Cha Dong-min
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Nationality | South Korean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | August 24, 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Korea National Sport University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | kajunight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Korean name | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hangul | 차동민 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanja | 車東旻 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Cha Dong-min | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Ch'a Tong-min |
Cha Dong-min (Hangul: 차동민, Hanja: 車東旻; 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
- 1 2 "Cha Dong-min". Rio2016. 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.
- 1 2 "Taekwondo medalist grateful for bronze at final Olympics". The Korea Herald. 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
- ↑ "차동민, 8년 만의 메달과 함께 은퇴 '유종의 미'(종합)" (in Korean). Yonhap. 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
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