2012 Summer Olympics / Taekwondo - Heavyweight (Men)

sport	Taekwondo
discipline	Heavyweight
gender	Men
place	Exhibition Center London
Attendees	16 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 11, 2012

The Taekwondo competition in the men's heavyweight division , the weight class over 80 kg, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held on August 11, 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 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

Cha Dong-min ( South Korea )

Beijing 2008

Round of 16

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Cha Dong-min	9 - 4	Ivan Trajkovic
Alexandros Nikolaidis	3 - 7	Bahri Tanrıkulu
Anthony Obame	9 - 2	Kaino Thomsen-Fuataga
Chika Chukwumerije	0 - 1	Robelis Despaigne
Carlo Molfetta	7 - 3	Alisher Gulow
Kenneth Edwards	4 - 6	Liu Xiaobo
Akmal Irgashev	4 - 13	Daba Modibo Keïta
Gaji Umarov	3 - 7	François Coulombe-Fortier

Quarter finals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Cha Dong-min	1 - 4	Bahri Tanrıkulu
Anthony Obame	7 - 6 SUD	Robelis Despaigne
Carlo Molfetta	6 - 5 SUD	Liu Xiaobo
Daba Modibo Keïta	11 - 6	François Coulombe-Fortier

Semifinals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Bahri Tanrıkulu	2 - 3	Anthony Obame
Carlo Molfetta	6 - 4	Daba Modibo Keïta

Round of hope

The athletes who lost to finalist Anthony Obame in the last sixteen and quarter-finals , then those who lost to Carlo Molfetta , fought .

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Robelis Despaigne	14 - 2 PTG	Kaino Thomsen-Fuataga
Alisher Gulow	1 - 6	Liu Xiaobo

Fight for the bronze medal

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Robelis Despaigne	Without a fight after Keïta's injury	Daba Modibo Keïta
Bahri Tanrıkulu	2 - 3	Liu Xiaobo

final

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

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Anthony Obame	9 - 9 SUP	Carlo Molfetta

Medals

Olympic Champion Carlo Molfetta (ITA)

After three South Korean victories in a row, Carlo Molfetta was won by an Italian who won the first Olympic Taekwondo victory for his country.
Anthony Obame not only won the first medal in Taekwondo for Gabon. It was also the first ever medal for the country at the Olympic Games.
Liu Xiaobo and Robelis Despaigne won the first heavyweight medals for their countries.

space	Surname	nation
01	Carlo Molfetta	Italy
02	Anthony Obame	Gabon
03	Liu Xiaobo	People's Republic of China
03	Robelis Despaigne	Cuba

Web links

• SportsReference heavyweight men

Individual evidence