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Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics

Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics
IOC CodeTKW
Governing bodyWorld Taekwondo
Events8 (men: 4; women: 4)
Summer Olympics
  • 1896
  • 1900
  • 1904
  • 1908
  • 1912
  • 1920
  • 1924
  • 1928
  • 1932
  • 1936
  • 1948
  • 1952
  • 1956
  • 1960
  • 1964
  • 1968
  • 1972
  • 1976
Note: demonstration or exhibition sport years indicated in italics

Taekwondo made its first appearance at the Olympics as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of taekwondo, with hundreds of adults and children performing moves in unison. Taekwondo was again a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.[1] Taekwondo became a full medal sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and has been a sport in the Olympic games since then.

  1. ^ Rowbottom, Mike (1 January 1996). "1996: The shape of things to come". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2014-03-20. Retrieved 2009-04-25.

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