Lucija Zaninović (born 26 June 1987, in Split) is a

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n taekwondo practitioner. She is the twin sister of taekwondo practitioner

Ana Zaninović Ana Zaninović (born 26 June 1987, in Split) is a Croatian taekwondo practitioner. She is the twin sister of taekwondo practitioner Lucija Zaninović. At the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships in Beijing, Zaninović won the silver medal in the w ...

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Zaninović won the gold medal in the women's flyweight class at the

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held in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Zaninović qualified for the

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after winning the silver medal in the women's 49 kg class at the

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held in

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. She withdrew in the final match against Olympic champion

Wu Jingyu Wu Jingyu (; born February 1, 1987) is a female Chinese Taekwondo practitioner who won gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the –49 kg class. She also won several medals at world championships and Asian Games. Biography W ...

and was the only European to qualify through the Qualification Tournament. In 2012, she defended the European title in the women's flyweight class after defeating Kristina Kim at the

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held in

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. At the

, she defeated

Seulki Kang Catherine Seulki Kang (born 25 September 1987) is a South Korean-born naturalized Central African taekwondo practitioner. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 49 kg event. On 8 August, she was defeated in the preliminary rou ...

and Carola Malvina López before losing to Wu Jingyu in the semi-finals. She won the bronze medal after defeating

Jannet Alegría Jannet Alegría Peña (born August 30, 1987, in San Juan del Río, Mexico) is Mexican taekwondo practitioner. In 2011, she participated at the 2011 Pan American Games where she won the bronze medal at the -49 kg category. Later in 2012 she ...

in the sudden death round of the bronze medal match. This was the third medal for

Croatia at the Olympics Croatia competed at the Olympic Games for the first time as an independent nation in 1992, and has participated in every Games since then. The National Olympic Committee for Croatia is the Croatian Olympic Committee, which was created in 1991 and ...

in taekwondo, after Martina Zubčić and Sandra Šarić who also won the bronze four years before in

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