Damián Villa
Damián Villa 
|
|||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||
| Surname: | Damián Alejandro Villa Valadez | ||||||||||||
| Nationality: |
 Mexico
|
||||||||||||
| Birthday: | August 7, 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Zamora | ||||||||||||
|
Medals
|
|||||||||||||
Damián Alejandro Villa Valadez (born August 7, 1990 in Zamora , Mexico ) is a Mexican Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 58 kilograms.
Villa played his first international title fights at the Pan American Championship in Caguas in 2008 , but was eliminated in his opening fight. His greatest sporting success to date was the following year at his first World Cup in Copenhagen . In the class up to 58 kilograms he surprisingly made it into the final and won the silver medal after a defeat against Joel González . 2011 was another successful year for Villa. At the Pan-American Games in Guadalajara he fought his way to the final and won silver, at the American Olympic qualification tournament in Santiago de Querétaro he won the decisive battle for third place and won a quota place for the Olympic Games 2012 in London . Surprisingly, Villa lost the team's internal qualification against Diego García de León and missed participation in the games.
Web links
- Damián Villa on the pages of TaekwondoData .com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Buscará Damián Villa el boleto para los Juegos Olímpicos. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 8, 2011 ; Retrieved June 19, 2012 (Spanish). 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villa, Damián |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Villa Valadez, Damián Alejandro (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican Taekwondoin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zamora |