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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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Zhang Mengyu is a Chinese taekwondo athlete. She won the bronze medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships on the women's welterweight category.
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Sim Jae-young is a South Korean taekwondo athlete. She is the double world champion of the finweight category as she won the championship in 2017 and 2019.
The 2021 European Taekwondo Championships, the 24th edition of the European Taekwondo Championships, was held in Sofia, Bulgaria at the Grand Hotel Millennium Sofia from 8 to 11 April 2021.
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- ↑ "2017 Muju WTF World Taekwondo Championships". www.2017worldtaekwondo.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-18.
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