Lucija Zaninović (born 26 June 1987, in

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) is a

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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. She is the twin sister of taekwondo practitioner Ana Zaninović. Hrvatski olimpijci Lucija Zaninovic Zracna luka Zagreb 13 082012 roberta f

Hrvatski olimpijci Lucija Zaninovic Zracna luka Zagreb 13 082012 roberta f

Zaninović won the gold medal in the women's flyweight class at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships held in

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. Zaninović qualified for the

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after winning the silver medal in the women's 49 kg class at the 2011 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament held in

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. She withdrew in the final match against Olympic champion Wu Jingyu and was the only European to qualify through the Qualification Tournament. In 2012, she defended the European title in the women's flyweight class after defeating Kristina Kim at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships held in

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. At the

, she defeated Seulki Kang and Carola Malvina López before losing to Wu Jingyu in the semi-finals. She won the bronze medal after defeating Jannet Alegría in the sudden death round of the bronze medal match. This was the third medal for Croatia at the Olympics in taekwondo, after Martina Zubčić and Sandra Šarić who also won the bronze four years before in

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* 1987 births Sportspeople from Split, Croatia Croatian female taekwondo practitioners Olympic medalists for Croatia in taekwondo Taekwondo practitioners at the 2012 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Croatia Living people Croatian twins Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in taekwondo European Games bronze medalists for Croatia Summer World University Games medalists in taekwondo FISU World University Games silver medalists for Croatia World Taekwondo Championships medalists European Taekwondo Championships medalists Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade 21st-century Croatian sportswomen {{Croatia-taekwondo-bio-stub

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