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| Nationality | Taiwanese | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 September 1976 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||
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Lai Hsiu-wen (born 21 September 1976) is a Taiwanese taekwondo practitioner. She won a bronze medal in featherweight at the 1997 World Taekwondo Championships in Hong Kong, after being defeated by Jung Jae-eun in the semi-final. She also competed at the 1995 World Taekwondo Championships. [1]
Steven López is an American taekwondo competitor, a 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medalist and a 2008 Olympic bronze medalist and 4th Dan in taekwondo. In 2001, he won the Lightweight Taekwondo World Championship, and in 2003 he won the Welterweight Taekwondo World Championship which he has since won in 2005, 2007 and 2009 making him the first Taekwondo fighter to win 5 World Championships. With 2 Olympic titles, 5 titles in taekwondo world championships and 1 title in taekwondo world cup he is the most titled champion after Hadi Saei who earns 9 world class titles.
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Bianca Cook, also known as Bianca Walkden, is an English taekwondo athlete and Olympian. She is three-times a World champion, twice World Grand Prix champion, four-times a European champion and a double Olympic medallist.
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