Belén Asensio (born December 21, 1976) is a female taekwondo practitioner from

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. She won the gold medal in the finweight (-47 kg) class at the

1999 World Taekwondo Championships The 1999 World Taekwondo Championships were the 14th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Butterdome, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada from June 2 to June 6, 1999, with 550 athletes participating from 66 countri ...

in Edmonton, Alberta,

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. Asensio won the gold medal again in finweight at the

2005 World Taekwondo Championships The 2005 World Taekwondo Championships were the 17th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Madrid, Spain from 13 to 17 April 2005. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Team ranking South Korea won both men’s and ...

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, defeating Sümeyye Gülec of

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4-2 in the semifinal and You Eun-Young of

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4-1 in the final. She is also a two-time European Champion in 2000 and 2006. However, she has not qualified for any of the past three Olympics (2000, 2004 and 2008), losing her spot for the 2004 and 2008 Olympics to Spanish rival

Brigitte Yagüe Brigitte Yagüe Enrique (born 15 March 1981 in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain) is a taekwondo practitioner from Spain. In 2004, Yagüe qualified for the Athens Olympics, winning over rival Belen Asensio in the –49&n ...

at the Spanish Olympic trials.

References

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* 1976 births Spanish female taekwondo practitioners Living people World Taekwondo Championships medalists European Taekwondo Championships medalists 20th-century Spanish women 21st-century Spanish women {{Spain-taekwondo-bio-stub