Viviana Márton | |
Headercolor: | lightblue |
Nationality: | Hungarian, Spanish |
Birth Date: | 16 February 2006[1] |
Birth Place: | Tenerife, Spain |
Club: | Hankuk International School |
Coach: | Suvi Mikkonen |
Country: | Hungary |
Sport: | Taekwondo |
Weight Class: | Featherweight |
Viviana Márton Kiss (born 16 February 2006) is a Hungarian taekwondo athelete. She won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 67 kg in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.
The daughter of Zsolt and Barbara Márton, her father formerly did kickboxing in Budapest and her mother played handball. Her parents moved to the Canary Islands in the early 2000s. She was born in Tenerife, and moved to Madrid in 2018.[2]
She trained at the Hankuk club in Madrid and where she was coached by Finnish former Olympic Taekwondo practitioner Suvi Mikkonen.[2] [3] In 2024, she transferred to Újpesti TE in Budapest, Hungary.[4]
She won the 2021 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Sarajevo, beating Greek Theopoula Sarvanaki in the final of the −63 kg division.[5] [6]
She won gold at the Junior European Championships in taekwondo in Tallinn in August 2023 defeating Croat Dora Meštrović in the final of the 63kg division.[7]
She won the 2023 European U21 Taekwondo Championships 62kg title in Bucharest in November 2023, defeating her sister Luana in the final.[8]
She qualified for the Taekwondo at the 2023 European Games – Women's 67 kg in Kraków.[9]
She reached the quarterfinals of the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's lightweight event in Baku.
She competed at the at the 2024 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, and qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in the Women's −67 kg division.[10] [11] [12]
On 9 August 2024 she won the gold medal at the Women's 67 kg weight category, also known as welterweight, after winning four fights and defeating the serbian Aleksandra Perišić in the final by 2–0.
She has a twin sister, Luana Márton, who also competes internationally in Taekwondo.[2]