Andreas Stylianou (Taekwondo)

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Andreas Stylianou Taekwondo
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Nationality: Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Cyprus
Birthday: April 22, 1985
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Andreas Stylianou (born April 22, 1985 ) is a Cypriot Taekwondoin who starts in the heavyweight division.

Stylianou fought his first international title fights at the Junior World Championships in 2002 in Heraklion and the following year in the adult division at the World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2003 , but he suffered initial defeats. Even in the following years he could not win any opening matches in championships, first successes only came with the quarter-finals at the European Championships 2010 in Saint Petersburg . Stylianou celebrated his greatest sporting success so far at the 2011 World Championships in Gyeongju , where he surprisingly made it to the semi-finals in the heavyweight division over 87 kilograms and won his first international medal with bronze. At the European Championships in Manchester in 2012 Stylianou reached the quarter-finals again.

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SURNAME Stylianou, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cypriot Taekwondo
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1985