Débora Nunes

Débora Nunes
Personal information
Full name Débora Fernanda da Silva Nunes
Nationality  Brazil
Born (1983-06-19) 19 June 1983
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport Taekwondo
Event(s) 57 kg

Débora Fernanda da Silva Nunes (born June 19, 1983 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian taekwondo practitioner.[1] She competed for the women's featherweight category (57 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after defeating tall American taekwondo jin Diana López for the gold medal at the Pan American Qualification Tournament in Cali, Colombia.[2] She received an automatic free pass from the first round, after Niger's Lailatou Amadou Lele had been disqualified from the competition. She lost the quarterfinal match by a decisive point from Croatia's Martina Zubčić, with a score of 2–3.[3]

References

  1. "Debora Nunes". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  2. "WTF Pan American Qualification Tournament Concludes in Success in Cali, Colombia". World Taekwondo Federation. 10 December 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  3. "Women's 57kg (126 lbs) Quarterfinals". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 7 December 2012.

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