Cha Dong-min
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Personal information | |
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Nationality | South Korean |
Born | (1986-08-24) August 24, 1986 (age 37) |
Education | Korea National Sport University |
Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1] |
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb)[1] |
Website | kajunight[permanent dead link] |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 차동민 |
Hanja | 車東旻 |
Revised Romanization | Cha Dong-min |
McCune–Reischauer | Ch'a Tong-min |
Cha Dong-min (Korean: 차동민; Hanja: 車東旻; Korean pronunciation: [tɕʰa.doŋ.min]; born August 24, 1986, in Seoul, South Korea) is a retired South Korean taekwondo practitioner.
Sports career
In 2008, he won the gold medal in the +80 kg category at the Beijing Olympic Games.[2][3]
He participated in the 2012 London Olympic Games to defend his title as the Number 1 seed in the 80 kg division, but was eliminated in the Quarterfinal round against Bahri Tanrıkulu of Turkey.[4]
He competed for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the same division where he won a bronze medal. This was his last International competition, as he announced his retirement.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b "Cha Dong-min". Rio2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
- ^ Results of taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archived May 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "FACTBOX-Olympics-Taekwondo-Gold medallist Cha Dong-min". Reuters. 2008-08-23. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
- ^ a b "Taekwondo medalist grateful for bronze at final Olympics". The Korea Herald. 2016-08-21. Archived from the original on 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
- ^ 차동민, 8년 만의 메달과 함께 은퇴 '유종의 미'(종합) (in Korean). Yonhap. 2016-08-21. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ja Dong-Min". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- Cha Dong-min at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Cha Dong-min on Cyworld (in Korean)
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- 2000:
Kim Kyong-hun (KOR)
- 2004:
Moon Dae-sung (KOR)
- 2008:
Cha Dong-min (KOR)
- 2012:
Carlo Molfetta (ITA)
- 2016:
Radik Isayev (AZE)
- 2020:
Vladislav Larin (ROC)
- 2024:
Arian Salimi (IRI)
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