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Full name | Nathan Cesar Sodario Torquato | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Praia Grande, Brazil | 9 January 2001||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nathan Cesar Sodario Torquato [lower-alpha 1] (born 9 January 2001) [1] is a Brazilian para taekwondo practitioner. He won the gold medal in the men's 61 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. [2] [3] In the final, his opponent Mohamed El-Zayat of Egypt was unable to compete due to injury and, as a result, Torquato was awarded the gold medal. [3]
In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's 61 kg event at the Parapan American Games held in Lima, Peru. [4]
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