2012 Summer Olympics / Taekwondo - Featherweight (Women)

sport	Taekwondo
discipline	Featherweight
gender	Women
place	Exhibition Center London
Attendees	16 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2012

The taekwondo competition in the women's featherweight , weight class up to 57 kg, at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games in London was held on August 9, 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

Lim Su-jeong ( South Korea )

Beijing 2008

Round of 16

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Tseng Li-cheng	4 - 1	Rangsiya Nisaisom
Nidia Muñoz	2 - 4	Andrea Paoli
Ana Zaninović	11 - 14	Mayu Hamada
Dragana Gladović	1 - 15 PTG	Jade Jones
Hedaya Malak	17 - 6	Robin Cheong
Yeny Contreras	3 - 14	Marlène Harnois
Bineta Diedhiou	6 - 9	Suvi Mikkonen
Diana Lopez	0 - 1 SUD	Hou Yuzhuo

Quarter finals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Tseng Li-cheng	5 - 2	Andrea Paoli
Mayu Hamada	3 - 13	Jade Jones
Hedaya Malak	6 - 8	Marlène Harnois
Suvi Mikkonen	2 - 7	Hou Yuzhuo

Semifinals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Tseng Li-cheng	6 - 10	Jade Jones
Marlène Harnois	3 - 8	Hou Yuzhuo

Round of hope

The athletes who lost to finalist Jade Jones in the last sixteen and quarter-finals fought , then those who lost to Hou Yuzhuo .

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Dragana Gladović	2 - 15 PTG	Mayu Hamada
Diana Lopez	4 - 9	Suvi Mikkonen

Fight for the bronze medal

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Mayu Hamada	8 - 12	Marlène Harnois
Tseng Li-cheng	14 - 2 PTG	Suvi Mikkonen

final

August 9, 2012, 11:15 p.m. (CEST)

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Jade Jones	6 - 4	Hou Yuzhuo

Medals

After three South Korean victories in a row in this weight class, Jade Jones achieved the first Olympic victory for Great Britain in Taekwondo.
Hou Yuzhuo (CHN), Marlène Harnois (FRA) and Tseng Li-cheng (TPE) won the first medals for their countries in featherweight.

space	Surname	nation
01	Jade Jones	United Kingdom
02	Hou Yuzhuo	People's Republic of China
03	Marlène Harnois	France
03	Tseng Li-cheng	Chinese Taipei

Web links

• Featherweight women