Vanja Stanković Explained

Birth Place:	Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Sport:	Taekwondo
Event:	Flyweight
Club:	Taekwondo Club Galeb

Vanja Stanković (Serbian: Вања Станковић; born 24 March 1998) is a Serbian taekwondo practitioner.^[1] She won a gold medal in the women's flyweight event at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships.^[2]

Born in Belgrade^[3] and a member of TK Galeb, she also won gold medals at the European U21 Taekwondo Championships in Bulgaria and the Belgian Open in the months preceding her win at the world championships.^[4] In 2019, she won the US Open G2 category event in Las Vegas.^[5]

Stanković won a bronze medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and also competed in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.^[6] She won her first match and was then eliminated by eventual gold medalist Merve Dinçel of Turkey.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vanja Stanković profile. taekwondodata.com. 29 June 2017.
2. Web site: Vanja Stanković je svetska prvakinja u taekvondu!. www.rts.rs. 26 June 2017. 26 June 2017. sr.
3. Web site: Vanja Stanković - Olimpijski komitet Srbije . 23 November 2022 . oks.org.rs . sr.
4. Web site: Vanja Stanković: Journey of Self Belief. Inside the Games. 28 June 2017. 27 May 2019.
5. Web site: Tekvondistkinja Vanja Stanković najbolja na turniru u Las Vegasu. 021.rs. 3 March 2019. 27 May 2019. sr.
6. Web site: Taekwondo Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220706132341/https://gdm2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/TKW/ResultBook/GDM2022_TKW_v1.1.pdf . 6 July 2022 . 6 July 2022 . 2022 Mediterranean Games.