Dejan Georgievski
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Native name | Дејан Георгиевски | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Macedonian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia | 8 May 1999||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | North Macedonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Heavyweight (+87 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dejan Georgievski (Macedonian: Дејан Георгиевски; born 8 May 1999) is a Macedonian professional taekwondo practitioner who represents North Macedonia internationally in the World Taekwondo Tournaments in the men's heavyweight (+87 kg) class.[1] He is an Olympic silver medalist in the men's +80 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Career[]
In 2018 Georgievski won the silver medal in the men's +80 kg taekwondo competition at the XVIIIth Mediterranean Games.[2]
Besides the Mediterranean Games, he won numerous medals in international competitions including the European Olympic Qualification Tournament, the President's Cup, the Sofia Open, the Turkish Open, the Greece Open, Galeb Belgrade Trophy (Serbia Open), the Slovenia Open and more.[3][4][5]
Georgievski is currently ranked 25th in the World Taekwondo heavyweight (+87 kg) rankings and 39th in the +80 kg Olympic weight class.
2020 Summer Olympics[]
Georgievski qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's +80 kg by beating 2016 Olympic champion Radik Isayev of Azerbaijan 13-6 at the European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Sofia.[6][7][8][9] At the Olympics in Tokyo, Georgievski won reigning world champion Rafael Alba of Cuba 11-8 in the round of 16 and captured the silver medal by beating two-time Asian champion In Kyo-don of South Korea 12-6 in the semifinals.
Tournament record[]
Year | Event | Location | G-Rank | Place |
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2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo | G-20 | |
European Championships | Sofia | G-4 | 9th | |
2020 | Sofia Open | Sofia | G-1 | |
Slovenia Open | Ljubljana | G-1 | ||
2019 | WTE Multi European Games | Sofia | G-1 | |
European Clubs Championships | Thessaloniki | G-1 | ||
Turkish Open | Antalya | G-1 | ||
2018 | Serbia Open | Belgrade | G-1 | |
Greece Open | Athens | G-1 | ||
Mediterranean Games | Tarragona | G-1 | ||
WTE Multi European Games | Plovdiv | G-1 | ||
Sofia Open | Sofia | G-1 | ||
Turkish Open | Istanbul | G-1 | ||
2017 | European Olympic Weight Category Championships | Sofia | G-1 | |
Sofia Open | Sofia | G-1 |
References[]
- ^ "Taekwondo - Dejan Georgievski". Athletes Information.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "ATHLETE PROFILE". Tarragona 2018 Information.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Tournaments Record". World Taekwondo.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Athlete Information". Taekwondo Data.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Conversation with the Macedonian national taekwondo representative Dejan Georgievski before the European Championship: I am going for gold in Sofia". European Championship Information.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Interview of Day 2 for European Qualification Tournament for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". European Qualification Tournament.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Interview with Dejan Georgievski, taekwondo fighter who will participate in the Tokyo Olympics: My dream is to bring an Olympic gold medal in Macedonia". Slobodenpecat.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Taekwondo: Nine Mediterranean countries claiming Olympic spots at Tokyo 2020". CIJM.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Double delight for France as 16 qualify for Tokyo 2020 at European taekwondo qualifier". Olympic 2020.
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External links[]
- Dejan Georgievski at TaekwondoData.com
- Dejan Georgievski at Olympedia
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Skopje
- 1999 births
- Macedonian male taekwondo practitioners
- North Macedonia people
- Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in taekwondo
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for North Macedonia
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in taekwondo
- Macedonian sportspeople stubs
- Taekwondo biography stubs
- European Olympic medalist stubs