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Joaquín Churchill
Chilean taekwondo practitioner (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joaquín Andrés Churchill Martínez[2][a] (born 17 October 2002) is a Chilean taekwondo practitioner. He was a silver medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games and competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Early life
He is from Puente Alto. He started taekwondo at the age of nine-years old. He is a member of Areté Sports Club and studied Physical Education at Andrés Bello University.[3][4]
Career
He won bronze in the 74kg category at the 2021 Pan American Taekwondo Championships in Cancún, Mexico in June 2021.[5]
He was a silver medalist at the 2022 Bolivarian Games in Colombia in the -80kg. After recovering from an injury that ruled him out of action for three months, he was a silver medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, in the Men's Kyorugi team.[3][6][7]
He qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games at the 2024 Pan American Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in San Domingo, Dominican Republic in April 2024.[8][9][10]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris he competed in the 80kg category.[11][12]
He defeated CJ Nickolas in the final of the -80kg at the 2025 Dutch Open.[13]
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Notes
- In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Churchill and the second or maternal family name is Martinez.
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