Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics - over 67 kg (women)

Competition Format

The winners of the fights of the preliminary round of the main draw go to the quarter-finals; the winners of the quarter-finals go to the semifinals; the winners of the semi-finals go to the finals, where they play a gold and silver medal. The losers to the finalists, respectively, in the preliminary round and in the quarter finals meet each other in two comforting matches. The winner of the consolation match is in the battles for the bronze medal with the losing semi-finalist from the other half of the grid. Two bronze medals are awarded.

Results

Abbreviations

• SUP - Winning with clear advantage

Main competitions

Comforting competition

The result of the quarterfinal match between Sarah Stevenson from the UK and Chen Zhong from China was revised following the appeal. Chen Zhong led 1–0 when, four seconds before the end of the match, Stevenson hit her opponent in the face, which should have given her two points. However, only half of the judges registered the hit, and Cheng Zhong was declared the winner. An hour later, the British delegation filed a protest, presenting the video as evidence. An unprecedented decision was made in taekwondo history and Stevenson was declared the winner ^[1] . After losing the next battle of Maria Espinosa from Mexico, she then won a bronze medal. This medal was the first at Stevens in three Olympiads.

The announcement of the quarter-final results was as follows:

The Supervisory Board of the competition carefully studied this case, made an analysis of the video and provided it to all the judges. In accordance with the second paragraph of page 64 of the rules of the competition of the World Taekwondo Federation, we decided to change the result and declare the British participant a winner. We apologize to the Chinese audience, but justice is more important. Thank you for understanding.

• Taekwondo on the website of the official website of the Games (English) (Chinese) (French)