Carola López

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Carola López Taekwondo
Personal information
Surname: Carola Malvina López Rodríguez
Nationality: ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
Birthday: April 17, 1982
Place of birth: Cordoba
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Carola Malvina López Rodríguez (born April 17, 1982 in Córdoba ) is an Argentine Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 49 kilograms.

López has been taking part in international competitions since 1998. At her first World Cup in 2001 in Jeju-si , she retired in the class up to 51 kilograms after the opening fight. The 2005 World Cup in Madrid was more successful . In the class up to 47 kilograms, López reached the quarter-finals, but narrowly missed a medal after a defeat against Sümeyye Manz . In the same weight class, she won her first international medal with silver at the Pan American Championship in Buenos Aires the following year . Due to differences with the Argentine federation, López subsequently ended her active career, but returned to the competition mat in 2011. At the Pan-American Olympic qualification tournament in Santiago de Querétaro , López won the decisive battle for third place against Carolena Carstens in the class up to 49 kilograms and secured participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London , although she was handicapped by a broken hand only a few weeks earlier .

López graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina with a degree in economics. She trains under Jeovani Baeza at the Sports Center of the National University of Cordoba .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ En Londres 2012: Carola Malvina López, con su nombre, lleva las islas a los Juegos. Retrieved July 8, 2012 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME López, Carola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES López Rodríguez, Carola Malvina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba