Jack Marton (born 7 July 1992) is an Australian

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. T ...

practitioner. He won the gold medal in the men's 74 kg event at the

2015 Pacific Games The 2015 Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby. More tha ...

held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. He repeated this in 2019 with the gold medal in the men's 80 kg event at the

2019 Pacific Games The 2019 Pacific Games was the sixteenth edition of the Pacific Games. The Games were held in Apia, Samoa, returning there for the first time since 2007. It was the third time overall that the Pacific Games were held in Samoa. The event was init ...

held in Apia, Samoa.

Career

In 2013, he competed in the men's lightweight event at the

2013 World Taekwondo Championships The 2013 World Taekwondo Championships was the 21st edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and was held in Puebla, Mexico from July 15 to July 21, 2013. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Team ranking Men Women Part ...

held in Puebla, Mexico and in 2015, he competed in the men's lightweight event at the

2015 World Taekwondo Championships The 2015 World Taekwondo Championships were the 22nd edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Chelyabinsk, Russia from May 12 to May 18, 2015. The decision to award the games to Russia was made in 2013 as they out-voted bo ...

held in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He qualified to represent Australia 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 ...

in Tokyo, Japan after winning the men's 80 kg event at the

2020 Oceania Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament The 2020 Oceania Taekwondo Qualification Tournament for Tokyo Olympic Games took place in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mai ...

held in Gold Coast, Australia. In the final, he defeated Alexander Allen of Guam. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's 80 kg event where he was eliminated in his first match by eventual bronze medalist

Seif Eissa Seif Eissa (Arabic: سيف عيسى; born 15 June 1998) is an Egyptian Taekwondo practitioner & a Bronze medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. He also earned a gold medal a ...

of Egypt.

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* Living people 1992 births Place of birth missing (living people) Australian male taekwondo practitioners Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Australia 21st-century Australian people {{Taekwondo-bio-stub