Anne-Caroline Graffe
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Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Papeete, Tahiti in French Polynesia | 12 February 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) /5'9" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anne-Caroline Graffe (born 12 February 1986 in Papeete, Tahiti in French Polynesia) is a French taekwondo athlete.[1]
Graffe took up taekwondo when she was 11 years old. She left Tahiti for metropolitan France when she was 18 years old.[2]
She won the women's heavyweight title at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships, held in Gyeongju, South Korea, defeating South Korean An Sae-Bom 1–0 in the final.[3]
She won the gold medal at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships.
Graffe, who had been training under Myriam Baverel at the Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP) for five years, had only been entered for the competition a month before the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics following the withdrawal due to injury of Gwladys Épangue. She was the first Polynesian to represent France at the Olympic Games. In her first Olympic competition, she was seeded number one. She cruised through the early rounds to reach the final, where she met Serbia's Milica Mandić. After a tight opening two rounds, Mandić opened up in the third and picked off Graffe with rapid kicks to the body and ran out a 9-7 winner.[4]
References[]
- ^ London Olympics 2012 Anne-Caroline Graffe
- ^ "Graffe se contentera de l'argent". Eurosport. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
- ^ Profile at taekowndodata.com
- ^ "Taekwondo: Serbia's Mandic wins women's heavyweight gold". Reuters. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
External links[]
- Anne-Caroline Graffe at the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (in French)
- Anne-Caroline Graffe at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Anne-Caroline Graffe at TaekwondoData.com
- Anne-Caroline Graffe at the French Olympic Committee (in French)
- Anne-Caroline Graffe at Olympedia
- 1986 births
- French female taekwondo practitioners
- Living people
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners of France
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in taekwondo
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Knights of the National Order of Merit (France)
- Universiade medalists in taekwondo
- Universiade bronze medalists for France
- European Taekwondo Championships medalists
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
- French martial arts biography stubs
- European taekwondo biography stubs