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Moon Dae-sung

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Moon Dae-sung is a retired South Korean taekwondo athlete born September 3, 1976. He won the Olympic gold medal in the heavyweight division at the 2004 Athens Games, defeating Greece's Alexandros Nikolaidis in the final, and he also won gold at the 1999 World Championships in Edmonton, the 2002 Asian Games in Busan and the 2000 Asian Championships in Hong Kong, all in the heavyweight division.

Facts
Birth Year
1976 1
Birth Date
1976-09-03 1
Nationality
South Korean 1
Career Highlight
Won the 2004 Athens Olympic heavyweight taekwondo gold medal 1
Sources
1. Moon Dae-sung - Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, birth date
    Moon Dae-sung (Korean: 문대성; born September 3, 1976) is a retired 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 200 lb (91 kg) Olympic taekwondo athlete from South Korea.
  • Lead paragraph, birth year
    Moon Dae-sung (Korean: 문대성; born September 3, 1976) is a retired 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 200 lb (91 kg) Olympic taekwondo athlete from South Korea.
  • Lead paragraph, nationality
    Moon Dae-sung (Korean: 문대성; born September 3, 1976) is a retired 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 200 lb (91 kg) Olympic taekwondo athlete from South Korea.
  • Career achievements sentence
    He won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics held in Athens, Greece, in the heavyweight division after knocking out Greece's Alexandros Nikolaidis with a reverse kick.
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