Alicia Brännback Explained

Alicia Brännback
Birth Date:28 August 2000
Country:Sweden
Sport:Taekwondo
Event:Recognized Poomsae
Club:Västerås Taekwondoklubb,
Poomsae Team Elite Sweden
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Alicia Brännback (born 28 August 2000) is a Swedish taekwondo athlete and 2023 European Poomsae bronze medalist.[1]

Career

Brännback started practising the Korean martial art of taekwondo at the age of five and participated in her first international competition in 2015.[2] [3] As a junior, she competed in the European Championships in 2015 and the World Championships in 2016. In 2017, she placed 6th at the World Championships in the pairs competition (one boy and one girl) in traditional poomsae. In 2018, she started competing as a senior and participated in the World Championships in Taipei.[4]

In 2019, she competed in the European Beach Championships in Antalya and won the silver medal in the women's traditional pumsae competition. She participated in the 2020 World Championships and the 2021 European Championships.

Brännback won the silver medal in the first Taekwondo Poomsae European Cup in 2022 and thus qualified for the European Championships in 2023.[5] In 2023, after losing to Denmark's Eva Sandersen in the semi-finals, she claimed a bronze medal in the women's Recognized Poomsae competition at the European Championships in Innsbruck.[6]

Notes and References

  1. https://poomsae.taekwondodata.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Sweden_Datei.pdf
  2. News: Nyheter . S. V. T. . Kero . Julia . 2014-03-07 . Far och dotter följs åt i eliten . sv . SVT Nyheter . 2023-11-26.
  3. Web site: 2014-11-26 . Västerås stad uppvaktar idrottsstjärnor på årets idrottsgala i Bombardier Arena . 2023-11-26 . Mynewsdesk . sv.
  4. Web site: 2016-01-29 . 15-åriga supertalangen sparkade sig in i landslaget . 2023-11-26 . VLT . sv.
  5. Web site: Bergkvist . Jonas . 2022-09-09 . Alicia Brännback säkrade EM-biljett . 2023-11-26 . www.vasterastidning.se . sv-SE.
  6. https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TalkFile_Day-1-Result-Draw.pdf