Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics athlete per weight category. Medals are awarded in four different weight classes for both men and women. Updated until 2016 Olympics Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics made its first appearance 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. There were no demonstration sports at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Taekwondo became a full medal sport
Taekwondo (where competitors perform prescribed board breaks at great heights). Some organizations deliver multi-discipline competitions, for example the British Student Taekwondo Federation's inter-university competitions, which have included separate WT rules sparring, ITF rules sparring, Kukkiwon patterns and Chang-Hon patterns events run in parallel since 1992. American Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) competitions are very similar, except that different styles of pads and gear are allowed. Apart from WT and ITF tournaments, major taekwondo competitions (all featuring WT taekwondo only) include: Taekwondo is also an optional sport at the Commonwealth Games. In taekwondo schools - even outside Korea - Korean language commands and