Ela Aydin

Ela Aydin
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	12 January 1999 (age 25); Munich, Germany
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Taekwondo
Event	–49 kg
Club	TSV Dachau 1865 e.V.
Turned pro	2018
Coached by	Demirhan Aydin
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking	5 (2022)
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing Germany
Grand Prix
European Championships
Military World Games
European U21 Championships
	Updated on 30 March 2024

Last updated June 06, 2024

Ela Aydin (born 12 January 1999) is a German taekwondo athlete. Her greatest achievements are a bronze medal at the 2022 Grand Prix in Paris and two bronze medals at European Championships.

Career

Junior

Ela Aydin began practicing taekwondo at the age of five and participated in her first competition at age six. When she was 14, she was selected to represent the German national team at her first U15 European Championship in Bucharest in 2013, where she won a bronze medal.^[3]

In the years following, Aydin took part in several competitions such as the taekwondo Youth World Championships and several European Championships. In 2016, she tore a cruciate ligament in her knee and due to undergoing surgery had to take a break from competing.^[4]^[5]

Senior

In 2017, Aydin won a silver medal at the U21 European Championships in Sofia. In 2018, she participated in the European Championships in Kazan but lost in the prelims against the eventual European Champion Kristina Tomić from Croatia. She also competed in the Grand Prix series of 2018.^[6]

The following year, Aydin won a bronze medal at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan and a silver medal at the Extra European Championships in Bari. In both competitions, she participated in the Olympic weight class of 49 kilograms. She also competed in the 2019 World Championships in Manchester, where she finished in ninth place, as well as the 2019 European U21 Championships and two Grand Prix competitions.

In early 2021, Aydin won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Sofia.^[6] A few months later, she narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 2020 Olympics Games, losing to Israeli fighter Avishag Semberg in the semifinals of the tournament. Qualifying for the final would have meant being allowed to participate in the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

In September 2022, Ela Aydin won a bronze medal at the Paris Grand Prix - she is the first woman of the German national team to have won a medal at a Grand Prix competition.^[7]^[8]^[3] She also won a bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships in Manchester.^[6] She took part in the 2023 World Championships in Baku. She won her opening match but lost to Dunya Abutaleb from Saudi Arabia in her second match (round of 16).^[9]

In March 2024, Aydin participated in the European qualification tournament for the Summer Olympics in Paris, where she won the round of 16 against Zemfira Hasanzade (Azerbaijan) 2:0, but lost to Ilenia Matonti from Italy in the quarter-finals.^[10]^[11] She therefore did not qualify a quota place for the 49 kg weight category at the Olympic Games, as this would have required her to reach the final.^[12]^[13]^[14] In April 2024, Aydin underwent another cruciate ligament and meniscus surgery.^[4]

Personal life

In 2017, Aydin graduated from school with a General Certificate of Secondary Education. In the same year, she joined the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr (German: Sportfördergruppe der Bundeswehr) and completed her basic training by the start of 2018. She has been a Soldier-Athlete (German: Sportsoldat) ever since.^[15]

Competitive history


Year^[6]	Event	Location	G-Rank	Place
2024	Belgian Open	Lommel	G-2	9th
	Olympic Games Qualification Europe	Sofia	-	5th
	Slovenia Open	Ljubljana	G-1	3rd
	German Championships	Ochsenhausen	-	1st
2023	Grand Prix (F)	Manchester	G-10	9th
	Croatia Open	Zagreb	G-1	3rd
	Grand Prix	Taiyuan	G-6	5th
	Polish Open	Warsaw	G-1	3rd
	Grand Prix	Paris	G-6	5th
	Tallinn Open	Tallinn	G-1	1st
	European Games	Krakow	G-4	5th
	Grand Prix	Rome	G-6	5th
	World Championships	Baku	G-14	17th
	European Clubs Championships	Sofia	G-1	1st
	Belgian Open	Lommel	G-2	5th
	Dutch Open	Eindhoven	G-1	5th
	US Open	Las Vegas	G-2	3rd
	German Championships	Nuremberg	-	2nd
2022	Grand Prix (F)	Riyadh	G-10	5th
	World Championships	Guadalajara	G-14	9th
	Dutch Open	Eindhoven	G-1	1st
	Grand Prix	Paris	G-6	3rd
	Grand Prix	Manchester	G-6	17th
	Grand Prix	Rome	G-6	9th
	European Clubs Championships	Tallinn	G-2	2nd
	European Championships	Manchester	G-4	3rd
	Spanish Open	La Nucia	G-2	3rd
	Turkish Open	Antalya	G-2	1st
	Fujairah Open	Fujairah	G-2	1st
	German Championships	Weißenburg	-	1st
2021	World Women's Championships	Riyadh	G-4	5th
	French Open	Paris	G-1	3rd
	Montenegro Open	Podgorica	G-1	3rd
	Albania Open	Tirana	G-1	3rd
	WT Presidents Cup - Europe	Istanbul	G-1	2nd
	Polish Open	Warsaw	G-1	5th
	Tallinn Open	Tallinn	G-1	1st
	Beirut Open	Beirut	G-2	2nd
	Olympic Games qualification Europe	Sofia	-	4th
	Spanish Open	Alicante	G-1	3rd
	European Championships	Sofia	G-4	3rd
	German Championships	Dortmund	-	1st
2020	Sofia Open	Sofia	G-1	3rd
	German Open	Hamburg	G-2	2nd
	Helsingborg Open	Helsingborg	G-1	3rd
	WT President's Cup - Europe	Helsingborg	G-2	5th
	German Championships	Lünen	-	1st
2019	Extra European Championships	Bari	G-4	2nd
	Military World Games	Wuhan	G-2	3rd
	Grand Prix	Sofia	G-4	5th
	Grand Prix	Chiba	G-4	5th
	Austrian Open	Innsbruck	G-1	3rd
	WT Presidents Cup - Africa	Agadir	G-1	3rd
	Dutch Open	Nijmegen	G-1	3rd
	US Open	Las Vegas	G-1	3rd
	Slovenia Open	Maribor	G-1	1st
	World Championships	Manchester	G-14	5th
	European Championships (U21)	Helsingborg	G-4	5th
	German Championships	Nuremberg	-	2nd
2018	Luxembourg Open	Luxembourg	G-1	3rd
	Multi European Games	Plodiv	G-1	1st
	Austrian Open	Innsbruck	G-1	1st
	European Championships	Kazan	G-4	5th
	Grand Prix	Moscow	G-6	5th
2017	Croatia Open	Zagreb	G-4	2nd
	Serbia Open	Belgrade	G-1	3rd
	Riga Open	Riga	G-1	2nd
	Polish Open	Warsaw	G-1	1st
	Austrian Open	Innsbruck	G-1	2nd
	European Championships (U21)	Sofia	G-4	2nd
2014	German Championships	Gummersbach	-	2nd
2013	European Championships (cadets)	Bucharest	G-4	3rd

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References

↑ http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/ranking/ranking.html
↑ "Taekwondodata.com: Ela Aydin". taekwondodata.com. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
1 2 "Aydin gewinnt Bronze beim Grand Prix in Paris". sport.de (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
1 2 "Deutsche Taekwondo Union e.V.: Mitglied". dtu.de. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
↑ "Ela Aydin: "Eine stärkere und erfolgreichere Ela als davor." | Menschen". athlet.one. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
1 2 3 4 "TaekwondoData". TaekwondoData. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
↑ "[World Taekwondo] Results - Day 1". worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
↑ "Taekwondo | Olympia-Qualifikation | Damen 49kg & 57kg & Herren 58kg | World Grand Prix | Paris". International Olympic Committee . Archived from the original on 27 September 2022.
↑ "[World Taekwondo] Result_Day 3". worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
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↑ "[World Taekwondo] Paris 2024 Olympic Games Qualification System". m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
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↑ "Ela Aydin". Ela Aydin (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2022.

External links

Ela Aydin profile at World Taekwondo
Ela Aydin ranking at World Taekwondo
Ela Aydin at TaekwondoData.com
Ela Aydin at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)

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