2012 Summer Olympics / Taekwondo - Welterweight (men)

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

The taekwondo competition in the men's welterweight category, up to 80 kg, at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games 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 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

Hadi Saei Bonehkohal ( Iran )

Beijing 2008

Round of 16

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Ramin Azizov	3 - 2	Steven Lopez
Rasul Abduraim	1 - 5	Mauro Sarmiento
Nicolás García	8 - 2	Youssef Karami
Farkhod Negmatov	1 - 7	Lutalo Muhammad
Abdelrahman Ossama	8 - 9 SUD	Tommy Mollet
Arman Jeremjan	8 - 4	Sébastien Michaud
Sebastián Crismanich	9 - 5	Vaughn Scott
Nesar Ahmad Bahave	4 - 3	Issam Chernoubi

Quarter finals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Ramin Azizov	1 - 2	Mauro Sarmiento
Nicolás García	7 - 3	Lutalo Muhammad
Tommy Mollet	4 - 6	Arman Jeremjan
Sebastián Crismanich	9 - 1	Nesar Ahmad Bahave

Semifinals

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Mauro Sarmiento	1 - 2	Nicolás García
Arman Jeremjan	1 - 2	Sebastián Crismanich

Round of hope

The athletes who lost to finalist Nicolás García in the last sixteen and quarter-finals fought , then those who lost to Sebastián Crismanich .

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Lutalo Muhammad	11 - 7	Youssef Karami
Vaughn Scott	6 - 11	Nesar Ahmad Bahave

Fight for the bronze medal

Bronze for Lutalo Muhammad (GBR)

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Arman Jeremjan	3 - 9	Lutalo Muhammad
Nesar Ahmad Bahave	0 - 4	Mauro Sarmiento

final

August 10, 2012, 11:30 p.m. (CEST)

Fighter 1	Result	Fighter 2
Nicolás García	0 - 1	Sebastián Crismanich

Medals

Olympic champion Sebastián Crismanich (ARG)

Sebastián Crismanich achieved the first Argentine Olympic victory and medal win in Taekwondo.
Nicolás García and Lutalo Muhammad won the first welterweight medals for their countries.

space	Surname	nation
01	Sebastián Crismanich	Argentina
02	Nicolás García	Spain
03	Lutalo Muhammad	United Kingdom
03	Mauro Sarmiento	Italy

Web links

• SportsReference welterweight men