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Nationality | Belgian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 20 August 1992 30) 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]
Lee Dae-Hoon is a South Korean taekwondo athlete. He won a bronze medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics and a silver in the 2012 Summer Olympics. He has achieved world first level rankings in the under 68 kg weight class.
Carmen Marton is a taekwondo athlete from Australia. She is Australia's first ever world taekwondo champion.
Belgium competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1900, Belgian athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. The Belgian team consisted of 108 athletes, 70 men and 38 women, across nineteen sports.
Cuba competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's twentieth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The Cuban team consisted of 124 athletes, 89 men and 35 women, across eighteen sports.
Dominican Republic competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's fourteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
The men's 68 kg competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 18 August, at the Carioca Arena 3.
Saúl Gutiérrez Macedo is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner.
Tijana Bogdanović is a Serbian taekwondo athlete. She considers fellow taekwondo practitioner Milica Mandić as her idol.
Zhao Shuai is a Chinese taekwondo practitioner. He won gold medals at the 2016 Olympics and 2017 World Championships, placing third earlier in 2015. He served as the flag bearer for China at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games, where he later won a silver medal.
Zeliha Ağrıs is a Turkish taekwondo practitioner who became a world champion in the bantamweight category in 2017.
Belgium competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's official debut in 1900, Belgian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.
Hakan Reçber is a Turkish taekwondo athlete. He is an Olympic bronze medalist in the Men's 68 kg competition. He won the gold medal at the 2021 European Taekwondo Championships and 2022 European Taekwondo Championships on the bantamweight (-63 kg) category.
Seydou Gbané is an Ivorian taekwondo practitioner.
Oumaima El-Bouchti is a Moroccan taekwondo practitioner. She is a silver medalist at the African Games and the Islamic Solidarity Games. She is also a two-time gold medalist at the African Taekwondo Championships. She represented Morocco at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Achraf Mahboubi is a Moroccan taekwondo practitioner. In 2021, he represented Morocco at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Dylan Chellamootoo is a French taekwondo practitioner. He won one of the bronze medals in the –63 kg event at the 2019 Summer Universiade held in Naples, Italy.
Pauline Louise Lopez is a Filipino taekwondo practitioner. She is a two-time gold medalist at the Southeast Asian Games and a bronze medalist at the Asian Games.
Cho Gang-min is a South Korean taekwondo practitioner. He won the gold medal in the men's 63 kg event at the 2018 Asian Taekwondo Championships held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In the same year, he also won one of the bronze medals in the men's 63 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Ho Chia-hsin is a Taiwanese taekwondo practitioner. In 2018, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's −63 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Ibrahim Zarman is an Indonesian taekwondo practitioner. He won the gold medal in the men's –63 kg event at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2018, he competed in the men's 63 kg event at the Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia without winning a medal. He was eliminated from the competition in his second match by Cho Gang-min of South Korea.