Vanja Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Вања Станковић; born 24 March 1998) is a Serbian taekwondo practitioner.[1] She won a gold medal in the women's flyweight event at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships.[2]
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| Born | 24 March 1998 (age 26) Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Serbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Flyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Taekwondo Club Galeb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Born in Belgrade[3] and a member of TK Galeb, she also won gold medals at the European U21 Taekwondo Championships in Bulgaria and the Belgian Open in the months preceding her win at the world championships.[4] In 2019, she won the US Open G2 category event in Las Vegas.[5]
Stanković won a bronze medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and also competed in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.[6] She won her first match and was then eliminated by eventual gold medalist Merve Dinçel of Turkey.[6]
References edit
- ^ "Vanja Stanković profile". taekwondodata.com. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ^ "Vanja Stanković je svetska prvakinja u taekvondu!". www.rts.rs (in Serbian). 26 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ^ "Vanja Stanković - Olimpijski komitet Srbije". oks.org.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "Vanja Stanković: Journey of Self Belief". Inside the Games. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ "Tekvondistkinja Vanja Stanković najbolja na turniru u Las Vegasu". 021.rs (in Serbian). 3 March 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Taekwondo Results Book" (PDF). 2022 Mediterranean Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.