Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 80 kg

The men's 80 kg competition in taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing will take place in the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium on August 22. A total of 16 men will compete in this event, limited to fighters whose body weight is less than 80 kilograms. Preliminaries start 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 will be awarded at the Taekwondo competitions.

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

Medalists

Tournament 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=210
RD1-team01=flagIOCathlete|Lionel Baguissi|GAB|2008 Summer
RD1-score01=0
RD1-team02="'flagIOCathlete|Carlos Vásquez|VEN|2008 Summer
RD1-score02="'5
RD1-team03="'flagIOCathlete|Aaron Cook|GBR|2008 Summer
RD1-score03="'7
RD1-team04=flagIOCathlete|Anju Jason|MHL|2008 Summer
RD1-score04=0
RD1-team05=flagIOCathlete|Bahri Tanrıkulu|TUR|2008 Summer
RD1-score05=0
RD1-team06="'flagIOCathlete|Steven Lopez|USA|2008 Summer
RD1-score06="'3
RD1-team07="'flagIOCathlete|Mauro Sarmiento|ITA|2008 Summer
RD1-score07="'4
RD1-team08=flagIOCathlete|Sebastien Konan|CIV|2008 Summer
RD1-score08=1
RD1-team09=flagIOCathlete|Abdulqader Hikmat Sarhan|QAT|2008 Summer
RD1-score09=0
RD1-team10="'flagIOCathlete|Rashad Ahmadov|AZE|2008 Summer
RD1-score10="'5
RD1-team11="'flagIOCathlete|Sebastien Michaud|CAN|2008 Summer
RD1-score11="'2
RD1-team12=flagIOCathlete|Ángel Román|PUR|2008 Summer
RD1-score12=1
RD1-team13=flagIOCathlete|Miguel Ferrera|HON|2008 Summer
RD1-score13=1
RD1-team14="'flagIOCathlete|Zhu Guo|CHN|2008 Summer
RD1-score14="'3
RD1-team15=flagIOCathlete|Deepak Bista|NEP|2008 Summer
RD1-score15=0
RD1-team16="'flagIOCathlete|Hadi Saei|IRI|2008 Summer
RD1-score16="'7

RD2-team01=flagIOCathlete|Carlos Vásquez|VEN|2008 Summer
RD2-score01=2
RD2-team02="'flagIOCathlete|Aaron Cook|GBR|2008 Summer
RD2-score02="'5
RD2-team03=flagIOCathlete|Steven Lopez|USA|2008 Summer
RD2-score03=1
RD2-team04="'flagIOCathlete|Mauro Sarmiento|ITA|2008 Summer
RD2-score04="'2
RD2-team05="'flagIOCathlete|Rashad Ahmadov|AZE|2008 Summer
RD2-score05="'0 (SUP)
RD2-team06=flagIOCathlete|Sebastien Michaud|CAN|2008 Summer
RD2-score06=0
RD2-team07=flagIOCathlete|Zhu Guo|CHN|2008 Summer
RD2-score07=2
RD2-team08="'flagIOCathlete|Hadi Saei|IRI|2008 Summer
RD2-score08="'3

RD3-team01=flagIOCathlete|Aaron Cook|GBR|2008 Summer
RD3-score01=5
RD3-team02="'flagIOCathlete|Mauro Sarmiento|ITA|2008 Summer
RD3-score02="'6
RD3-team03=flagIOCathlete|Rashad Ahmadov|AZE|2008 Summer
RD3-score03=1
RD3-team04="'flagIOCathlete|Hadi Saei|IRI|2008 Summer
RD3-score04="'4

RD4-team01=flagIOCathlete|Mauro Sarmiento|ITA|2008 Summer
RD4-score01=4
RD4-team02=flagIOCathlete|Hadi Saei|IRI|2008 Summer
RD4-score02="'6

Repechage

3TeamBracket
RD1=Round 1
RD2=Bronze medal match

RD1-team1=flagIOCathlete|Zhu Guo|CHN|2008 Summer |RD1-score1=6
RD1-team2=flagIOCathlete|Deepak Bista|NEP|2008 Summer |RD1-score2=2

RD2-team1=flagIOCathlete|Aaron Cook|GBR|2008 Summer |RD2-score1=1
RD2-team2=flagIOCathlete|Zhu Guo|CHN|2008 Summer |RD2-score2=4

3TeamBracket
RD1=Round 1
RD2=Bronze medal match

RD1-team1=flagIOCathlete|Sebastien Konan|CIV|2008 Summer |RD1-score1=0
RD1-team2=flagIOCathlete|Steven Lopez|USA|2008 Summer |RD1-score2=3

RD2-team1=flagIOCathlete|Steven Lopez|USA|2008 Summer |RD2-score1=3"'
RD2-team2=flagIOCathlete|Rashad Ahmadov|AZE|2008 Summer |RD2-score2=2

References

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