This is the seventh appearance of the men's 58kg category, debut in 2000, and it has appeared in every games since then.
Vito Dell'Aquila was a defending Olympic champion, but he lost to Gashim Magomedov, later Dell'Aquila got into repechages, and lost to Cyrian Ravet in bronze medal matches, Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi won a bronze medal as well, by beating Adrián Vicente, after, Magomedov got into finals, and Park Tae-joon beat Magomedov to win a gold medal, became the first time since 2016, that Korea won gold in taekwondo, Mikhail Artamonov did not qualify because of the IOC did not declare them neutral and he was not invited to the Games.
Every practitioner was seeded at the event. Practitioners representing the hosting nation were seeded as no. 4 regardless of their current world ranking.