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Mauro Sarmiento

Mauro Sarmiento

Italian taekwondo practitioner

Mauro Sarmiento (born August 10, 1983) is an Italian martial artist. He was born in Casoria, Italy, and represented Italy in Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 80 kg, and won the silver medal, upsetting two-time Olympic champion Steven López of the United States in the quarterfinals.[1] In the gold medal round he lost to Hadi Saei.[2]

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At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the men's -80 kg taekwondo event, losing to Nicolas Garcia in the semi-finals, and then beating Nesar Ahmad Bahawi in his bronze medal match.[3]

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    Houston Chronicle
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    "68 - 80 kg men results - Taekwondo - London 2012 Olympics". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 2015-06-03.


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