Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi (born 1 January 1992) is a

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

athlete from

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, who competes for the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

. She participated in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Career

Pouryounes competed in her first major international event as a senior at the

Asian Championships An Asian Championship is a top level international sports competition between Asian athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. List of Championships (Summer Olympic Sports) ;Aquatics * Asia ...

in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012, where she claimed a bronze medal in the women's 46 kg competition. She was a member of the Iranian national team for eight years. Since moving to the

, she competes for the latter as well as the refugee team under the

IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

team flag. Pouryounes left Iran for the Netherlands in 2015. In September 2015, she won an international medal at the Polish Open while she was still living in an asylum centre. She then became the first refugee athlete to compete at the

World Taekwondo Championships The World Taekwondo Championship is held every two years by World Taekwondo. Competitions 1 Wuxi, China, was originally selected to host the 2021 World Taekwondo Championships. Due to the impact of the Global COVID-19 pandemic, Wuxi gave u ...

. She was included as one of 29 members of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team to compete at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

. Pouryounes latest medal is a bronze in the women's 46 kg competition at the 2023 WT Presidents Cup - Pan Am, held in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

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1992 births Living people Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics Iranian female taekwondo practitioners Iranian refugees Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Iranian women Place of birth missing (living people) Taekwondo practitioners at the 2023 European Games {{Iran-taekwondo-bio-stub