Dina Pouryounes
Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi (born 1 January 1992) is a Taekwondo athlete from Iran.
She left Iran for The Netherlands in 2015. In September 2015 she won her first international medal at the Polish Open while she was still living in an asylum centre. In 2017, she won the Turkish Open and World Taekwondo started supporting Pouryounes in late 2017. She then became the first refugee athlete to compete in a World Taekwondo Championships. She defended her Turkish Open title in 2018, before taking out the Dutch Open title and winning silver in the European Senior Championships in Kazan. She also won another Dutch Open in 2019, and three silver medals at world ranking tournaments in 2020.[1]
She was included as one of 29 members of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team to compete at the Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 49 kg.[2]
References[]
- ^ "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. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Iranian female taekwondo practitioners
- Iranian refugees
- Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Iranian martial arts biography stubs
- Asian taekwondo biography stubs