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| Born | Timothy Stephens 1962 (age 58–59) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Style | Karate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Timothy Stephens is an English karateka. He is the winner of multiple European Karate Championships and World Karate Championships Karate medals. [1] In 2012 he was convicted of possession of child pornography. [2] [3]
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Peter "The Hurricane" Smit was a Dutch martial artist who mastered such different fight disciplines as kyokushin karate, kickboxing and Muay Thai.
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Antonio José Díaz Fernández is a Venezuelan karateka. He is best known for winning gold medals in kata at the World Championships in Serbia (2010) and France (2012), winning of the World Games in Cali, Colombia (2013), and Duisburg, Germany (2015), and a silver medal in the World Championships in Japan 2008. He won bronze medals at the WKF World Championships in karate in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2014, and 2016 in the men's individual kata. He has also won 23 Pan American Karate Federation Senior Championships Medals 23 times to date.
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