Lee Da-bin  South Korea
			Nafia Kuş  Turkey

Participating nations

There were 60 participating nations:

See also

• Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Paralympics