Olympic Taekwondo 2016: Medal Winners, Scores and Results After Wednesday
Wednesday night saw two different taekwondo events come to an end, as the women's 49-kilogram and men's 58-kilogram medal matches unfolded.
Here are the scores, results and medal distribution for each event:
| Sohui Kim | 7-6 | Tijana Bogdanovic |
| Patimat Abakarova | 7-2 | Yasmina Aziez |
| Panipak Wongpattanakit | 15-3 | Itzel Adilene Manjarrez Bastidas |
| Gold | Sohui Kim | South Korea |
| Silver | Tijana Bogdanovic | Serbia |
| Bronze A | Patimat Abakarova | Azerbaijan |
| Bronze B | Panipak Wongpattanakit | Thailand |
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| Shuai Zhao | 6-4 | Tawin Hanprab |
| Luisito Pie | 6-5 | Jesus Tortosa Cabrera |
| Kim Taehun | 7-5 | Carlos Ruben Navarro Valdez |
| Gold | Zhuai Zhao | China |
| Silver | Tawin Hanprab | Thailand |
| Bronze A | Luisito Pie | Dominican Republic |
| Bronze B | Kim Taehun | South Korea |
In taekwondo, fighters are well-protected with guards for the head, chest, groin, forearm and shins. Participants can only punch with a closed fist and kick with any part of the foot below the ankle.
Kicks can only be administered to the chest or head, while punches can only go to the chest.
One point is awarded for a basic attack to the chest; competitors get two points for a spinning kick and three points for a kick that connects with the opponent's head.
The fighter with the most points after three rounds is deemed the winner.
Bronze-Medal Matches
To start the medal events, the match for the first bronze of the women's 49-kilogram between France's Yasmina Aziez and Azerbaijan's Patimat Abakarova began tentatively.
Most of the first round was just the two fighters feeling each other out and trying to find their range.
The second round sprang to life after Abakarova landed a spinning kick to Aziez's head to grab three points. But the Frenchwoman responded well with a basic kick to the midsection.
Both fighters had their challenge cards revoked after failed attempts to overturn calls disputing kicks to the head.
Desperate for two points in the final round, Aziez came out aggressive, but she left her defenses open for Abakarova to record an additional four points to put the match away.
Panipak Wongpattanakit of South Korea jumped out to an early 3-0 lead over Mexico's Itzel Adilene Manjarrez Bastidas after the first round thanks to a double-kick to the midsection.
She blew it open in the second round after landing a pair of kicks to the head that also looked to have momentarily stunned Bastidas to make it 9-0.
However, Bastidas did answer with a kick to the head of her own to cut the deficit to six. But just two seconds before the end of the round, Wongpattanakit added one more point with a shot to the chest.
She piled it on in the third round, ending the match early after building a 12-point advantage to take the gold medal.
Like Abakarova and Aziez, the men's 58-kilogram bronze-medal match was scoreless after the first round between the Dominican Republic's Luisito Pie and Spain's Jesus Tortosa Cabrera.
Pie took a 1-0 lead after a kick to the chest protector, and it doubled when Cabrera's coach stood up in his coaching box.
With just seconds left in the second round, a spinning kick put Pie up 5-0, which looked insurmountable. But in the last seconds of the final round, Cabrera recorded five points with a pair of chest-protector shots and a spinning kick to Pie's head.
In sudden death, Pie won the bronze by landing a one-point kick to Cabrera's chest.
South Korea's Kim Taehun tried to buck that trend in his match against Mexico's Carlos Ruben Navarro Valdez, but his aggressive approach yielded nothing after the first two minutes.
He finally got on the board with 25 seconds in the second round with a three-pointer to the head. Taehun doubled it early in the third round, which was just enough to outlast a late rally by Valdez.
Gold-Medal Matches
South Korea's Sohui Kim was saved by the bell to take the gold medal against Serbia's Tijana Bogdanovic during Wednesday's first gold-medal match.
Kim landed two body blows to hop out to a 2-0 lead before Bogdanovic pulled one back before the first round ended.
She took a 5-1 lead after the two were tangled up but still managed to send a kick to the back of Bogdanovic's head.
After dropping down 6-1, Bogdanovic roared back to within one at 7-6, with three of those points coming off falls from Kim.
As the clock expired, Kim fell once again, which looked to have given Bogdanovic the tying point, but time ran out before she hit the floor, giving the South Korean the gold.
In the men's portion, China's Shuai Zhao took gold in a 6-4 decision over Thailand's Tawin Hanprab.
Zhao used his superior height difference to his advantage, keeping Hanprab far away enough to deter his attacks while he was able to reach with his legs.
He jumped out to a 3-0 lead after the first round thanks to a trio of kicks to the body.
Hanprab came out quickly to gain a point in the second round, but he gave it right back after a fall to keep his deficit at three heading into the final round.
The Thai fighter drew within one in the third after landing a kick to the head, but the taller Zhao kept Hanprab at bay to win the gold.
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