Medal record | ||
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Carmen Marton |
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Competitor for Australia | ||
Women's Taekwondo | ||
World Championships | ||
Bronze | 2005 Madrid | Lightweight |
|- align=center bgcolor=white |bgcolor=silver| Silver || {{{1}}} || {{{2}}}2001 Junior Asian Championships Taiwan
|- align=center bgcolor=white |bgcolor=silver| Silver || {{{1}}} || {{{2}}}2002 World Cup Championships Tokyo Japan
|- align=center bgcolor=white |bgcolor=silver| Silver || {{{1}}} || {{{2}}}2003 Junior Asian Championships Vietnam
|- align=center bgcolor=white |bgcolor="#cc9966"| Bronze || {{{1}}} || {{{2}}}2004 Asian Championships Seoul Korea
|- align=center bgcolor=white |bgcolor="#cc9966"| Bronze || {{{1}}} || {{{2}}}2007 Olympic Test Event Beijing China
|- align=center bgcolor=white |bgcolor="#cc9966"| Bronze || {{{1}}} || {{{2}}}2011 Universiade Games Shenzhen Korea
Carmen Marton (born 20 June 1986[1])is a taekwondo athlete from Australia. As a junior, Carmen achieved a number of international benchmark results. She won silver at both the 2001 and 2003 Junior Asian Championships. At the age of 15 she secured a spot on her first senior National Team competing at the 2001 World Championships in JeJu Korea. In 2002, at the age of 16 she won a silver medal at the World Cup in Toykyo, Japan in the <59 kg category. In 2004 she won a bronze at the Asian Championships Seoul Korea in the <63 kg category. Missing out on the 2004 Athens Olympics, she backed her disappointment with a bronze medal at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships in the Lightweight (up to 63 kg) division. She then won a Bronze at the Olympic Test event in 2007 in the +67 kg weight category. She has also competed in the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships competing in the bantamweight and welterweight, winning two fights, the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships finishing in the round of 16, and the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships in the lightweight division, losing to Marina Sumić in the quarter finals [2] Carmen has recently secured a bronze at the 2011 Universiade Games in Shenzhen, China. In September 2011 she secured the under 67 kg division for Australia at the Oceania Olympic Qualification Tournament. She won, and competed in the 2008 Olympics in the +67 kg category, losing to Natália Falavigna in the quarterfinals.