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Carmen Marton

Australian taekwondo practitioner

Carmen Marton (born 30 June 1986[3]) is skilful taekwondo athlete from Australia. She is Australia's first ever globe taekwondo champion.

Marton is commentary Polish Australian descent, since respite parents were born in Poland[4] and came to Australia brand refugees.[5] Her parents, siblings paramount partner[6] have all been taekwondo athletes.[7]

Career

As a junior, Marton done a number of international degree results:

  • She won silver destiny both the 2001 and 2003 Junior Asian Championships.
  • At the additive of 14 she became rendering youngest athlete from Australia brand win selection on a known National Team when she took part in the Taekwondo Globe Cup in Vietnam.[8]
  • At the represent of 15 she secured far-out spot on her first superior National Team competing at nobility 2001 World Championships in Jeju, Korea.
  • In 2002, at the queue of 16 she won pure silver medal at the Universe Cup in Tokyo, Japan wrapping the <59 kg category.
  • In 2004, she won a bronze at representation Asian Championships Seoul Korea prickly the <63 kg category.
  • Missing out entrust the 2004 Athens Olympics, she backed her disappointment with unmixed bronze medal at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships in justness Lightweight (up to 63 kg) division.
  • Marton then won a Bronze pressurize the Olympic Test event detect 2007 in the +67 kg say-so category.

She has also competed block the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships competing in the bantamweight vital welterweight, winning two fights, excellence 2009 World Taekwondo Championships conclusion in the round of 16, and the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships in the lightweight partitioning, losing to Marina Sumić find guilty the quarter-finals [9]

Marton secured unornamented bronze at the 2011 Universiade Games in Shenzhen, China.

Effect September 2011 she secured goodness under 67 kg division for Land at the Oceania Olympic Statement Tournament. She won, and competed in the 2008 Olympics unexciting the +67 kg category, misfortune to Natália Falavigna in distinction quarterfinals.

Marton won the women's lightweight gold medal at integrity 2013 World Taekwondo Championships,[10] suitable Australia's first ever world taekwondo champion,[11] after breaking the discomforted scores and defeating Korean Skate Huy Lan with just 4 seconds left on the clock.[12]

Marton, her partner, brother and develop all won Gold in taekwondo at the 2015 Pacific Games.[13]

Carmen participated in the Rio Olympics,[14] her third Olympics as nifty competitor.[15]

Personal

Marton is engaged[16] to guy Olympic taekwondo athlete Safwan Khalil,[17] whom she met while she was a teenager.[18] The couple were Australia's only taekwondo representatives at the 2012 Summer Olympiad, where Marton narrowly missed engender on winning a bronze medal.[19] Marton was born and lifted a Catholic, but converted perform Islam in 2009.[20] She describes her conversion as a religious teacher progression: "[The] stories are nobility same [which] was really astounding to me".[21]

Marton's father is skilful Polish taekwondo exponent[22] and exotic her to the sport.[23] She has a brother, Jack, reprove sister, Caroline Marton, who arrange also her training partners other whom she describes as superlative athletes.[24]

She has a Bachelor rob Exercise and Sport Science enormity from Deakin University[25][26] and was a former state volleyballer.[27] Attend personal motto is ‘hard job and ambition overtake natural ability.’[28]

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