Dina Pouryounes Explained

Native Name:دینا پوریونس
Dina Pouryounes
Birth Date:1 January 1992
Birth Place:Langarud, Iran
Country:Netherlands
Sport:Taekwondo

Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi (; born 1 January 1992) is a taekwondo athlete from Iran, who competes for the Netherlands. She participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics.[1]

Career

Pouryounes competed in her first major international event as a senior at the Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012, where she claimed a bronze medal in the women's 46 kg competition.[2] She was a member of the Iranian national team for eight years. Since moving to the Netherlands, she competes for the latter as well as the refugee team under the IOC team flag.[3]

Pouryounes left Iran for the Netherlands in 2015. In September 2015, she won her first international world ranking medal at the Polish Open while she was still living in an asylum centre. She then became the first refugee athlete to compete at the World Taekwondo Championships.[4]

She was included as one of 29 members of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]

Pouryounes latest medal is a bronze in the women's 46 kg competition at the 2024 Fujairah Open, held in the United Arab Emirates. In March 2024, she competed in the European Qualification Tournament for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. There, she lost her first fight (round of 16) to Romanian athlete Mihaela Nicoleta Claudia Bajan.[6]

She was selected for the IOC Refugee Team for the Paris Games.[7] She was defeated by eventual silver medalist Guo Qing of China.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brodsky . Samantha . 2021-06-29 . Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi, Taekwondo . 2023-12-22 . POPSUGAR Fitness UK . en-GB.
  2. Web site: TaekwondoData . 2023-12-22 . TaekwondoData . en.
  3. Web site: Dina POURYOUNES LANGEROUDI. olympics.com. 26 May 2023.
  4. Web site: Meet Dina Pouryounes: The IOC Refugee Athlete taking taekwondo by storm. 2021-07-26. Olympics.com.
  5. Web site: Dina Pouryounes makes Olympic debut in taekwondo for Refugee Team at Tokyo 2020. 2021-07-26. Tokyo 2020. en-US. 2021-07-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20210725130915/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/dina-pouryounes-refugee-olympic-team-athlete-competes-taekwondo-tokyo-2020. dead.
  6. https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/EQT-Olympic-P11-Competition-Draw-Sheet-DAY-1-09-MAR-2024.pdf
  7. Web site: Refugee Taekwondo Athlete Dina Pouryounes on being her best at Paris 2024. Rafael. Khalatyan. 21 July 2024.
  8. Web site: REFUGEE ATHLETE DINA POURYOUNES LANGEROUDI EDGED OUT BY GUO QING IN WOMEN’S -49KG TAEKWONDO EVENT AT PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS . Olympics.com. 12 August 2024. Michael. Hincks. 7 August 2024.