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                                       World’s Highest Ranked Woman in TaeKwondo Fifth Dan black belt assistant, Happy Kierstead, (right) stands with 9th Dan Grandmaster Brenda Sell during a recent test at the Kootenay Martial Arts. — Submitted photo A world leader in TaeKwondo is coming to Nelson to help award black belts to 20 students from the Kootenays, Alberta, and Washington State. 9th Dan Grandmaster Brenda Sell is one of only two 9th degree black belt women in the world, and the highest-ranked non-Korean woman in the world. She will be the lead examiner for the black belt testing at Kootenay Martial Arts on October 18. Grandmaster Sell is president of the United States Chung Do Kwon Association (USCDKA) and will bring her expertise to adjudicate at the black belt testing and teach two days of Tae Kwon do seminars. “Kootenay Martial Arts is starting its 18th season with a bang. We’re testing 20 candidates, ages 10 to 60, for their black belts, which is pretty intensive, and pret

  Lauren Williams Lauren Williams  (born 25 February 1999) is a British taekwondo athlete who represents Great Britain. Lauren won her third consecutive European championship Gold medal in 2019 in Bari, Italy. She holds these titles in the -67 kg weight category. 2014/2016 Lauren won the Junior World championships consecutively. In December 2018 Lauren won the Grand Slam Series held in Wuxi China. Lauren has 2 Gold medals from the Grand Prix Serious with multiple podium finishes. She has Qualified a Quota place for Great Britain at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games through Top 5 Ranking Automatic qualification.                  Lauren Williams Personal information Nickname(s) Loz Nationality British Born 25 February 1999  (age 22) Wales Height 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) Weight 67 kg (148 lb) Sport Country Great Britain Sport Taekwondo Event(s)  –67 kg Club GB Olympic Academy Team GBR Turned pro 2013 Coached by Michael Harvey Achievements and titles Highest world ranking 2 hide Medal record Represen

  Hwang Kyung-Seon First Woman To Win Three Olympic Taekwondo Medals Hwang Kyung-Seon  ( born May 21, 1986), also spelled   Hwang Kyung-sun , is a female   South Korean   Taekwondo   practitioner. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from  the  2008   and   2012 Summer Olympics . Career In 2008, she won the gold medal in the -67kg category at the Beijing Olympic Games, beating 2007 world lightweight (-63 kg) champion Karine Sergerie of Canada in the final. In 2012, she won the gold medal in the -67kg category at the London Olympic Games, beating the 2012 European Champion (-67 kg) Nur Tatar of Turkey in the final. She became the first Korean female athlete (and the second Korean) to defend an individual title in the Summer Olympics and to win an Olympic individual medal in a particular event in three consecutive Olympic Games, Jin Jong-oh in shooting having achieved the same feats for men's 50 m pistol earlier in the 2012 Summer Olympics. At 26, she became the youngest Korean to achi

  Jade Jones Bast Taekwondo Female Player 2020 & 2021 Jade Jones   OBE (Born 21 March 1993) is a welsh taekwondo athlete. She is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women's 57 kg category, and the 2019 World champion, 2016,2018, and 2020 European Games champion at the same weight. In 2012, she won Britain's first taekwondo Olympic Gold medal in this category. Jones was at the time the reigning Youth Olympic in the girl's 55 kg category, Winning Gold for Great Britain in 2010 Jones was born Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales. She Attended Flint High School leaving age 16 to take up Taekwondo Full-time. As of 2012, Jones is 1.69 meters (5 ft 7 in) tall and weighs 57 kilograms (126 lb). She Competes as part of the GB Taekwondo Academy, Which is Based in Manchester.       Personal information Nickname(s) The Headhunter Nationality British Born 21 March 1993  (age 27) Bodelwyddan, Wales, UK Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) Weight 57 kg (126 lb) Sport Country   Great Brit