Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo was contested as an official sport at the Olympic Games for the first time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. It had previously been a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992. Medals were awarded in four weight classes each for men and women. Tran Hieu Ngan became the first Vietnamese Olympic medalist in this competition.[1]

Taekwondo
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Competitors103 from 51 nations
Taekwondo was held at the State Sports Centre in Sydney Olympic Park.

Qualification

Timeline

EventLocationDate
1999 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament PorečJuly 8–10, 1999
1999 African Regional Qualification Tournament JohannesburgSeptember 9–10, 1999
1999 Asian and Oceanian Regional Qualification Tournament ManilaSeptember 25–26, 1999
1999 Pan-American Regional Qualification Tournament MiamiOctober 2–3, 1999
1999 European Regional Qualification Tournament StockholmOctober 16–17, 1999

Qualified

Men
Competition Vacancies Qualified
-58 kg -68 kg -80 kg +80 kg
1999 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament 4 Huang Chih-hsiung
Gabriel Esparza
Kiyoteru Higuchi
Younès Sekkat
Hadi Saei
Tuncay Çalışkan
Aziz Acharki
Claudio Nolano
Muhammed Dahmani
Marcel More
Víctor Estrada
Faissal Ebnoutalib
Pascal Gentil
Kim Je-kyoung
Yahia Rashwan
Colin Daley
1999 African Regional Qualification Tournament 1 Talaat Abada Stanislas Ogoudjobi Mokete Mokhosi Donald Ravenscroft
1999 Asian and Oceanian Regional Qualification Tournament 2 Roberto Cruz
Naser Buftain
Kim Byung-uk
Hsu Chi-hung
Majid Aflaki
Donald Geisler
Khaled Al-Dosari
Zhang Weiyong
1999 Pan-American Regional Qualification Tournament 2 Jason Torres
Gabriel Taraburelli
Alejandro Hernando
Steven López
Ángel Matos
Félipe Soto
Carlos Delgado
Nelson Saenz
1999 European Regional Qualification Tournament 2 József Salim
Michalis Mouroutsos
Francisco Zas
Aslander Dzitiev
Roman Livaja
Mario de Meo
Marcus Thorén
Alexandros Nikolaidis
Host Country 1 Paul Lyons Carlo Massimino Warren Hansen Daniel Trenton
Wild Card/Invitation 2 Gabriel Sagastume
Mfanukhona Dlamini
Nizar Naeeli
Olivier Bernasconi
Mohamed Al-Fararjeh
Sebastien Konan
Milton Castro
Women
Competition Vacancies Qualified
-49 kg -57 kg -67 kg +67 kg
1999 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament 4 Kay Poe
Döndü Güvenc
Juana Wangsa Putri
Nguyen Thi Xuan Mai
Hamide Bıkçın Tosun
Cristiana Corsi
Hsu Chih-ling
Kang Hae-eun
Cho Hyang-mi
Ireane Ruiz
Mirjam Mueskens
Sarah Stevenson
Nataša Vezmar
Myriam Baverel
Adriana Carmona
Natalia Ivanova
1999 African Regional Qualification Tournament 1 Likeleli Thamae Shimaa Afifi Meriem Bidani Mounia Bourguigue
1999 Asian and Oceanian Regional Qualification Tournament 2 Lai Huei-fang
Eva Marie Ditan
Tran Hieu Ngan
Jasmin Strachan
Zhang Huijing
Yoriko Okamoto
Chen Zhong
Lee Wan Yuen
1999 Pan-American Regional Qualification Tournament 2 Yanelis Labrada
Águeda Pérez
Carmen Silva
Cheryl Ann Sankar
Barbara Kunkel
Monica del Real
Dominique Bosshart
Sonallis Mayan
1999 European Regional Qualification Tournament 2 Fadime Helvacioglu
Hanne Høgh Poulsen
Virginia Lourens
Areti Athanasopoulou
Kirsimarja Koskinen
Trude Gundersen
Elena Benitez Morales
Veera Liukkonen
Host Country 1 Lauren Burns Cynthia Cameron Lisa O'Keefe Tanya White

Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight (58 kg)
Michail Mouroutsos
 Greece
Gabriel Esparza
 Spain
Huang Chih-hsiung
 Chinese Taipei
Lightweight (68 kg)
Steven López
 United States
Sin Joon-sik
 South Korea
Hadi Saei
 Iran
Middleweight (80 kg)
Ángel Matos
 Cuba
Faissal Ebnoutalib
 Germany
Víctor Estrada
 Mexico
Heavyweight (+80 kg)
Kim Kyong-hun
 South Korea
Daniel Trenton
 Australia
Pascal Gentil
 France

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight (49 kg)
Lauren Burns
 Australia
Urbia Melendez
 Cuba
Chi Shu-ju
 Chinese Taipei
Lightweight (57 kg)
Jung Jae-eun
 South Korea
Tran Hieu Ngan
 Vietnam
Hamide Bıkçın Tosun
 Turkey
Middleweight (67 kg)
Lee Sun-hee
 South Korea
Trude Gundersen
 Norway
Yoriko Okamoto
 Japan
Heavyweight (+67 kg)
Chen Zhong
 China
Natalia Ivanova
 Russia
Dominique Bosshart
 Canada

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 South Korea (KOR)3104
2 Australia (AUS)1102
 Cuba (CUB)1102
4 China (CHN)1001
 Greece (GRE)1001
 United States (USA)1001
7 Germany (GER)0101
 Norway (NOR)0101
 Russia (RUS)0101
 Spain (ESP)0101
 Vietnam (VIE)0101
12 Chinese Taipei (TPE)0022
13 Canada (CAN)0011
 France (FRA)0011
 Iran (IRI)0011
 Japan (JPN)0011
 Mexico (MEX)0011
 Turkey (TUR)0011
Totals (18 nations)88824

Participating nations

A total of 103 taekwondo jins from 51 nations competed at the Sydney Games:

Controversies

  • Bronze medalist Chi Shu-Ju, Hamide Bıkçın Tosun, Hadi Saei and Pascal Gentil complained to the media about what they perceived as biased refereeing which made them lose their possible gold medal.[2][3] Pascal Gentil even refused to be photographed with his fellow medalists Kim Kyong-Hun and Daniel Trenton in the medal ceremony. Gold medalist Steven López revealed some inside story from his viewpoint in his family's 2009 book, Family Power: The True Story of How "The First Family of Taekwondo" Made Olympic History.[4]

References

  1. "Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  2. "London 2012 Olympic Games - ABC Grandstand Sport (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC Grandstand Sport.
  3. 《Family Power: The True Story of How "The First Family of Taekwondo" Made Olympic History》,Mark López, Steven López, Diana López,ISBN 978-0451228512
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