Bianca Walkden, also known as Bianca Cook, is an English taekwondo athlete born in 1991 who competes in the women's heavyweight division. She is a three-time world champion, a two-time World Grand Prix champion and a four-time European champion, and she has won Olympic bronze medals at Rio 2016 and the delayed Tokyo Games. In 2017 she became the first competitor to win all four World Grand Prix events in a single year, and she was the first Briton to defend a world taekwondo title. Her 2019 world title came after an opponent was disqualified, a result that drew booing from the crowd.
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is an English taekwondo athlete and Olympian
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Born 29 September 1991 in Liverpool, England GBR
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is an English taekwondo athlete and Olympian
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She is a three-time World champion, two-time World Grand Prix champion, four-time European champion and a double Olympic medallist
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In the run-up to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Walkden became European champion again
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