Sangina Baidya Explained

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Sangina Baidya
Fullname:Sangina Baidya (संगिना बैद्य)
Birth Place:Kathmandu, Nepal
Sport:Taekwondo
Event:Kyorugi
Coach:Nastu Bahadur Bisural
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Sangina Baidya (Nepali: संगिना बैद्य) (born December 29, 1974, in Kathmandu) is a retired Nepalese taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's flyweight category.[1] She won the Gold medal in the Flyweight−47 kg division at the 1996 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Melbourne,Australia.She retrieved a bronze medal in the 51-kg division at the 2000 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Hong Kong, China, and attained a seventh-place finish at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing her nation Nepal.[2] Before her sporting career ended in 2009, Baidya trained for Central Dojang Taekwondo Club in her native Kathmandu, under her personal coach Nastu Bahadur Bisural.[2]

Career

Baidya played taekwondo for a long time as a athlete in the Nepal Taekwondo Association. She started practicing taekwondo at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has obtained a total of ten national championship titles, and won fourteen medals (ten golds, a silver, and three bronzes) in twenty international tournaments between 1992 and 2001. Moreover, Baidya became a quarterfinalist in the women's flyweight class at the 1995 World Taekwondo Championships in Manila, Philippines, and accepted several prestigious awards for her full dedication to the sport, including three as the sportswoman of the year by Nepal Sports Journalist Forum (1996, 1997, and 2003).[2] [3]

Holding her distinction of becoming the nation's first ever taekwondo squad, Baidya qualified for the Nepalese squad in the women's flyweight class (49 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, she placed third and booked her place on the Nepalese team from the Asian Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.[4] [5] She crashed out in an immediate 0–4 defeat to Chinese Taipei's Chen Shih-hsin in her opening match, but slipped directly into the repechage bracket for her chance of Nepal's first Olympic medal in history, following Chen's progress towards the final.[6] In the repechage, Baidya fell short in her first playoff to Colombia's Gladys Mora with a 0–4 decision and a disputable one-point deduction for landing a kick on her opponent's head, relegating Baidya to seventh.[7] [8]

Notes and References

  1. Sangina Baidya. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074411/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/sangina-baidya-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 14 January 2015.
  2. News: Prajwal. Oli. Sangina Baidya retires as taekwondo player. República. Kathmandu. 19 July 2009. 14 January 2015.
  3. News: Neeraj Chandra. Roy. Taekwondo damsels in the spotlight. República. Kathmandu. 27 October 2010. 14 January 2015.
  4. Web site: Athens 2004: Taekwondo – Women's Entry List by NOC. PDF. 5–7. Athens 2004. LA84 Foundation. 28 December 2014.
  5. News: Mahesh. Acharya. Sangina Baidya qualifies for Olympics. The Himalayan Times. 2004. 11 January 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130202001203/http://thehimalayantimes.com/10years/veterans.php?Vid=NDI3. 2 February 2013.
  6. News: Lin. Chieh-yu. Taekwondo team wins two gold medals. Taipei Times. 27 August 2004. 23 December 2014.
  7. Web site: Taekwondo – Women's Flyweight (49kg/108lbs) Repechage Round 1. Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 12 August 2004. 24 September 2013.
  8. News: Colombiana Mora pierde el bronce ante taiwanesa. Colombia's Mora lost the bronze to Thai. es. Caracol Television. 26 August 2004. 13 January 2015.