Data Analysis about the Rio 2016 Taekwondo Olympic Sport

1. Taekwondo Rio 2016 Analysis
By Si-Sowaddi AING

2. Summary
❏ Olympic History
❏ Data Opportunity
❏ TKD Analysis
❏ Take aways

3. Olympic History

4. Olympic History
"Taekwondo may be the only Olympic sport with an upgrade cycle as fast as the iPhone's"

5. Olympic History

6. Data Opportunity

7. Data Opportunity

8. Data Opportunity

9. Data Opportunity

10. TKD Analysis
Why?
● To demystify... like “Is XYZ true?”
● To validate… like “I think that XYZ”
Data beats opinion #yeah #thumbsup
● Olympic Taekwondo for young people only?
● Olympic tkd for tall and skinny people?
● Are males more aggressive than females?
● Are punches useless?
● What about head kicks?
● Wow TKD is a KO system sport… #waitforit

11. TKD Analysis - Average Age / division

12. TKD Analysis - Relation weight and height
Men divisionsWomen divisions

13. TKD Analysis - total scores by attack / division

14. TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

15. TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

16. TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

17. TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

18. TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

19. TKD Analysis - Defensive and Offensive % Share

20. Take aways
● Digital (r)evolution of the sport
● Embrace it
● Data are there
● How these data can help my fighters, my coach, my referee, my club, my
students...?
● From this you should do/train/teach differently

21. Appendix - links
● http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/07/10/germanys-12th-man-at-the-world-cup-bi
g-data/
● https://www.wired.com/2016/08/not-just-taekwondo-looks-totally-different-rio
/
● https://www.rio2016.com/en/taekwondo

22. Appendix - TKD Analysis - total kicks / division