2012 Summer Olympics / Taekwondo - Welterweight (women)

sport	Taekwondo
discipline	Welterweight
gender	Women
place	Exhibition Center London
Attendees	16 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2012

The Taekwondo competition in the welterweight women , the weight class up to 67 kg, at the Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London was held on August 10, 2012 in the Exhibition Center London . 16 fighters took part.

The competition was carried out in a knockout system . It started with the round of 16. The winners then went to the quarter-finals and semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals competed for gold and silver medals. The fighters who had lost to one of the finalists in the last sixteen and quarter-finals fought against each other in a round of hope. The two winners then fought for two bronze medals with the semi-final loser of the other finalist.

Note:
The bout winners and their scores are in bold.
The abbreviation PTG means that at the end of the second round or at any point in the third round the winner has achieved a lead of 12 points and the fight ends.
SUD means Sudden Death. In the event of a tie after the third round, a fourth round will be fought. The first evaluation decides on the victory.
If there is still no winner after the fourth round, the overall impression will be used (SUP).

Title holder

Olympic champion

Hwang Kyung-seon ( South Korea )

Beijing 2008

Round of 16

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Seham El-Sawalhy	0 - 6	Elin Johansson
Sousan Hajipour	4 - 5 SUD	Carmen Marton
Only tartare	5 - 1	Andrea St. Bernard
Paige McPherson	5 - 1	Sarah Stevenson
Hwang Kyung-seon	4 - 1	Ruth Gbagbi
Chu Hoàng Diệu Linh	1 - 13 PTG	Helena Fromm
Gülnafis Ajtmuchambetowa	11 - 15	Franka Anic
Farida Azizova	0 - 1	Karine Sergerie

Quarter finals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Elin Johansson	3 - 6	Carmen Marton
Only tartare	6 - 1	Paige McPherson
Hwang Kyung-seon	8 - 4	Helena Fromm
Franka Anic	10 - 5	Karine Sergerie

Semifinals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Carmen Marton	0 - 6	Only tartare
Hwang Kyung-seon	7 - 0	Franka Anic

Round of hope

The athletes who lost to the finalist Nur Tatar in the last sixteen and quarter-finals were fought , then those who lost to Hwang Kyung-seon .

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Andrea St. Bernard	2 - 15 PTG	Paige McPherson
Ruth Gbagbi	3 - 4	Helena Fromm

Fight for the bronze medal

Bronze medal for Helena Fromm (GER)

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Paige McPherson	8 - 3	Franka Anic
Carmen Marton	2 - 8	Helena Fromm

final

August 10, 2012, 11:15 p.m. (CEST)

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Only tartare	5 - 12	Hwang Kyung-seon

Medals

Hwang Kyung-seon , the defending champion, ensured the third South Korean success in this weight class. With three medals (in 2004 she won a bronze medal), she is the most successful taekwondoin at the Olympic Games.
Only Tatar (TUR) and Paige McPherson (USA) won the first welterweight medals for their countries.
With Helena Fromm , the first German Taekwondo won an Olympic medal.

space	Surname	nation
01	Hwang Kyung-seon	South Korea
02	Only tartare	Turkey
03	Helena Fromm	Germany
03	Paige McPherson	United States

Web links

• Welterweight women