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Gergely Salim (born April 1, 1972 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania) [1] is a Hungarian-Danish taekwondo practitioner, but lives now in Los Angeles as an American citizen.
He started practicing taekwondo at the age of 8 with his oldet brother, Joseph Salim, at Gladsaxe Taekwondo Klub near Copenhagen.
In 1991, Gergely Salim won a gold medal in the finweight division at the World Taekwondo Championships in Athens. Next year, at the age of 20, he participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and won first place. [2] He also won three consecutive European Championships from 1990 to 1994 for the Danish national team. [3]
Joseph also pursued a great career in the sport as he also was a 3-time european champion and runner-up at the 1991 world championship.
Salim was born in Tanzania to a Tanzanian father and Hungarian mother. He moved to Denmark at a young age. [4] In 2021, Salim's youngest son, Omar Salim, won the gold medal at the 2021 European Taekwondo Championships representing Hungary. [5]
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