Tshomlee Cabanos Go (born January 13, 1981 in

Iriga Iriga, officially the City of Iriga (Rinconada Bikol: ''Syudad ka Iriga''; bcl, Siyudad nin Iriga; fil, Lungsod ng Iriga), is component city in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 11 ...

Camarines Sur Camarines Sur ( bcl, Habagatan na Camarines; tl, Timog Camarines), officially the Province of Camarines Sur, is a province in the Philippines located in the Bicol Region on Luzon. Its capital is Pili and the province borders Camarines Norte and ...

) is a

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 from the

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. He represented the country in the

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

and

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

."15 Filipinos battle odds, Olympic gold ‘curse’"
, Inquirer.net, August 9, 2008 Go and his family left the Philippines sometime in the early 2010s to migrate to

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in the United States. As of 2020, he works as a captain for a ship of the

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service and as an instructor in a gymnasium in Vallejo.

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* 1981 births Living people People from Iriga Sportspeople from Camarines Sur Filipino male taekwondo practitioners Olympic taekwondo practitioners for the Philippines Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in taekwondo Taekwondo practitioners at the 2002 Asian Games Taekwondo practitioners at the 2006 Asian Games Taekwondo practitioners at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for the Philippines Asian Games bronze medalists for the Philippines Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games SEA Games gold medalists for the Philippines SEA Games medalists in taekwondo Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games Asian Taekwondo Championships medalists Filipino expatriate sportspeople in the United States 21st-century Filipino people {{Philippines-taekwondo-bio-stub

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