Lorena Brandl (born 15 May 1997) is a German
taekwondo athlete. She is the
2024 European Champion and
2022 world bronze medallist in the women's
+73 kg weight category.
Career
Junior
Brandl started practising the
Korean
martial arts
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taekwondo in 2007 and participated in her first international competition in 2013. She competed for the
German
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national team for the first time in 2014, the same year she took part in her first European Championships (U21).
In 2015, she finished first at the U21 European Championships in
Bucharest, and she won a bronze medal at the 2017 U21 European Championships in
Sofia.
Senior
Brandl competed in the
World Championships in 2015 in
Chelyabinsk,
2017
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in
Muju and
2019
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in
Manchester in the +73 kg weight category, where she remained without a medal each time. In 2016, she participated in the
European Championships
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in
Montreaux,
2018
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in
Kazan,
2021
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in
Sofia and
2022
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in
Manchester. In 2019, she was runner-up in the +67 kg weight class at the
Extra European Championships in Bari.
In 2021, she was a participant in the qualifying tournament for the
Tokyo Olympics, where she finished third in the +67 kg weight class, but did not qualify to compete in the Olympic Games. At the 2021 Women's World Championships, Brandl won a bronze medal.
Brandl won the gold medal in the +67 kg class at the
2022 Grand Prix in Manchester. She also won a bronze at the
2023 Grand Prix in Taiyuan. In 2022, she participated in the
World Championships in Guadalajara and won a bronze medal in the
+73 kg weight class.
Brandl competed at the
2023 World Championships in
Baku
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, where she lost in the +73 kg weight class in the opening fight (round of 32) to
Nika Klepac of
Croatia. In January 2024, due to her being in 8th place in the Olympic rankings, she qualified a quota place in the +67 kg weight class at the
2024 Olympic Games
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for Germany.
At the
2024 European Championships in
Belgrade
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, Brandl became European Champion after beating
Nafia Kuş
Nafia Kuş Aydın (born 20 February 1995) is a world and European champion Turkish people, Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the heavyweight division. She won the gold medal in the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's ...
from
Turkey in the finale.
On 14 May, the
German Olympic Sports Confederation nominated Brandl to participate in the
Summer Olympic Games
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in August 2024. In August, she represented Germany at the
2024 Summer Olympics
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, where she competed in the
+67 kg event and defeated
Arlettys Acosta in the round of 16. Brandl lost to
Althéa Laurin
Althéa Laurin (born 1 September 2001) is a French taekwondo athlete competing in the middleweight division. In 2021, she won the bronze medal in the women + 67 kg at the Tokyo Olympic Games and is also decorated Knight of the Nati ...
in the quarter finals, but since Laurin later advanced to the final, Brandl competed in the
repechage match. Here, she won against
Munira Abdusalomova from
Tajikistan and therefore qualified to the bronze medal contest, where she fought against
Lee Dab-in. In the bronze medal match, Brandl lost to Lee and hence took fifth place.
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Personal life
Brandl completed an
apprenticeship as a
warehouse logistics specialist. Afterwards, she joined the
Bundeswehr's sports support group (German: ''Sportfördergruppe der Bundeswehr'') in 2016 and has been a Soldier-Athlete (German: ''Sportsoldat'') ever since.
References
External links
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1997 births
Living people
German female taekwondo practitioners
World Taekwondo Championships medalists
21st-century German sportswomen
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Germany