The women's 57-kg and men's 68-kg taekwondo competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro concluded on Thursday with a total of eight medals being handed out between the two events.With six total medal matches, here are the final results of Thursday's action:Bronze-Medal MatchesWomen's BracketEgypt's Hedaya Wahba needed just one lone point to win the bronze, defeating Belgium's Raheleh Asemani 1-0 in the night's first medal match.To add drama to the tense match, the point came in sudden death after the two fighters were held scoreless through three regulation rounds.Wahba secured the medal with a successful attack to the midsection of Asemani, making hard enough contact with her chest protector to record a point.In the other women's bronze-medal match, Iran's Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first round and never looked back on her way to a 5-1 win over Sweden's Nikita Glasnovic.Glasnovic's lone point came in the form of a Kyong-go from Zenoorin, who fell during the final round.Zenoorin, on the other hand, recorded three points from a kick to the head and one from a kick to Glasnovic's chest. Men's BracketAfter two rounds, Spain's Joel Gonzalez Bonilla was trailing Colombia's Edgar Contreras 2-1 with two minutes remaining.Bonilla made them count, recording three points in the third round to secure the bronze, 4-3. His points came in the form of a defensive kick to Contreras' head.In the second men's match, South Korea's Lee Daehoon and Belgium's Jaouad Achab were carbon copies of each other after two rounds.Both fighters recorded three points via kicks to the head in the first, while defensive kicks provided another point apiece in the second, as they headed into the final two minutes tied at four.Achab took a 5-4 lead early in the round and was playing defensively to clinch the win, but Daehoon landed a three-point kick to the head to take a 7-5 lead with 22 seconds left.In a frantic attempt to tie, Achab went all out on Daehoon but left himself open for a counter, allowing the South Korean to record four points in the final seconds. Gold-Medal MatchesWomen's BracketGreat Britain's Jade Jones' huge first and third rounds fueled her to a 16-7 lead for the gold medal over Spain's Eva Calvo Gomez.Jones roared out to a 6-0 lead in the first round after landing a pair of three-point head kicks in quick succession, stunning Gomez.The Spaniard found a way to battle back, though. After a pair of defensive kicks for two points, a push point and a kick to the head drew her to within one at 7-6 headed into the final round.But Jones blew it open in the third, scoring eight points in the first minute to put away any doubt that she would win her second gold medal. Men's BracketJordan's Ahmad Abughaush chose the perfect times to go on the offensive throughout his gold-medal match against Russia's Alexey Denisenko, winning 10-6.Abughaush set the tone for the night early. He started as the aggressor, going straight after Denisenko the moment the match began. But the Russian was quick to go into defensive mode and quell any sort of early momentum that the Jordanian could have built.Abughaushdid manage to slip a one-point kick past Denisenko seconds into the second round to record the first point of the match.After the point, though, Abughaush looked content on sitting back, inviting Denisenko to pressure, though the Russian was unable to get anything in the second round.In the beginning of the third round, like he did in the prior two, Abughaush came out firing once again, grabbing another point on a defensive kick.Denisenko got on the board with a one-pointer of his own before Abughaush reopened a two-point lead.With 32 seconds left, Abughaush attacked once again and put on a dizzying display that gained four points, opening up a 7-2 lead. After Denisenko added another point, the Jordanian put the match away with another three-point kick to the head to win gold. Stats courtesy of Rio2016.com.
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