2012 Summer Olympics / Taekwondo - Featherweight (Men)

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

The Taekwondo competition in the featherweight champion of the men , the weight category to 68 kg, with the 2012 Summer Games in London was August 9, 2012 in London Exhibition Center held. 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 semifinals 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 with the semi-final loser of the other finalist for two bronze medals.

Note:
The bout winners and their scores are in bold.
The abbreviation PTG means that the winner has reached a lead of 12 points at the end of the second round or at any point in the third round 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 winner.
If there is still no winner after the fourth round, the overall impression will be used (SUP).

Title holder

Olympic champion

Son Tae-jin ( South Korea )

Beijing 2008

Round of 16

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Serve tazegül	8 - 6	Terrence Jennings
Grigory Gusarov	10 - 6	Logan Campbell
Peter López	3 - 5	Damir Fejzić
Erick Osornio	2 - 5	Martin Stamper
Mohammad Abu-Libdeh	13 - 1 PTG	Isah Mohammad
Dmitri Kim	2 - 3 SOUTH	Diogo da Silva
Rohullah Nikpai	12 - 5	Michał Łoniewski
David Boui	2 - 7	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed

Quarter finals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Serve tazegül	9 - 2	Grigory Gusarov
Damir Fejzić	3 - 8	Martin Stamper
Mohammad Abu-Libdeh	5 - 7	Diogo da Silva
Rohullah Nikpai	4 - 5 SUD	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed

Semifinals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Serve tazegül	9 - 6	Martin Stamper
Diogo da Silva	5 - 5 SUP	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed

Round of hope

The athletes who lost to the finalist Servet Tazegül in the last sixteen and quarter-finals , then those who lost to Mohammad Bagheri Motamed , fought .

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Grigory Gusarov	2 - 3	Terrence Jennings
David Boui	2 - 14 PTG	Rohullah Nikpai

Fight for the bronze medal

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Terrence Jennings	8 - 5	Diogo da Silva
Martin Stamper	3 - 5	Rohullah Nikpai

final

August 9, 2012, 11:30 p.m. (CEST)

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Serve tazegül	6 - 5	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed

Medals

Servet Tazegül achieved the first Turkish Olympic victory in Taekwondo.
Rohullah Nikpai won the first Afghan featherweight medal.

space	Surname	nation
01	Serve tazegül	Turkey
02	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed	Iran
03	Terrence Jennings	United States
03	Rohullah Nikpai	Afghanistan

Web links

• SportsReference featherweight men