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Nationality | Belgian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 20 August 1992 32) Tangier, Morocco | (age|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jaouad Achab (born 20 August 1992) is a taekwondo practitioner from Belgium. He won the gold medal at the 2014 European Championships Men's 63 kg, [1] and at the 2015 World Championships, [2] becoming Belgium's first World Taekwondo champion.
In 2019, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's bantamweight event at the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, United Kingdom. [3]
Achab may refer to:
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