Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 58 kg

The men's 58 kg competition in taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing took place on August 20 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium. A total of 16 men competed in this event, limited to fighters whose body weight was less than 58 kilograms. Preliminaries started at 11:00, quarterfinals at 16:00, semifinals at 17:30, repechage at 18.30, bronze medal bouts at 19.30 and the final at 20:30. Two bronze medals were awarded at the Taekwondo competitions.

The main bracket consisted of a single elimination tournament, culminating in the gold medal match. A repechage was used to determine the bronze medal winners. Every competitor who lost to one of the two finalists competed in the repechage, another single-elimination competition. Each semifinal loser faced the last remaining repechage competitor from the opposite half of the bracket in a bronze medal match.

Medalists

Results

;Legend
*PTG — Won by Points Gap
*SUP — Won by Superiority

Main bracket

16TeamBracket-Compact-NoSeeds
RD1=Preliminary round
RD4=Gold medal match
team-width=200
RD1-team01="'flagIOCathlete|Guillermo Pérez|MEX|2008 Summer
RD1-score01="'3
RD1-team02=flagIOCathlete|Michael Harvey|GBR|2008 Summer
RD1-score02=2
RD1-team03="'flagIOCathlete|Rohullah Nikpai|AFG|2008 Summer
RD1-score03="'4
RD1-team04=flagIOCathlete|Levent Tuncat|GER|2008 Summer
RD1-score04=3
RD1-team05="'flagIOCathlete|Chutchawal Khawlaor|THA|2008 Summer
RD1-score05="'4
RD1-team06=flagIOCathlete|Jean Moloise Ogoudjobi|BEN|2008 Summer
RD1-score06=2
RD1-team07=flagIOCathlete|Tshomlee Go|PHI|2008 Summer
RD1-score07=0
RD1-team08=flagIOCathlete|Ryan Carneli|AUS|2008 Summer
RD1-score08=1
RD1-team09=flagIOCathlete|Chu Mu-Yen|TPE|2008 Summer
RD1-score09=7
RD1-team10=flagIOCathlete|Dickson Wamwiri|KEN|2008 Summer
RD1-score10=0
RD1-team11=flagIOCathlete|Gabriel Mercedes|DOM|2008 Summer
RD1-score11=3
RD1-team12=flagIOCathlete|Pedro Póvoa|POR|2008 Summer
RD1-score12=0
RD1-team13=flagIOCathlete|Alfonso Martínez|BIZ|2008 Summer
RD1-score13=1
RD1-team14=flagIOCathlete|Juan Antonio Ramos|ESP|2008 Summer
RD1-score14=2
RD1-team15=flagIOCathlete|Reza Naderian|IRI|2008 Summer
RD1-score15=1
RD1-team16=flagIOCathlete|Márcio Wenceslau|BRA|2008 Summer
RD1-score16=2

RD2-team01=flagIOCathlete|Guillermo Pérez|MEX|2008 Summer
RD2-score01=2
RD2-team02=flagIOCathlete|Rohullah Nikpai|AFG|2008 Summer
RD2-score02=1
RD2-team03="'flagIOCathlete|Chutchawal Khawlaor|THA|2008 Summer
RD2-score03=2
RD2-team04=flagIOCathlete|Ryan Carneli|AUS|2008 Summer
RD2-score04=0
RD2-team05=flagIOCathlete|Chu Mu-Yen|TPE|2008 Summer
RD2-score05=2
RD2-team06=flagIOCathlete|Gabriel Mercedes|DOM|2008 Summer
RD2-score06=3
RD2-team07=flagIOCathlete|Juan Antonio Ramos|ESP|2008 Summer
RD2-score07="'3
RD2-team08=flagIOCathlete|Márcio Wenceslau|BRA|2008 Summer
RD2-score08=2

RD3-team01=flagIOCathlete|Guillermo Pérez|MEX|2008 Summer
RD3-score01=3
RD3-team02=flagIOCathlete|Chutchawal Khawlaor|THA|2008 Summer
RD3-score02=1
RD3-team03="'flagIOCathlete|Gabriel Mercedes|DOM|2008 Summer
RD3-score03="'3
RD3-team04=flagIOCathlete|Juan Antonio Ramos|ESP|2008 Summer
RD3-score04=2

RD4-team01=flagIOCathlete|Guillermo Pérez|MEX|2008 Summer
RD4-score01=(SUP)
1
RD4-team02=flagIOCathlete|Gabriel Mercedes|DOM|2008 Summer
RD4-score02=1

Repechage

3TeamBracket
RD1=Round 1
RD2=Bronze medal match

RD1-team1=flagIOCathlete|Chu Mu-Yen|TPE|2008 Summer |RD1-score1= 1
RD1-team2=flagIOCathlete|Pedro Póvoa|POR|2008 Summer |RD1-score2= -1

RD2-team1=flagIOCathlete|Chutchawal Khawlaor|THA|2008 Summer |RD2-score1= 2
RD2-team2=flagIOCathlete|Chu Mu-Yen|TPE|2008 Summer |RD2-score2= 4

3TeamBracket
RD1=Round 1
RD2=Bronze medal match

RD1-team1=flagIOCathlete|Michael Harvey|GBR|2008 Summer |RD1-score1= 1
RD1-team2=flagIOCathlete|Rohullah Nikpai|AFG|2008 Summer |RD1-score2= 2

RD2-team1=flagIOCathlete|Rohullah Nikpai|AFG|2008 Summer |RD2-score1= "'4
RD2-team2=flagIOCathlete|Juan Antonio Ramos|ESP|2008 Summer |RD2-score2= 1

References

* [http://en.beijing2008.cn/sports/taekwondo/n214432203.shtml Competition format]