Gwladys Épangue

Gwladys Épangue

Personal information

Surname:

Gwladys Patience Épangue

Nationality:

France

Society:

La Courneuve Taekwondo Club
TKD Club Saint Maur

Birthday:

August 15, 1983

Place of birth:

Clichy

Size:

176 cm

Medals

Olympic games
bronze	Beijing 2008	up to 67 kg
bronze	Rio de Janeiro 2016	over 67 kg
World championships
silver	Madrid 2005	up to 67 kg
silver	Beijing 2007	up to 67 kg
gold	Copenhagen 2009	up to 67 kg
gold	Gyeongju 2011	up to 73 kg
silver	Chelyabinsk 2015	over 73 kg
European championships
silver	Patras 2000	up to 55 kg
gold	Samsun 2002	up to 55 kg
gold	Lillehammer 2004	up to 59 kg
gold	Riga 2005	up to 67 kg
silver	Bonn 2006	up to 67 kg
silver	Rome 2008	up to 67 kg
bronze	St. Petersburg 2010	up to 73 kg
European Games
gold	Baku 2015	over 67 kg

Gwladys Patience Épangue (born August 15, 1983 in Clichy ) is a French Taekwondoin .

She started her sport at the age of eleven and started for the La Courneuve Taekwondo Club . Épangue celebrated her first international success at the 2000 European Championships in Patras , where she reached the final in the weight class up to 55 kilograms and won silver. She won the title at the European Championships in Samsun in 2002 and in Lillehammer in 2004 . Épangue qualified for the Olympic Games in Athens , but retired there in their opening fight. Since 2005, Épangue has started in the higher weight class up to 67 kilograms. At the European Championship in Riga she won her third European title, at the World Championship in Madrid she won her first World Championship medal with silver. In the years 2006 to 2008 she also won a silver medal at the European and World Championships.

Épangue celebrated her greatest sporting success so far at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . She reached the semi-finals and lost there to Hwang Kyung-seon , but won the bronze medal in the small final against Tina Morgan . At the 2009 World Championships in Copenhagen and in her new weight class up to 73 kilograms in Gyeongju in 2011 , she was world champion. The title win in 2009 was the first World Cup gold medal for a French Taekwondoin.

At the international qualification tournament in Baku in July 2011 , Épangue was able to qualify in the weight class over 67 kilograms for their third Olympic Games in London .

Web links

Gwladys Épangue on the TaekwondoData .com website

Individual evidence

↑ Interview de Gwladys Epangue (taekwondo). Retrieved May 18, 2012 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Épangue, Gwladys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Épangue, Gwladys Patience (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Clichy

[1] Interview de Gwladys Epangue (taekwondo). Retrieved May 18, 2012 (French).