Tommy Mollet

Tommy Mollet

Personal information

Nationality:

Netherlands

Birthday:

March 29, 1979

Place of birth:

Tilburg

Medals

World championships
bronze	Beijing 2007	up to 72 kg
European championships
bronze	Samsun 2002	up to 72 kg
bronze	Lillehammer 2004	up to 72 kg
silver	Riga 2005	up to 72 kg
bronze	Bonn 2006	up to 72 kg
bronze	Rome 2008	up to 72 kg
bronze	Manchester 2012	up to 80 kg

Tommy Mollet (born March 29, 1979 in Tilburg ) is a Dutch Taekwondoin . He starts in light and welterweight.

Mollet achieved his first success with the Junior European Championship in 1998. In the adult field, he has won a medal at five European championships in a row since 2002, bronze in Samsun in 2002 and in Lillehammer in 2004 , silver in 2005 in Riga and in 2006 in Bonn and in 2008 in Rome again bronze. Mollet played the most successful world championship in 2007 in Beijing , where he made it to the semi-finals and won bronze. After several title fights, in which Mollet was eliminated early, he returned to the road to success at the 2012 European Championships in Manchester and won a bronze medal. Mollet started in the weight class up to 80 kilograms for the first time.

In January 2012, Mollet reached the final of the European Olympic qualification tournament in Kazan in the weight class up to 80 kilograms and qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London .

Web links

Portrait of the Dutch Olympic Committee (Dutch)
Tommy Mollet on the TaekwondoData.com website

personal data
SURNAME	Mollet, Tommy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1979