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Taekwondo competition

Taekwondo at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex
Dates	August 25 to August 28, 2004
Competitors	124 from 60 nations
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Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	Men	Women
	58 kg	49 kg
	68 kg	57 kg
	80 kg	67 kg
	+80 kg	+67 kg
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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.

Qualification

Further information: Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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

Women's events

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

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Greece)

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	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
11	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

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

•  Argentina (2)
•  Australia (4)
•  Austria (2)
•  Azerbaijan (2)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•  Brazil (3)
•  Canada (2)
•  Central African Republic (1)
•  China (2)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Ivory Coast (1)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Dominican Republic (1)
•  Egypt (4)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (4)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Greece (4)
•  Guatemala (3)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Indonesia (2)
•  Iran (2)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (3)
•  Japan (1)
•  Jordan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (2)
•  Lesotho (1)
•  Libya (1)
•  Malaysia (1)
•  Mexico (3)
•  Morocco (3)
•  Nepal (1)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Nigeria (3)
•  Norway (1)
•  Philippines (3)
•  Poland (1)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Russia (2)
•  South Africa (1)
•  South Korea (4)
•  Spain (4)
•  Chinese Taipei (4)
•  Thailand (4)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United States (2)
•  Uzbekistan (2)
•  Venezuela (4)
•  Vietnam (2)
•  Yemen (1)

External links

• Official result book – Taekwondo