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Theopoula Sarvanaki
Theopoula “Thenia" Sarvanaki (born 23 August 2004) is a Greek Taekwondo practitioner. She was a silver medalist at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships. Early lifeBorn in Thessaloniki, she started taekwondo at the age of five years-old.[2] CareerJuniorA successful junior, she won gold at the European Championships in the 55 kg category in Spain in 2018.[3] She finished as runner-up in the −63 kg division at 2021 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Sarajevo, losing out to Hungarian Viviana Marton in the final.[4][5] Senior2022Stepping up to the senior ranks, she was fifth at the Manchester Grand Prix in May 2022.[6] She was a silver medalist in the Women's lightweight division at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships in Guadalajara, aged 18 years-old.[7][8] She reached the final with a victory against Feruza Sadikova, but was defeated in the final by Belgian Sarah Chaari.[9] In October 2022, she won the Dutch Open. She dedicated the win to her compatriot and twice Olympic medalist Alexandros Nikolaidis who had died shortly beforehand.[10] 2023In February 2023, she won gold at the Presidents Cup in Antalya, Turkey, defeating the 2022 European Champion Jone Magdaleno of Spain in the final.[11] That month, she was selected for the 2023 European Games in Kraków.[12] In May 2023, she won gold at the European Club Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. She did so without losing a single round in her four victorious matches.[13] Later that month, she competed at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in Baku where she lost to eventual winner Magda Wiet-Hénin.[14] References
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