London 2012

In 2010, the 1st Youth Olympic Games sanctioned by the IOC were held in Singapore. Taekwondo was an official event with five weight categories in both male and female divisions. Two years later, it was taekwondo's big moment.

For the 2012 London Olympics, the WTF had made dramatic changes. Protector and Scoring Systems and Instant Video Replays were both implemented. Some 6,000 people watched the bouts in the sold-out ExCel arena, as a differentiated points scoring system made bouts unpredictable and a reduced mat size made matches more exciting. In addition, the WTF Demonstration Team performed four times every day.

Finally, London Olympic taekwondo distributed eight gold medals to eight countries, laying to rest concerns that it was a Korea-dominated sport.

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Medal summary

Men's events

Under 58 kg	Joel González	Lee Dae-Hoon	Aleksey Denisenko
			Óscar Muñoz
Under 68 kg	Servet Tazegül	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed	Terrence Jennings
			Rohullah Nikpai
Under 80 kg	Sebastián Crismanich	Nicolás García	Lutalo Muhammad
			Mauro Sarmiento
Over 80 kg	Carlo Molfetta	Anthony Obame	Robelis Despaigne
			Liu Xiaobo

Women's events

Under 49 kg	Wu Jingyu	Brigitte Yagüe	Chanatip Sonkham
			Lucija Zaninović
Under 57 kg	Jade Jones	Hou Yuzhuo	Marlène Harnois
			Tseng Li-Cheng
Under 67 kg	Hwang Kyung-Seon	Nur Tatar	Paige McPherson
			Helena Fromm
Over 67 kg	Milica Mandić	Anne-Caroline Graffe	Anastasia Baryshnikova
			Maria Espinoza

Medal table

Rank	Nation				Total
1	Spain	1	2	0	3
2	China	1	1	1	3
3	South Korea	1	1	0	2
	Turkey	1	1	0	2
5	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
	Italy	1	0	1	2
7	Argentina	1	0	0	1
	Serbia	1	0	0	1
9	France	0	1	1	2
10	Gabon	0	1	0	1
	Iran	0	1	0	1
12	Russia	0	0	2	2
	United States	0	0	2	2
14	Afghanistan	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1

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