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.

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Medal table

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
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	1	2
9	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
	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

Participating nations

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

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2.

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