José Jesús Márquez Sánchez is a Spanish Taekwondo athlete. He is a two-time

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) and five-time straight national welterweight champion (from 1994 to 1998). At the 1995 World Championships in

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, Márquez won the welterweight (−76 kg) gold medal by defeating Jean Lopez, the eldest Lopez sibling, in the final.

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Spanish male taekwondo practitioners Living people Year of birth missing (living people) European Taekwondo Championships medalists World Taekwondo Championships medalists 20th-century Spanish people {{Spain-taekwondo-bio-stub