Dalia Contreras

Dalia Contreras

2008 Summer Olympics - Sumeyye Gulec (GER, blue) v. Dalia Contreras (VEN, red)
Personal information
Born	September 20, 1983
Medal record Women's Taekwondo Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 49 kg World Championships 2001 Jeju Finweight (47 kg) 2003 Garmisch Finweight (47 kg) Pan American Games 2003 Santo Domingo 49 kg Central American and Caribbean Games[1] 2002 San Salvador Finweight (47 kg) 2006 Cartagena Finweight (47 kg) South American Games 2006 Buenos Aires Finweight (47 kg)

Dalia María Contreras Rivero (born September 20, 1983) is a Venezuelan taekwondo practitioner. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in taekwondo.^[2] She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing 8th in her weight class.^[3]

She won a Silver Medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo^[4]

In the 2002 South American Games in Brazil she finished in the second place in her category (Finweight –47 kg), but the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR) gave only Gold Medal in that category.^[5] Finally, in the 2006 South American Games in Buenos Aires she won the Gold Medal.^[6] Notwithstanding, that year ODESUR gave the silver and bronze medals

Olympic results

2004

• Finish in 8th.

2008

• Finish in 3rd, bronze Medal

References

1. “Abanderado por el Pueblo” tiene 20 candidatos from ABN, 9 July 2008
2. China wins women's under 49 kg taekwondo from the associated press, 20 August 2008
3. Dalia Contreras at sports-reference.com
4. 14th Pan American Games -- Taekwondo at usa-taekwondo.us
5. Rio: Taekondo Brasileiro conquista mais tres ouros e mantem duelo com Venezuela from Comite Olimpico Brasileiro, 9 August 2002
6. Resultados de la octava jornada de los VIII Juegos Odesur Buenos Aires-2006 from Terra/AFP