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Adriana Cerezo

Adriana Cerezo

Spanish taekwondo practitioner

Adriana Cerezo Iglesias[lower-alpha 1] (born 24 November 2003) is a Spanish taekwondo athlete who won the silver medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan/[1][2]

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Career

She won the gold medal in her debut at the European Taekwondo Championships, at only 17 years old.[3][4] A month later, she qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics through the 2021 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament, where she ended up in second place, earning a silver medal.

She won the silver medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.[5] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's flyweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cerezo and the second or maternal family name is Iglesias.

References

  1. [1]
    "Adriana Cerezo". www.hankuk.es. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  2. [2]
    Kim, Chang-ran (24 July 2021). "Taekwondo-Teenagers cause upsets, Thai flyweight queen nabs gold". Reuters. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
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    "Adriana Cerezo, campeona de Europa con sólo 17 años; Adrián Vicente, plata en Bulgaria". MARCA (in Spanish). 8 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
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    "Adriana Cerezo, campeona de Europa con 17 años". AS.com (in Spanish). 8 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
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    "Taekwondo Results Book" (PDF). 2022 Mediterranean Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
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    Burke, Patrick (31 May 2023). "Dramatic final makes Dinçel one of three winners at World Taekwondo Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 31 May 2023.


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