José Jesús Márquez Sánchez is a Spanish

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 ...

athlete. He is a two-time

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and

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) and five-time straight national welterweight champion (from 1994 to 1998). At the 1995 World Championships in

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, Márquez won the welterweight (−76 kg) gold medal by defeating Jean Lopez, the eldest Lopez sibling, in the final.

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