Gladys Mora
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| Full name | Gladys Alicia Mora Romero | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Colombia | ||||||||||||
| Born |
31 July 1980 Barranquilla, Colombia | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 49 kg | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gladys Alicia Mora Romero (born July 31, 1980 in Barranquila) is a Colombian taekwondo practitioner.[1] She is a two-time Olympian, and a four-time medalist at the Pan American Taekwondo Championships.[2] She also won a bronze medal for the 51 kg class at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena, Colombia.[3]
Mora made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the women's flyweight category (49 kg). She first defeated Indonesia's Juana Wangsa Putri by a superiority decision in the preliminary rounds, before losing out her next match to Chinese Taipei's Chen Shih-Hsin, with a sudden death score of 0–1. Because her opponent advanced further into the final match, Mora took advantage of the repechage rounds by defeating Nepal's Sangina Baidya and Guatemala's Euda Carías. She progressed to the bronze medal match, but narrowly lost the medal to Thailand's Yaowapa Boorapolchai, with a score of 1–2.[4]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Mora qualified for the second time in the women's 49 kg class, after winning the championship title from the Pan American Qualification Tournament in Cali, Colombia.[5] Unfortunately, she lost the first preliminary round match to another Chinese Taipei taekwondo practitioner Yang Shu-Chun, with a score of 0–1.[6][7]
References
- ↑ "Gladys Mora". Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ↑ "Taekwondo: Olympian Charlotte Craig Wins Gold Medal at Pan American Championships". Team USA. 5 October 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ↑ "Cuba, Dominicana y Venezuela ganan últimos oros en el torneo de taekwondo" [Cuba, Dominican Republic and Venezuela finally win golds in taekwondo tournament] (in Spanish). Globo Vision. 29 July 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ↑ "Taiwan enjoy double gold". BBC Sport. 26 August 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ↑ "WTF Pan American Qualification Tournament Concludes in Success in Cali, Colombia". World Taekwondo Federation. 10 December 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 49kg (108 lbs) Preliminary Round of 16". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ↑ Staff (21 August 2008). "Chu wins bronze, Yang misses out". Taipei Times. Retrieved 12 January 2013.