Daniela Souza Explained

Daniela Souza
Fullname:Daniela Paola Souza Naranjo
Birth Date:1999 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Zapopan, Mexico
Country:Mexico
Sport:Taekwondo
Event: -49 kg
Team:MEX
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Updated:18 December 2022

Daniela Paola Souza Naranjo (born 27 August 1999) is a Mexican taekwondo athlete of combat or kyorugi modality.[1] She won the gold medal in the women's flyweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.[2]

She has won bronze at the World Taekwondo Junior Championships in 2016, the gold medal at the Barranquilla Central American and Caribbean Games in 2018 and at the 2019 Pan American Games in the –49 kg category.[3] [4]

She participated in the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, reaching the quarterfinals of the flyweight tournament. After advancing on a first-round bye, she defeated Bouma Coulibaly from Ivory Coast and Avishag Semberg of Israel before falling to two-time Olympic gold medalist Wu Jingyu.[5]

She was born in Zapopan,[6] but considers Tijuana her hometown.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Taekwondo - Daniela Souza (Mexico) . www.the-sports.org . 6 August 2019.
  2. News: Berkeley . Geoff . 17 November 2022 . Mexico and South Korea strike gold again at World Taekwondo Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . 17 November 2022.
  3. Web site: Mexico triumphs at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games . 29 July 2019 . El Universal . es . 6 August 2019.
  4. Web site: Elías secures revenge to triumph in men's squash competition at Lima 2019 . 28 June 2019 . www.insidethegames.biz . 6 August 2019.
  5. News: México se queda cerca del podio en tercera jornada de Mundial de Taekwondo de Manchester . Periódico Noroeste . 17 May 2019 . 6 August 2019 . Spanish . 6 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190806075624/https://www.noroeste.com.mx/publicaciones/view/mxico-se-queda-cerca-del-podio-en-tercera-jornada-de-mundial-de-taekwondo-de-manchester-1163656 . dead.
  6. News: Daniela Souza feliz por dejar la categoría juvenil de Taekwondo . Eduardo . Rubio . Xeu Deportes . 23 April 2019 . 6 August 2019 . Spanish.
  7. News: Daniela Souza, primera bajacaliforniana con oro en Juegos Panamericanos . Rafael . González Martínez . . 27 July 2019 . 6 August 2019 . Spanish.