Kyriaki Kouvari Explained

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Kyriaki Kouvari
Birth Date:19 January 1984
Birth Place:Thessaloniki, Greece
Weight:730NaN0
Sport:Taekwondo
Event:+67 kg
Club:Keratsini
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Kyriaki Kouvari (Κυριακή Κούβαρη; born January 19, 1984, in Thessaloniki) is a Greek taekwondo practitioner.[1] She won the bronze medal for the heavyweight category at the 2003 World Taekwondo Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Kouvari competed for the women's heavyweight category (+67 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after defeating Great Britain's Sarah Stevenson for the gold medal at the World Qualification Tournament in Manchester, England.[2] She lost the first preliminary match by a defensive kick from Brazil's Natália Falavigna, with a score of 1–3.[3]

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  1. Kyriaki Kouvari. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418071438/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/kyriaki-kouvari-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 7 December 2012.
  2. News: Women's Taekwondo +67 kg. CBC News. 12 August 2008. 6 December 2012.
  3. Web site: Women's +67kg (+148 lbs) Preliminary Round of 16. NBC Olympics. 6 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20140103184648/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/taekwondo/resultsandschedules/rsc=TKW167404/index.html. 3 January 2014. dead.