Bineta Diedhiou

Bineta Diedhiou
Personal information
Nationality:	Senegal
Birthday:	January 8, 1986
Place of birth:	Dakar
Size:	168 cm

Bineta Diedhiou (born January 8, 1986 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 57 kilograms.

Diedhiou played her first international title fights in the adult division at the 2003 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , but she retired in the class up to 55 kilograms in the opening fight. At the following World Cup in 2005 in Madrid , she achieved the greatest sporting success of her career to date. In the class up to 59 kilograms she reached the semifinals and won her first international medal with bronze. Diedhiou qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , where she reached the quarter-finals in featherweight up to 57 kilograms, but was eliminated there against Veronica Calabrese and finished ninth in the final ranking. At the 2011 World Cup in Gyeongju , Diedhiou moved into the quarter-finals, where she lost to Jade Jones and narrowly missed her second World Cup medal. At the beginning of 2012 she secured participation in her second Olympic Games in London at the African Olympic qualification tournament in Cairo , and in the class up to 57 kilograms she reached the final against Hedaya Malak .

At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, Diedhiou was the flag bearer of the Senegalese team.

Web links

• Bineta Diedhiou in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Bineta Diedhiou on the TaekwondoData .com website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ flag bearers for Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 7, 2008 ; accessed on June 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.