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Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics | |
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IOC Code | TKW |
Governing body | World Taekwondo |
Events | 8 (men: 4; women: 4) |
Summer Olympics | |
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.