Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad

Venue	Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex
Dates	August 25 to August 28
Competitors	124 from 60 nations

Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Men		Women
	58 kg		49 kg
	68 kg		57 kg
	80 kg		67 kg
	+80 kg		+67 kg

Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics were held in the Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex in Athens, Greece where 124 competitors competed in eight events, four each for men and women.

Medal summary

The host nation Greece failed to add to the gold won by Michalis Mouroutsos at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, though Alexandros Nikolaidis and Elisavet Mystakidou both won silver. Chinese Taipei (i.e. Taiwan) won its first two gold medals ever at these events. Steven López of the United States and Chen Zhong of China each repeated as Olympic champions. Hadi Saei, Huang Chih-hsiung and Pascal Gentil also won medal for the second time.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg)	Chu Mu-Yen Chinese Taipei	Oscar Salazar Mexico	Tamer Bayoumi Egypt
Lightweight (68 kg)	Hadi Saei Iran	Huang Chih-hsiung Chinese Taipei	Song Myeong-Seob South Korea
Middleweight (80 kg)	Steven López United States	Bahri Tanrıkulu Turkey	Yousef Karami Iran
Heavyweight (+80 kg)	Moon Dae-Sung South Korea	Alexandros Nikolaidis Greece	Pascal Gentil France

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (49 kg)	Chen Shih-Hsin Chinese Taipei	Yanelis Labrada Cuba	Yaowapa Boorapolchai Thailand
Lightweight (57 kg)	Jang Ji-Won South Korea	Nia Abdallah United States	Iridia Salazar Mexico
Middleweight (67 kg)	Luo Wei China	Elisavet Mystakidou Greece	Hwang Kyung-Sun South Korea
Heavyweight (+67 kg)	Chen Zhong China	Myriam Baverel France	Adriana Carmona Venezuela

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2	1	0	3
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	2	4
3	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2
4	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
5	Iran (IRI)	1	0	1	2
6	Greece (GRE)	0	2	0	2
7	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
7	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	1	2
9	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
9	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
11	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1

A total of 124 taekwondo jins from 60 nations competed at the Athens Games:

Events at the 2004 Summer Olympics (Athens)

Archery Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Softball Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics

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