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Taekwondo At The 2016 Summer Olympics
Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 17 to 20 August at the Carioca Arena 3 inside the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca. Around 128 taekwondo fighters competed in eight weight categories; four for men, and four for women. Qualification Taekwondo competition at these Games featured a total of 128 athletes, 64 in each gender, and 16 in each of the eight weight categories. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter up to a maximum of eight competitors, four of each gender, based on the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Olympic rankings, such that an athlete per NOC must be among the top six in each weight category. If an NOC had qualified only two female and male athletes through ranking, it could not participate in the respective Continental Qualification Tournament unless it had relinquishing the places obtained through ranking. Four places had been reserved to the host nation Brazil, and another four had been invited by ...
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Carioca Arena 3
Carioca Arena 3 (Portuguese: ''Arena Carioca 3'') is an indoor stadium in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The venue hosted taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics, taekwondo and fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, fencing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the judo at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, judo and Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, wheelchair fencing competitions at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Carioca Arena 3 was planned to be transformed into a sports high school after the Games. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the structure of Carioca Arena 3 was used as a base for the health workers on vaccination programme. As of February 2022, the Arena is open for children engaged in sports activities promoted by the prefecture of Rio de Janeiro. See also * Carioca Arena 1 * Carioca Arena 2 References

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Taekwondo At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 57 Kg
The women's 57 kg competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 18 August, at the Carioca Arena 3. The defending champion, Jade Jones, representing Great Britain, successfully defended her title, winning her second Olympics gold. Eva Calvo from Spain finished with a silver medal, beating second-time Olympian Hedaya Malak in the semifinal and Iran's Kimia Alizadeh in the quarterfinal, both of whom went on to win a bronze in the repechage. Competition format The main bracket consisted of a single elimination tournament, culminating in the gold medal match. The top eight athletes in each event were seeded so as not to face each other in the preliminary round. The remainder of the qualified athletes were drawn randomly on 15 August 2016. Two bronze medals were awarded at the Taekwondo competitions. 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 comp ...
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Milad Beigi
Milad Beigi Harchegani ( fa, میلاد بیگی هرچگانی, az, Milad Beygi Hərçigani; born 1 March 1991 in Booshehr) is an Iranian-born naturalized Azerbaijani taekwondo practitioner who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.Milad Beigi
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Harchegani is of Qashqai ancestry. In February 2015, Beigi won the −80  kg gold medal in 26th Fajr Cup for Iran's B team. He was considered among Iran's prospects in , but it was declared that he had been replaced due to "injury" despite allegations that he has left threat ...
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Lutalo Muhammad
Lutalo Muhammad (born 3 June 1991) is a British taekwondo athlete who represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal, and the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal. He won the gold medal in the −87 kg class at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships. He is the most successful male in British taekwondo history. Early life Muhammad was born on 3 June 1991 in Walthamstow, London, England. He was coached by his father, Wayne Muhammad, in the art of taekwondo from the age of three. 2012 Summer Olympics Muhammad won the gold medal in the −87 kg class at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships. There is no −87 kg category in the Olympic Games; however, Muhammad was selected to be Britain's representative in the −80 kg category at the 2012 Summer Olympics. This decision was controversial as he was selected instead of Aaron Cook, who was the World No. 1 and European champion in the −80 kg class. The contr ...
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Cheick Sallah Cissé
Cheick Sallah Cissé (born 19 September 1993) is an Ivorian taekwondo athlete. After winning gold at the 2015 African Games in the men's 80 kg, he represented Ivory Coast at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the same category. He reached the final of the tournament, competing against Britain's Lutalo Muhammad. Behind by six points to five, Cissé scored with a head-kick in the final second of the match to win the tie 8–6 and take the gold medal. The gold was Ivory Coast's first ever Olympic title, and came on a night where Ruth Gbagbi won a bronze in the women's 67 kg taekwondo, increasing the country's all-time Olympic medals from one to three in one session. He also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
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Joel González
Joel González Bonilla (born 30 September 1989) is a taekwondo practitioner from Spain. He won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in the 58 kg division and the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics in the 68 kg category. González took up taekwondo at his father's gym Tae Sport. He has a degree in administration from the Technical University of Cartagena. References External links *Profile froThe-Sports.org 1989 births Living people People from Figueres Sportspeople from the Province of Girona Olympic gold medalists for Spain Olympic bronze medalists for Spain Spanish male taekwondo practitioners Taekwondo practitioners at the 2012 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in taekwondo Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Spain Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in taekwondo European Games bronz ...
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Lee Dae-hoon
Lee Dae-Hoon ( Hangul: 이대훈; ; born February 5, 1992) is a South Korean taekwondo athlete. He won a bronze medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics and a silver in the 2012 Summer Olympics. He has achieved world first level rankings in the under 68 kg weight class. Career Lee grew up practicing martial art at his father's taekwondo academy from age 5. He won the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, and repeated the feat at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. Originally a bantamweight (under 63 kg), Lee temporarily went down in weight to flyweight (under 58 kg) after the 2011 World Championships in order to compete in the 2012 Olympics, where there were only four weight classes. Lee made his international flyweight debut at the 2011 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan where he had his first international loss to 2008 Olympic silver medalist Gabriel Mercedes 14–12 in the semifinals. In May 2012, however, he captured his first flywe ...
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Alexey Denisenko
Alexey Alexeyevich Denisenko (russian: Алексей Алексеевич Денисенко; born 30 August 1993) is a Russian taekwondo practitioner. He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics in the 58 kg division and a silver at the 2016 Rio Games in the 68 weight category. In 2012 and 2016 he was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (of the second and first degree, respectively). In December 2016, Denisenko married Russian taekwondo fighter Anastasia Baryshnikova. He is of Gypsie The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with s ... descent. References External links * 1993 births Living people Russian male taekwondo practitioners Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Russia Taekwondo practitioners at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic silver m ...
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Ahmad Abughaush
Ahmad Abughaush (Arabic: أحمد أبو غوش; born 1 February 1996) is a Jordanian taekwondo athlete. He won the gold medal in the 68 kg category at the 2016 Olympics. This was Jordan's first Olympic medal in any sport, excluding a bronze in 1988 when taekwondo was a demonstration sport. Biography Abughaush was born in Amman, Jordan. His father is of Palestinian descent, his grandparents having been relocated from the town of Abu Ghosh to Jordan decades earlier. Abughaush started Taekwondo at a local training center in Amman, his skills qualified him for inclusion in the national team. In 2010, he participated in the Taekwondo World Championship for juniors that was held in Sharm el-Sheikh, where he was the only Arab athlete to achieve a gold medal. The year later he competed as an elite at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships in the men's finweight event and was beaten by Meisam Bagheri in the 16th finals. He participated in a number of more championships and was give ...
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Kim Tae-hun
Kim Tae-hun (; born August 15, 1994) is a South Korean taekwondo practitioner. Sports career During the 2013 World Taekwondo Championships Kim won gold in finweight, defeating Chia Lin-hsu. at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships Kim defended his title, defeating Stanislav Denisov. He won his third consecutive gold in the same weight category at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in Muju beating the Iranian Armin Hadipour in the final. He won the gold medal in the finweight division (under 54 kg) at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. In the 2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ..., he lost to eventual runner-up Tawin Hanprab of Thailand in their high scoring Preliminary Round match but was able to win the bronze medal throu ...
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Luisito Pie
Luisito is a hypocorism of the Spanish name Luis, which may also be found as a given name. Notable people include: *Luisito Campisi (born 1987), Italian footballer *Luisito Comunica (born 1991), Mexican YouTuber *Luisito Espinosa (born 1967), Filipino boxer *Luisito Martí (1945–2010), Dominican musician, comedian, actor, producer and television host *Luisito Pié (born 1994), Dominican taekwondo athlete *Luisito Rey Luis Gallego Sánchez (28 June 1945 – 9 December 1992), known professionally as Luisito Rey, was a Spanish singer-songwriter and music executive, best known as the father and first manager of Mexican singer Luis Miguel. Early life Lui ... (1945–1992), Spanish singer-songwriter * Luisito Vigoreaux (born 1951), Puerto Rican actor and producer Spanish-language hypocorisms ...
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Tawin Hanprab
Tawin "Tem" Hanprab ( th, เทวินทร์ หาญปราบ; ; born 1 August 1998 in Nong Suea District, Pathum Thani Province) is a Thai taekwondo practitioner. He won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ... Men's 58 kg. References External links * 1998 births Living people Tawin Hanprab Tawin Hanprab Taekwondo practitioners at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics Tawin Hanprab Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Tawin Hanprab Olympic medalists in taekwondo Universiade medalists in taekwondo Tawin Hanprab Southeast Asian Games medalists in taekwondo Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games Competitors at the 2017 Southeast Asian Ga ...
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