Sebastián Crismanich

Sebastián Crismanich

Personal information

Surname:

Sebastián Eduardo Crismanich

Nationality:

Argentina

Birthday:

October 30, 1986

Place of birth:

Corrientes

Medals

Olympic games
gold	London 2012	up to 80 kg
Pan American Games
gold	Guadalajara 2011	up to 80 kg
Pan American Championships
gold	Buenos Aires 2006	up to 72 kg
gold	Caguas 2008	up to 78 kg
bronze	Aguascalientes 2014	up to 78 kg

Sebastián Eduardo Crismanich (born October 30, 1986 in Corrientes ) is an Argentine Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 80 kilograms.

Crismanich came to Taekwondo at the age of seven. He played his first international title fights at the 2005 World Cup in Madrid , where he was eliminated in the class up to 72 kilograms in the quarter-finals. In the following years he was particularly successful at the Pan American Championships. In 2006 he won the title for the first time in Buenos Aires in the class up to 72 kilograms, and in 2008 he repeated the triumph in the class up to 78 kilograms. Crismanich celebrated his greatest sporting success so far at the Pan American Games 2011 in Guadalajara . He won the gold medal in the class up to 80 kilograms with a final victory over Carlos Vázquez .

At the Pan-American Olympic qualification tournament in Santiago de Querétaro , Crismanich reached the final against Steven Lopez in the class up to 80 kilograms and secured participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London . There he won the gold medal, with a narrow 1-0 victory in the final over the Spaniard Nicolás García and thus the first in this sport in Argentine sports history. He is also the first Argentine Olympic champion in an individual sport in 64 years.

Crismanich is studying agricultural science in Córdoba . His brother Mauro is also a successful Taekwondoin.

Web links

Commons : Sebastián Crismanich - collection of images, videos and audio files

Sebastián Crismanich on the pages of TaekwondoData .com
Sebastián Crismanich in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Argentina y su primer oro en taekwondo - Contra la corriente (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy of August 10, 2012, accessed on August 11, 2012
↑ Sebastián Crismanich. Retrieved July 8, 2012 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Crismanich, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Crismanich, Sebastián Eduardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Corrientes , Corrientes Province , Argentina

[1] Argentina y su primer oro en taekwondo - Contra la corriente (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy of August 10, 2012, accessed on August 11, 2012

[2] Sebastián Crismanich. Retrieved July 8, 2012 (Spanish).