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Gwladys Patience Épangue (born 15 August 1983 in Clichy-la-Garenne, France) is a French taekwondo athlete. Representing France at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships in Madrid, she won the silver medal in the welterweight division, losing to Hwang Kyung-Seon from South Korea in the final. At the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships in Beijing, she won a silver medal, losing to Hwang in the final again.
 Gwladys Épangue in 2012 | ||
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  France
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| Women's taekwondo | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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2008 Beijing | –67 kg |
| World Championships | ||
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2009 Copenhagen | Welterweight |
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2011 Gyeongju | Middleweight |
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2005 Madrid | Welterweight |
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2007 Beijing | Welterweight |
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2015 Chelyabinsk | Heavyweight |
| European Championships | ||
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2002 Samsun | –55kg |
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2004 Lillehammer | –59kg |
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2005 Riga | –67kg |
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2000 Patras | –55kg |
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2006 Bonn | –67kg |
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2008 Rome | –67kg |
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2010 Saint Petersburg | –73kg |
| European Games | ||
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2015 Baku | +67 kg |
| Summer Universiade | ||
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2009 Belgrade | -72 kg |
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2003 Daegu | +67 kg |
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2005 Izmir | +67 kg |
Épangue represented her country in the –67 kg class at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won a bronze medal.
In 2009, Épangue won her first World Championship gold medal in welterweight at the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. In Round of 32, she edged out South Korean's favorite Park Hye-Mi, who demolished Icelandic champion Auður Jónsdóttir 22–1 in the first round, in overtime. In the semifinal match, Épangue beat European rival Sandra Šarić of Croatia, 2008 European Champion and 4-time World Championship medalist, 6–1.
Épangue withdrew from the 2012 Summer Olympics because of injury was replaced by her compatriot Anne-Caroline Graffe.[1]
References
edit- ^ "Graffe se contentera de l'argent". Eurosport. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
External links
edit- Athlete Biography at beijing2008
- Gwladys Épangue at TaekwondoData.com
- Gwladys Épangue at Olympics.com
- Gwladys Épangue at Olympedia
- Gwladys Épangue at the French Olympic and Sports Committee (archived) (in French)
- Gwladys Épangue at Team France (in French)
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