Headercolor: | lightblue |
Fullname: | Rui Pedro Rebelo Bragança |
Nationality: | Portuguese |
Birth Date: | 1991 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Guimarães, Portugal |
Education: | Medicine |
Height: | 1.80 m |
Weight: | 580NaN0 |
Sport: | Taekwondo |
Event: | 58 kg |
Universityteam: | University of Minho |
Club: | Benfica |
Coach: | Hugo Serrão Joaquim Peixoto (national) Pedro Campaniço (national) |
Highestranking: | 1st (−58kg) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Updated: | June 2018 |
Rui Pedro Rebelo Bragança (born 26 December 1991) is a Portuguese taekwondo practitioner who competes in the men's 58 kg (flyweight) category.
Born in Guimarães, Bragança started practising taekwondo with 13 years old when he joined a class at Vitória de Guimarães gym. Two years later, he won the Portuguese National Junior Championships which led to a spot at the European Junior Championships in Baku, where he won the bronze medal.
In 2014, Bragança led the world ranking in his weight category.[1]
He graduated in Medicine at University of Minho.
In 2016 he signed with Benfica, along with his coach Hugo Serrão and his training partner Nuno Costa, all coming from Vitória de Guimarães.[2] In 2019 he extended his contract for two more years with the main focus on the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3]
He has qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics through the 2021 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament.