Miguel Adrian Ferrera Rodríguez (born 25 May 1981) is a Honduran
taekwondo
''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...
practitioner. Ferrera qualified for the
men's 80 kg class at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, after placing second from the Pan American Qualification Tournament in
Cali, Colombia
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. He lost the preliminary round of sixteen match to China's
Zhu Guo
Zhu Guo (; born June 14, 1985, in Fuxin, Liaoning) is a male Chinese Taekwondo practitioner.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics Zhu won the bronze medal in the men's 80 kg category. He lost to eventual gold medalist Hadi Saei of Iran in t ...
, with a final score of 1–3. Ferrera was also the nation's flag bearer at the
opening ceremony.
In 2015 Ferrera become the first athlete from
Honduras to be inducted into the World Hall of Fame of the
International Taekwondo Federation
International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is an international taekwondo organization founded on March 22, 1966, by General Choi Hong Hi (Korean: 최홍희) in Seoul, South Korea. The ITF was founded to promote and encourage the growth of the Ko ...
(ITF). ITF also granted him a wild card entry spot at the 2016 Olympics.
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Ferrera competed for Honduras at the 2016 Summer Olympics in ]Rio de Janeiro
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in the men's 80 kg class. He was defeated by Mehdi Khodabakhshi
Mehdi Khodabakhshi ( fa, مهدی خدابخشی, sr-cyr, Махди Ходабахши; born April 21, 1991, in Tonekabon, Iran) is an Iranian-born Serbian Taekwondo practitioner. He was two times world champion, in 2014 and in 2022.
Career
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of Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
in the first round. He was the flag bearer for Honduras in the closing ceremony.
References
External links
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NBC Olympics Profile
Honduran male taekwondo practitioners
1981 births
Living people
Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Honduras
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2007 Pan American Games
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2011 Pan American Games
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2015 Pan American Games
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2019 Pan American Games
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2023 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Honduras
21st-century Honduran people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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