Pauline Louise Lopez (born 17 August 1996) is a Filipino

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 ...

practitioner. She is a two-time gold medalist at the

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and a bronze medalist at the

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Career

Lopez competed in the women's 46kg event at the

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held in Guangzhou, China. She was eliminated in her second match by Dana Haidar of Jordan. The following year, she competed in the women's finweight event at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships held in Gyeongju, South Korea where she was eliminated in her first match. In 2013, Lopez competed in the women's bantamweight event at the 2013 World Taekwondo Championships held in Puebla, Mexico. She won her first match against

Yeny Contreras Yeny Contreras Loyola (born August 2, 1979) is a Chilean taekwondo practitioner. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international m ...

of Chile and also her next match against

Ivett Gonda Ivett Gonda (born April 28, 1986 in Jászberény, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born Canadian retired taekwondo competitor. She moved to Canada when she was four. From 1995 to mid 2013 Gonda competed professionally for Canada until she decided to compe ...

of Hungary but she was then eliminated from the competition by Janike Lai of Norway. A month later, she won the gold medal in the girls' 55 kg event at the 2013 Asian Youth Games held in Nanjing, China. In the final she defeated Fariza Aldangorova of Kazakhstan. In the women's 57kg event at the

2014 Asian Games The 2014 Asian Games ( ko, 2014년 아시아 경기대회/2014년 아시안 게임, Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 17th Asian Games ( ko, 제17회 아시아 경기대회/제17회 ...

held in Incheon, South Korea she was eliminated in her first match by Wang Yun of China. In 2015, Lopez competed in the women's bantamweight event at the

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held in Chelyabinsk, Russia where she was eliminated in her second match by Indra Craen of Belgium. In 2016, Lopez failed to qualify for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

after losing her match against

Phannapa Harnsujin Phannapa Harnsujin ( th, พรรณนภา หาญสุจินต์; born 14 September 1997) is a Thai taekwondo practitioner. She won a gold and a silver medal at the Southeast Asian Games in 2013 and 2015, respectively, and competed ...

of Thailand at the 2016 Asian Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament held at the Marriot Convention Center Grand Ballroom in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. A few days later, she did win the gold medal in the women's 57kg event at the 2016 Asian Taekwondo Championships held in the same location. Lopez won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57kg event at the

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held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's 57kg event at the

held in the Philippines. In 2021, Lopez competed at the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Amman, Jordan hoping to qualify for the

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in Tokyo, Japan. She won her first match and she was then eliminated in her second match by Laetitia Aoun of Lebanon.

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