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Luana Márton (born 16 February 2006) is a Hungarian taekwondo practitioner. She was a gold medalist at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships.
The daughter of Zsolt and Barbara Márton, her father formerly did kickboxing in Budapest and her mother played handball. Her parents moved to the Canary Islands in the early 2000s. She was born in Tenerife, and moved to Madrid in 2018.[2]
She trains at the Hankuk club in Madrid and is coached by Finnish former Olympic Taekwondo practitioner Suvi Mikkonen.[2][3]
She won the open qualification tournament for the 2022 World Taekwondo Grand Slam Champions Series in Wuxi in March 2023 in the -57kg category.[4] In June of that year, she won a silver medal at the 2023 European Games in Kraków where she was beaten in the final by Jade Jones of Great Britain.[5][6]
She won the gold medal in the Women's featherweight on her debut at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships, in Baku, aged 17 years-old.[7] In doing so, she became the first female Hungarian ever to win a world title in Taekwondo.[3]
She was runner-up at the 2023 European U21 Taekwondo Championships 62kg title in Bucharest in November 2023, being defeated by her sister Viviana in the final.[8]
She has a twin sister, Viviana Márton, who also competes international in Taekwondo, in the women’s -62kg division.[2]
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