Son Tae-jin

Son Tae-jin
Personal information
Nationality:	South Korea
Birthday:	May 5, 1988
Place of birth:	Gyeongsan
Size:	176 cm

Son Tae-jin ( Korean 손태진 ; * May 5, 1988 in Gyeongsan ) is a South Korean Taekwondoin . He became the 2008 Olympic featherweight champion.

Son celebrated his first international success at the Junior Asian Championships 2005 in Almaty , winning the title in the class up to 63 kilograms. In 2007 he qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing at the International Olympic Qualification Tournament in Manchester . In the run-up to the team, he surprisingly prevailed against Song Myeong-seob . In the Olympic tournament, Son moved into the final in the class up to 68 kilograms with victories over Dennis Bekkers , Servet Tazegül and Sung Yu-chi , where he narrowly beat Mark Lopez and became Olympic champion. In the years after the games, Son did not make the leap to the national team and did not contest any other international title fights.

Web links

• Son Tae-jin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Son Tae-jin on the pages of TaekwondoData .com

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Son is the family name here, Tae-jin is the first name.