Ángel Román Martínez (born July 11, 1984) is a Puerto Rican

taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

practitioner and mathematician who is a Postdoctoral Lecturer at

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. Roman represented

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at the

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

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, where he competed for the men's 80 kg class. He lost the first preliminary match to Canada's

Sébastien Michaud Sébastien Michaud (born May 7, 1987) started in taekwondo at the age of five, following in his father's and brothers footsteps. Born in Joliette, Quebec, he currently resides in Quebec City, Quebec where he studies software engineering Soft ...

, with a sudden death score of 1–2.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
Puerto Rican male taekwondo practitioners 1984 births Living people Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Puerto Rico Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics 21st-century Puerto Rican people Washington University in St. Louis fellows 21st-century American sportsmen Taekwondo practitioners at the 2007 Pan American Games {{PuertoRico-taekwondo-bio-stub