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PATU Press – <\/strong>Mexican Daniela Souza became the first athlete from America to win a taekwondo world championship in the women’s Flyweight division, a result achieved in Guadalajara 2022 during the tournament that took place at the Metropolitan Aquatic Center in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her feat made her join a very select group of great legends of world taekwondo who have won at least one world championship in this division since the debut of women in this competition, held for the first time in Barcelona 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a review of the winners of this division in the 18 World Championships held in the last 35 years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barcelona 1987 (Fly -47kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pai Yun-Yao – China Taipei<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Se\u00fal 1989 (Fly -47kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woon Sun Yin \u2013 Corea del Sur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atenas 1991 (Fly -47kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arzu Tan \u2013 Turqu\u00eda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York 1993 (Fly -47kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Su-mi \u2013 Corea del Sur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manila 1995 (Fly -47kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamide B\u0131k\u00e7\u0131n \u2013  Turqu\u00eda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong 1997 (Fly -47kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chi Shu-ju \u2013 China Taipei<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edmonton 1999 (Fly -51kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chi Shu-ju \u2013 China Taipei<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeju 2001 (Fly -51kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee Hye-young \u2013 Corea del Sur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2003 (Fly -51kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee Ji-hye \u2013 Corea del Sur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madrid 2005 (Fly -51kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wang Yin \u2013 China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beijing 2007 (Fly -51kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brigitte Yag\u00fce \u2013 Espa\u00f1a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copenhaguen 2009 (Fly -49kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brigitte Yag\u00fce \u2013 Espa\u00f1a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gyeongju 2011 (Fly \u2013 49kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wu Jingyu \u2013 China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puebla 2013 \u2013 (Fly -49kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chanatip Sonkham \u2013 Tailandia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chelyabinsk 2015 \u2013 (Fly -49kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Min ah Ha \u2013 Corea del Sur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muju 2017 (Fly -49kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanja Stankovi\u0107 \u2013 Serbia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panipak Wongpattanakit \u2013 Tailandia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guadalajara 2022 (Fly -49kg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniela Souza \u2013 M\u00e9xico<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PATU Press – Mexican Daniela Souza became the first athlete from America to win a taekwondo world championship in the women’s Flyweight division, a result achieved in Guadalajara 2022 during the tournament that took place at the Metropolitan Aquatic Center in November. Her feat made her join a very select group of great legends of world taekwondo who have won at least one world championship in this division since the debut of women in this competition, held for the first time in Barcelona 1987. Here is a review of the winners of this division in the 18 World Championships held in the last 35 years: Barcelona 1987 (Fly -47kg) Pai Yun-Yao – China Taipei Se\u00fal 1989 (Fly -47kg) Woon Sun Yin \u2013 Corea del Sur Atenas 1991 (Fly -47kg) Arzu Tan \u2013 Turqu\u00eda New York 1993 (Fly -47kg) You Su-mi \u2013 Corea del Sur Manila 1995 (Fly -47kg) Hamide B\u0131k\u00e7\u0131n […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nDaniela Souza enters the select group of Flyweight World Champions. - PATU | Pan American Taekwondo Union<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patutkd.org\/en\/daniela-souza-enters-the-select-group-of-flyweight-world-champions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daniela Souza enters the select group of Flyweight World Champions. - PATU | Pan American Taekwondo Union\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PATU Press – Mexican Daniela Souza became the first athlete from America to win a taekwondo world championship in the women’s Flyweight division, a result achieved in Guadalajara 2022 during the tournament that took place at the Metropolitan Aquatic Center in November. 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