Gwladys Patience Épangue (born 15 August 1983 in Clichy-la-Garenne,

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) is a French

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athlete. Representing France at the

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in Madrid, she won the silver medal in the welterweight division, losing to Hwang Kyung-Seon from

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in the final. At the

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in Beijing, she won a silver medal, losing to Hwang in the final again. Épangue represented her country in the –67 kg class at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won a bronze medal. In 2009, Épangue won her first World Championship gold medal in welterweight at the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships in

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. In Round of 32, she edged out South Korean's favorite Park Hye-Mi, who demolished

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ic champion Auður Jónsdóttir 22–1 in the first round, in overtime. In the semifinal match, Épangue beat European rival Sandra Šarić of

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, 2008 European Champion and 4-time World Championship medalist, 6–1. Épangue withdrew from the 2012 Summer Olympics because of injury was replaced by her compatriot

Anne-Caroline Graffe Anne-Caroline Graffe (born 12 February 1986 in Papeete, Tahiti in French Polynesia) is a French taekwondo athlete. Graffe took up taekwondo when she was 11 years old. She left Tahiti for metropolitan France when she was 18 years old. She won ...

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