Dina Pouryounes
 Pouryounes at the 2018 European Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Native name | دینا پوریونس | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 1992[citation needed] Langarud, Iran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi (Persian: دینا پوریونس لنگرودی; born 1 January 1992) is a taekwondo athlete from Iran, who lives in the Netherlands and completes for the IOC Refugee Team. She participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Pouryounes competed in her first major international event as a senior at the Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012, where she claimed a bronze medal in the women's 46 kg competition.[3] She was a member of the Iranian national team for eight years. Since moving to the Netherlands, she competes for the latter as well as the refugee team under the IOC team flag.[1]
Pouryounes left Iran for the Netherlands in 2015.[4] In September 2015, she won her first international world ranking medal at the Polish Open while she was still living in an asylum centre. She then became the first refugee athlete to compete at the World Taekwondo Championships.[4]
She was included as one of 29 members of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]
Pouryounes has won 50 world ranking medals and has almost always been ranked top 5 of her category in the World Rankings. Her latest medal is a bronze in the women's 46 kg competition at the 2024 Fujairah Open, held in the United Arab Emirates.
She was selected for the IOC Refugee Team for the Paris Games.[6] She was defeated by eventual silver medalist Guo Qing of China.[7] She became 7th at the Paris Olympic Games and got an Olympic diploma.
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Dina POURYOUNES LANGEROUDI". olympics.com. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ Brodsky, Samantha (2021-06-29). "Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi, Taekwondo". POPSUGAR Fitness UK. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ "TaekwondoData". TaekwondoData. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ a b "Meet Dina Pouryounes: The IOC Refugee Athlete taking taekwondo by storm". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Dina Pouryounes makes Olympic debut in taekwondo for Refugee Team at Tokyo 2020". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ Khalatyan, Rafael (21 July 2024). "Refugee Taekwondo Athlete Dina Pouryounes on being her best at Paris 2024".
- ^ Hincks, Michael (7 August 2024). "REFUGEE ATHLETE DINA POURYOUNES LANGEROUDI EDGED OUT BY GUO QING IN WOMEN'S -49KG TAEKWONDO EVENT AT PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS". Olympics.com. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
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