Amy Truesdale
Personal information
Born (1989-01-20) 20 January 1989[1]
Chester, England[2]
Sport
SportPara Taekwondo
Medal record
Women's para taekwondo
Representing  Great Britain
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo +58 kg
European Para Championships
Silver medal – second place2023 RotterdamK44 +65 kg

Amy Truesdale (born 20 January 1989) is a taekwondo practitioner who won Gold at the 2014 and 2017 Para Taekwondo World Championships.[3]

Career

She was born without a left hand or forearm.[4] She has been a competitor in Para Taekwondo since 2009.[5]

She won one of the bronze medals in the women's +58 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "ParalympicsGB squad for Tokyo 2020". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Chester para-taekwondo ace Amy Truesdale makes history with Tokyo Paralympics medal". Chester and District Standard. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "GB Taekwondo". Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "BBC". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Chester Standard". 27 May 2021. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  6. ↑ Berkeley, Geoff (4 September 2021). "Aziziaghdam claims comeback win as Naimova underlines talent with taekwondo gold". InsideTheGames.biz. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.


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