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| Born | 11 March 2004 (age 21) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Henrique Marques Rodrigues Fernandes (born 11 March 2004) is a Brazilian taekwondo practitioner. He won the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in the men's welterweight division, and competed for Brazil at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
He was a flag bearer for Brazil at the Youth South American Games in Rosario, Argentina, in April 2022. [3] He won the gold medal at the event in the -80kg division. [4] He won a bronze medal at the 2022 Pan American Taekwondo Championship. [5]
He qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games at the 2024 Pan American Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in San Domingo, Dominican Republic in April 2024. [6]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris he competed in the 80kg category, reaching the quarter finals. [7] [8]
On October 27, 2025 he won the Gold Medal at the Wuxi 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in the M-80kg category, becoming the first Brazilian male taekwondo world champion. In his path to the title he defeated CJ Nickolas in the quarter-finals, and Artem Mytarev in the semi-finals, before beating Xiang Qizhang of China in the final. [9] [10]
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