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Full name | Andrew William James Deer | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sutton Coldfield, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | -74 kg ,–80 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Tamworth Manchester Aces | ||||||||||||||||||||
Team | AD Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Paul Green | ||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Now coaching | Amy Truesdale · Matthew Bush · Joseph Lane · Beth Munro | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest world ranking | WR 5th −74 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrew Deer is an English taekwondo athlete. [1]
In 2015, Deer representing Great Britain, competed in the -74kg category in the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships in May 2015. In 2017, he became a National Development Coach on the Sports England funded programme. In 2018 after working as project lead coach, Great Britain Taekwondo was awarded sufficient funding for a full to programme, and as a result of the funding, he became Great Britain's first Taekwondo Paralympic Coach.