This article details the qualifying phase for taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. (The Olympics was postponed to at least 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).[2] The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 128 taekwondo fighters coming from their respective NOCs. Each NOC is allowed to enter up to one competitor per event, resulting in a maximum of eight competitors, four of each gender.

Five quota places will be awarded to the top-ranked practitioners in each of the eight weight classes (four per gender) through the World Taekwondo (WT) Olympic rankings, while the highest-ranked practitioner of each weight category on merit points standing will grant one quota place each for their respective NOC through the WT Grand Slam Champions Series. If an NOC has qualified a minimum of two male and a minimum of two female athletes through ranking, it cannot participate in the respective Continental Qualification Tournament, unless it relinquishes the places obtained through ranking.[1]

Four places have been reserved to the host nation Japan, and another four have been invited by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 120 places are allocated through a qualification process in which athletes have won quota place for their respective NOC. 48 taekwondo fighters, 24 in each gender and the top 6 in each weight category, are eligible to compete through the WT Olympic rankings, while the rest through the five Continental Qualification Tournaments.[1]

If an NOC having qualified through a Qualification Tournament relinquishes a quota place, it would be allocated to the nation of the next highest placed athlete in the respective weight category of that tournament as long as the addition of the place does not exceed the maximum quota for that nation.[1]

Timeline

EventDateVenue
WT Olympic RankingsDecember 7, 2019—
WT Grand Slam Series RankingsDecember 20, 2019—
African Qualification TournamentFebruary 22–23, 2020Morocco Rabat, Morocco
Oceania Qualification TournamentFebruary 29, 2020Australia Gold Coast, Australia
Pan American Qualification TournamentMarch 11–12, 2020Costa Rica Heredia, Costa Rica
European Qualification TournamentMay 7–8, 2021Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria[note 1]
Asian Qualification TournamentMay 21–22, 2021Jordan Amman, Jordan[note 2]

Qualification summary

The following table summarises the outcome of qualification for the taekwondo tournament at the 2020 Olympics. 57 nations gained at least one quota place for Tokyo. China and South Korea were the most successful nation, gaining six places each, followed by the leading European nations, Great Britain and Turkey with five apiece. The tripartie commission quotas were announced on June 24, 2021.[6]

NOC Men Women Total
−58 kg−68 kg−80 kg+80 kg−49 kg−57 kg−67 kg+67 kg
 AfghanistanYes1
 ArgentinaYes1
 AustraliaYesYesYesYes4
 AzerbaijanYesYes2
 BelgiumYes1
 Bosnia and HerzegovinaYes1
 BrazilYesYesYes3
 Burkina FasoYes1
 CanadaYesYes2
 ChinaYesYesYesYesYesYes6
 Chinese TaipeiYesYesYesYes4
 ColombiaYesYes2
 CroatiaYesYesYesYes4
 Costa RicaYes1
 CubaYes1
 Democratic Republic of the CongoYes1
 Dominican RepublicYesYesYes3
 EgyptYesYesYesYes4
 EthiopiaYes1
 FranceYesYes2
 GabonYes1
 GermanyYes1
 Great BritainYesYesYesYesYes5
 GreeceYes1
 HaitiYes1
 HondurasYes1
 HungaryYes1
 IranYesYesYes3
 IrelandYes1
 IsraelYes1
 ItalyYesYes2
 Ivory CoastYesYesYesYes4
 JapanYesYesYesYes4
 JordanYesYes2
 KazakhstanYesYes2
 KenyaYes1
 MaliYes1
 MexicoYesYes2
 MoroccoYesYesYes3
 NetherlandsYes1
 New ZealandYes1
 NigerYesYes2
 NigeriaYes1
 North MacedoniaYes1
 NorwayYes1
 PhilippinesYes1
 PolandYesYes2
 PortugalYes1
 Puerto RicoYes1
 Refugee Olympic TeamYesYesYes3
 ROCYesYesYesYes4
 SerbiaYesYes2
 SloveniaYes1
 South KoreaYesYesYesYesYesYes6
 SpainYesYesYesYes4
 ThailandYesYes2
 TongaYesYes2
 TunisiaYes1
 TurkeyYesYesYesYesYes5
 United StatesYesYes2
 UzbekistanYesYesYesYes4
 VietnamYes1
Total: 62 NOCs1617161617171616131

Men's events

Quota places are allocated to the respective NOC and not to competitor that achieved the place in the qualification event.

−58 kg

CompetitionPlacesQualified athletes
WT Olympic Rankings
(as of December 2019)		6 Jang Jun (KOR)
 Vito Dell'Aquila (ITA)
 Jesús Tortosa (ESP)
 Armin Hadipour (IRI)
 Mikhail Artamonov (ROC)
 Jack Woolley (IRL)[note 3]
WT Grand Slam Series Rankings0—
African Qualification Tournament2 Solomon Demse (ETH)
 Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi (TUN)
Oceania Qualification Tournament1 Safwan Khalil (AUS)
Pan American Qualification Tournament2 Lucas Guzmán (ARG)
 Jefferson Ochoa (COL)
European Qualification Tournament2 Omar Salim (HUN)
 Rui Bragança (POR)
Asian Qualification Tournament2 Kurt Bryan Barbosa (PHI)
 Ramnarong Sawekwiharee (THA)
Invitational / Host Country1 Sergio Suzuki (JPN)
Total16

−68 kg

CompetitionPlacesQualified athletes
WT Olympic Rankings
(as of December 2019)		6 Lee Dae-hoon (KOR)
 Bradly Sinden (GBR)
 Zhao Shuai (CHN)
 Javier Pérez (ESP)
 Jaouad Achab (BEL)
 Mirhashem Hosseini (IRI)[note 3]
WT Grand Slam Series Rankings0—
African Qualification Tournament2 Abdelrahman Wael (EGY)
 Seydou Fofana (MLI)
Oceania Qualification Tournament1 Tom Burns (NZL)
Pan American Qualification Tournament2 Edival Pontes (BRA)
 Bernardo Pié (DOM)
European Qualification Tournament2 Nedžad Husić (BIH)
 Hakan Reçber (TUR)
Asian Qualification Tournament2 Huang Yu-jen (TPE)
 Ulugbek Rashitov (UZB)
Invitational / Host Country1+1 Ricardo Suzuki (JPN)
 Abdullah Sediqi (EOR)
Total17

−80 kg

CompetitionPlacesQualified athletes
WT Olympic Rankings
(as of December 2019)		6 Maksim Khramtsov (ROC)
 Milad Beigi (AZE)
 Cheick Sallah Cissé (CIV)
 Nikita Rafalovich (UZB)
 Raúl Martínez (ESP)
 Toni Kanaet (CRO)[note 3]
WT Grand Slam Series Rankings0—
African Qualification Tournament2 Seif Eissa (EGY)
 Achraf Mahboubi (MAR)
Oceania Qualification Tournament1 Jack Marton (AUS)
Pan American Qualification Tournament2 Ícaro Miguel Soares (BRA)
 Moisés Hernández (DOM)
European Qualification Tournament2 Simone Alessio (ITA)
 Richard Ordemann (NOR)
Asian Qualification Tournament2 Saleh Al-Sharabaty (JOR)
 Liu Wei-ting (TPE)
Invitational / Host Country1 Faysal Sawadogo (BUR)
Total16

+80 kg

CompetitionPlacesQualified athletes
WT Olympic Rankings
(as of December 2019)		6 Vladislav Larin (ROC)
 In Kyo-don (KOR)
 Alexander Bachmann (GER)
 Abdoul Razak Issoufou (NIG)
 Ivan Trajkovič (SLO)
 Mahama Cho (GBR)[note 3]
WT Grand Slam Series Rankings0—
African Qualification Tournament2 Seydou Gbané (CIV)
 Anthony Obame (GAB)
Oceania Qualification Tournament1 Pita Taufatofua (TGA)
Pan American Qualification Tournament2 Rafael Alba (CUB)
 Carlos Sansores (MEX)
European Qualification Tournament2 Ivan Šapina (CRO)
 Dejan Georgievski (MKD)
Asian Qualification Tournament2 Sun Hongyi (CHN)
 Ruslan Zhaparov (KAZ)
Invitational / Host Country1 Farzad Mansouri (AFG)
Total16

Women's events

Quota places are allocated to the respective NOC and not to competitor that achieved the place in the qualification event.

−49 kg

CompetitionPlacesQualified athletes
WT Olympic Rankings
(as of December 2019)		7 Panipak Wongpattanakit (THA)
 Sim Jae-young (KOR)
 Tijana Bogdanović (SRB)
 Rukiye Yıldırım (TUR)
 Kristina Tomić (CRO)
 Wu Jingyu (CHN)[note 3]
 Yvette Yong (CAN)[note 4]
WT Grand Slam Series Rankings0—
African Qualification Tournament2 Nour Abdelsalam (EGY)
 Oumaima El-Bouchti (MAR)
Oceania Qualification Tournament0—
Pan American Qualification Tournament2 Andrea Ramírez (COL)
 Victoria Stambaugh (PUR)
European Qualification Tournament2 Adriana Cerezo (ESP)
 Avishag Semberg (ISR)
Asian Qualification Tournament2 Su Po-ya (TPE)
 Trương Thị Kim Tuyền (VIE)
Invitational / Host Country1+1 Miyu Yamada (JPN)
 Dina Pouryounes (EOR)
Total17

−57 kg

CompetitionPlacesQualified athletes
WT Olympic Rankings
(as of December 2019)		5 Jade Jones (GBR)
 Lee Ah-reum (KOR)
 Tatiana Kudashova (ROC)
 Hatice Kübra İlgün (TUR)
 Skylar Park (CAN)
WT Grand Slam Series Rankings1 Zhou Lijun (CHN)
African Qualification Tournament2 Nada Laaraj (MAR)
 Tekiath Ben Yessouf (NIG)
Oceania Qualification Tournament1 Stacey Hymer (AUS)
Pan American Qualification Tournament2 Anastasija Zolotic (USA)
 Nishy Lee Lindo (CRC)[note 5]
European Qualification Tournament2 Fani Tzeli (GRE)
 Patrycja Adamkiewicz (POL)
Asian Qualification Tournament2 Nahid Kiani (IRI)
 Lo Chia-ling (TPE)
Invitational / Host Country1+1 Mayu Hamada (JPN)
 Kimia Alizadeh (EOR)
Total17

−67 kg

CompetitionPlacesQualified athletes
WT Olympic Rankings
(as of December 2019)		6 Ruth Gbagbi (CIV)
 Nur Tatar (TUR)
 Matea Jelić (CRO)
 Lauren Williams (GBR)
 Zhang Mengyu (CHN)
 Paige McPherson (USA)[note 3]
WT Grand Slam Series Rankings0—
African Qualification Tournament2 Hedaya Malak (EGY)
 Elizabeth Anyanacho (NGR)
Oceania Qualification Tournament1 Malia Paseka (TGA)
Pan American Qualification Tournament2 Milena Titoneli (BRA)
 Aliyah Shipman (HAI)
European Qualification Tournament2 Farida Azizova (AZE)
 Magda Wiet-Hénin (FRA)
Asian Qualification Tournament2 Julyana Al-Sadeq (JOR)
 Nigora Tursunkulova (UZB)
Invitational / Host Country1 Naomie Katoka (COD)
Total16

+67 kg

CompetitionPlacesQualified athletes
WT Olympic Rankings
(as of December 2019)		6 Bianca Walkden (GBR)
 Zheng Shuyin (CHN)
 Lee Da-bin (KOR)
 Milica Mandić (SRB)
 Nafia Kuş (TUR)
 Aleksandra Kowalczuk (POL)[note 3]
WT Grand Slam Series Rankings0—
African Qualification Tournament2 Aminata Traoré (CIV)
 Faith Ogallo (KEN)
Oceania Qualification Tournament1 Reba Stewart (AUS)
Pan American Qualification Tournament2 Katherine Rodríguez (DOM)
 Briseida Acosta (MEX)
European Qualification Tournament2 Althéa Laurin (FRA)
 Reshmie Oogink (NED)
Asian Qualification Tournament2 Cansel Deniz (KAZ)
 Svetlana Osipova (UZB)
Invitational / Host Country1 Keyla Ávila (HON)
Total16

Notes

  1. ↑ The European Qualification Tournament was originally scheduled to be held on April 24–25, 2020 in Milan but was moved to Moscow, Russia due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. It was moved once again to Sofia, Bulgaria.[3]
  2. ↑ The qualifying tournament was moved from Wuxi to Amman because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4][5]
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 With the Grand Slam winner already qualified through the Olympic Rankings, the spot for the Grand Slam winner was re-allocated to the Olympic Rankings
  4. ↑ No eligible athlete contested the Oceania Qualification Tournament, and this quota was redistributed to Yvette Yong of Canada.[7]
  5. ↑ Fernanda Aguirre of Chile originally won the quota but she had to withdraw after testing positive for COVID-19.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Taekwondo" (PDF). WTF. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "European Qualification Tournament 2021: Bulgaria!". World Taekwondo Europe. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "WT President Chungwon Choue's message regarding the Tokyo 2020 qualification tournaments". World Taekwondo. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  5. ↑ Pavitt, Michael (22 February 2020). "World Taekwondo moves Asian Olympic qualifier from China to Jordan over coronavirus fears". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  6. ↑ Mora, Esteban (24 June 2021). "Exclusive: Wild cards for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". www.mastkd.com/. MasTKD. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Nichols, Paula; Chloe, Morrison (2 July 2021). "Team Canada to have two taekwondo athletes at Tokyo 2020". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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