Gergely Salim
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| Olympic medal record | |||
Competitor for  Denmark |
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| Men's taekwondo | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1991 Athens | finweight | |
| Silver | 1993 New York | finweight | |
| Bronze | 1995 Manila | flyweight | |
Gergely Salim is a Danish taekwondo practitioner.
He started taekwondo at the age of 9. He trained with his brother Josef Salim at Gladsaxe Taekwondo Klub near Copenhagen. In 1991, Gergely Salim won a gold medal in the finweight division at the World Taekwondo Championships in Athens. Next year, he participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Sydney and claimed a gold medal (taekwondo at the 1992 Olympics was held as a demonstration sport). He also won three consecutive European Championships from 1990-1994.
His older brother, Josef Salim, is also a 3-time European Champion and a World Championship medalist (silver in 1991).
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