Nia Abdallah

Nia Nicole Abdallah, born on 24 January 1984 in Houston, Texas, is an American taekwondo competitor who won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics and was the first U.S. woman to officially medal in taekwondo at the Olympic Games. She was introduced to taekwondo by her stepfather at the age of nine and later trained at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. A controversial overtime loss to Diana López in the 2008 Olympic trials ended her hopes of a second Games, and she fell short again in the 2012 trials. She was inducted into the Taekwondo Hall of Fame in 2007 and afterwards became the Texas state women's head coach and founded the competition team Team Bacho in Houston.