Milena Titoneli Guimarães (born 6 August 1998) is a Brazilian

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 ...

fighter. She won the gold medal in the women's 67kg event at the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games or Lima 2019 ( qu, Limaq 2019), were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Spo ...

in Lima, Peru and the

2021 Pan American Taekwondo Championships The 2021 Pan American Taekwondo Championships, the 21st edition of the Pan American Taekwondo Championships, was held in Cancún, Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion ...

in Cancún, Mexico. She is also a two-time bronze medalist in this event at the

World Taekwondo Championships The World Taekwondo Championship is held every two years by World Taekwondo. Competitions 1 Wuxi, China, was originally selected to host the 2021 World Taekwondo Championships. Due to the impact of the Global COVID-19 pandemic, Wuxi gave up ...

(2019 and 2022).

Career

Titoneli started fighting competitively in 2012, and two years later was in the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

. She won a bronze medal in

welterweight Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the ...

at the

2019 World Taekwondo Championships The 2019 World Taekwondo Championships was the 24th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships and was held at the Manchester Arena, in Manchester, Great Britain from 15 to 19 May 2019. This was the first time the UK has held the event. Medal ...

, after being defeated by

Nur Tatar Nur Tatar Askari (born August 16, 1992 in Van, Turkey) is a world and European champion Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the feather, light and welterweight divisions. She is of Kurdish descent. She was a member of the TSE Sport ...

in the semifinal. She won a gold medal at the 2021

Pan American Taekwondo Championships Pan American Taekwondo Championships or simply Pan Am Taekwondo Championships are the American taekwondo senior championships, first held in 1978 in Mexico City. The event is held every two years by the Pan American Taekwondo Union and it's consi ...

. Through the Pan American qualifier, Titoneli earned a spot to represent Brazil 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 ...

. Titoneli won her first match against

Julyana Al-Sadeq Julyana Al-Sadeq ( ar, جوليانا الصادق; born 9 December 1994) is a Jordanian taekwondo athlete. She won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games The 2018 Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018 or ''Asian Games 2018''), officia ...

, and then lost the quarterfinals to eventual gold medalist

Matea Jelić Matea Jelić (born 23 December 1997) is a Croatian 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- ...

. Jelić's semifinal win sent Titoneli to the repechage, where after beating

Lauren Lee Lauren Anna Lee (born 12 February 2004) is an American-born female taekwondo practitioner who has competed for Haiti. Career A native of Maple Grove, Minnesota, Lee is the granddaughter of Grandmaster Byung Yul Lee, who helped bring the sport to ...

, she reached the bronze dispute against Ivorian fighter

Ruth Gbagbi Ruth Marie Christelle Gbagbi (born 7 February 1994 in Abidjan) is an Ivorian taekwondo practitioner. She competed in the 67 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics; she was defeated by Hwang Kyung-Seon in the preliminary round and eliminated by H ...

, bronze medalist at the Rio 2016 Games. In spite of a balanced fight for most of the match, Titoneli lost and finished in 4th place. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's welterweight event at the

2022 World Taekwondo Championships The 2022 World Taekwondo Championships was the 25th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships and was held at the Centro Acuático CODE Metropolitano, in Guadalajara, Mexico from 13 to 20 November 2022. It was at first scheduled to be held i ...

held in

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, Mexico.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Titoneli, Milena 1998 births Living people Brazilian female taekwondo practitioners Pan American Games medalists in taekwondo Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Taekwondo practitioners at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Taekwondo Championships medalists World Taekwondo Championships medalists Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics People from São Caetano do Sul Sportspeople from São Paulo (state) Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Brazil Competitors at the 2022 South American Games South American Games gold medalists for Brazil South American Games medalists in taekwondo 21st-century Brazilian women