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| Birth name | Emilio Azofra Iglesias | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 August 1958 Madrid, Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||
| Country | Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Men's finweight | ||||||||||||||||
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Emilio Azofra Iglesias [lower-alpha 1] (born 6 August 1958) is a Spanish taekwondo practitioner. He competed in the men's finweight at the 1988 Summer Olympics. [1]
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