Cha Dong-min

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Cha Dong-min

Personal information

Nationality

South Korean

Born

August 24, 1986 (age 38)

Education

Korea National Sport University

Height

188 cm (6 ft 2 in)^[1]

Weight

90 kg (198 lb)^[1]

Website

kajunight^{[permanent dead link‍]}

Medal record

Representing South Korea

Men's taekwondo
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	+80 kg
	2016 Rio De Janeiro	+80 kg
World Championships
	2011 Gyeongju	Middleweight
Asian Championships
	2012 Ho Chi Minh City	Heavyweight
East Asian Games
	2009 Hong Kong	Heavyweight

Korean name

차동민

車東旻

Cha Dong-min

Ch'a Tong-min

Cha Dong-min (Korean: 차동민; Korean pronunciation: [tɕʰa.doŋ.min]; born August 24, 1986) is a retired South Korean taekwondo practitioner.

Sports career

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He was born in Seoul, South Korea.^{[citation needed]}

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

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^ ^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

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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)

v t e Olympic Champions in Taekwondo — Men's Heavyweight (+80 kg)
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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