Gergely Salim
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| Born | April 1, 1972 (age 52) Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gergely Salim (born April 1, 1972 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania)[1] is a Hungarian-Danish taekwondo practitioner, but lives now in Los Angeles as an American citizen.
Career
[edit]He started practicing taekwondo at the age of 8 with his oldet brother, Joseph Salim, at Gladsaxe Taekwondo Klub near Copenhagen.
In 1991, Gergely Salim won a gold medal in the finweight division at the World Taekwondo Championships in Athens. Next year, at the age of 20, he participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and won first place.[2] He also won three consecutive European Championships from 1990 to 1994 for the Danish national team.[3]
Joseph also pursued a great career in the sport as he also was a 3-time european champion and runner-up at the 1991 world championship.
Personal life
[edit]Salim was born in Tanzania to a Tanzanian father and Hungarian mother. He moved to Denmark at a young age.[4] In 2021, Salim's youngest son, Omar Salim, won the gold medal at the 2021 European Taekwondo Championships representing Hungary.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gergely Salim". Olympedia.org. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Taekwondo at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Finweight (August 5, 1992)". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
- ^ "SALIM, Gergely". TaekwondoData.com.
- ^ "Ibrahimovic's Favorite Eyes Hungary's First Olympic Gold in Taekwondo". July 21, 2021.
- ^ "Teenagers take gold on opening day of European Taekwondo C.. [World Taekwondo]". m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- Danish male taekwondo practitioners
- Hungarian male taekwondo practitioners
- Olympic medalists in taekwondo
- Olympic gold medalists for Denmark
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- European Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Dar es Salaam
- Tanzanian emigrants to Denmark
- Tanzanian emigrants to Hungary
- Danish emigrants to Hungary
- Danish people of Tanzanian descent
- Danish people of Hungarian descent
- Hungarian people of Tanzanian descent
- Tanzanian people of Hungarian descent