Óscar Muñoz (filmmaking)
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Óscar Luis Muñoz Oviedo (born 9 May 1993) is a Colombian
taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...
practitioner who won a bronze medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
in the -58 kg weight class. This was the fifth Olympic medal for Colombia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the first medal in this sport. At the
2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...
he was eliminated in the first bout. Muñoz took up taekwondo aged 12. In March 2016 he started working as a taekwondo coach.


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1993 births Living people Colombian male taekwondo practitioners Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Colombia Taekwondo practitioners at the 2012 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Colombia Olympic medalists in taekwondo Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Magdalena Department 21st-century Colombian sportsmen Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in taekwondo Bolivarian Games gold medalists for Colombia Bolivarian Games medalists in taekwondo Taekwondo practitioners at the 2011 Pan American Games {{Colombia-taekwondo-bio-stub