María Isabel Nieto Mejías (born 25 August 1999) is a Spanish

karate (; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ), also , is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tī'' in Okinawan) un ...

ka. She has won multiple medals at the

European Karate Championships The European Karate Championships are organised by the European Karate Federation each year. History Events from 1966 to 1996 were organized by the European Karate Union. In 1961, Jacques Delcourt was appointed President of French Karate, which ...

. She also won a gold medal at the

2023 World Karate Championships The 2023 World Karate Championships was held from 24 to 29 October 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. Iranian team's visa problems The visas of 21 Iranian karateka were not issued for various reasons. These karatekas were present in the men's kata ...

held in Budapest, Hungary. Nieto competed in the women's 68kg event at the

2023 European Games The 3rd European Games (), also known as the 2023 European Games or Kraków-Małopolska 2023, was an international multi-sport event held from 21 June to 2 July 2023 in Kraków and Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Małopolska, Poland. It was the first ...

held in Poland. She won her match against

Halyna Melnyk Halyna Melnyk (born 25 February 1994) is a Ukrainian karateka. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's kumite 68kg event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. In the same year, Melnyk also won the gold medal in the women's ...

of Ukraine and she lost her matches against

Irina Zaretska Irina Zaretska (born 4 March 1996) is a Ukrainian (until 2014) and Azerbaijani (since 2015) karateka. She won the silver medal in the women's +61kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She is a three-time gold medalist in the w ...

of Azerbaijan and Anita Makyan of Armenia. She finished in third place in the elimination round and she did not advance to the semi-finals. Nieto lost her bronze medal match against

Alizée Agier Alizée Agier (born 7 July 1994) is a French karateka. She won the gold medal in the women's kumite 68kg event at the 2014 World Karate Championships held in Bremen, Germany. She also won the gold medal in this event at the 2019 European Karate C ...

of France in the women's 68kg event at the

held in Budapest, Hungary.

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Living people 1999 births Place of birth missing (living people) Spanish female karateka 21st-century Spanish sportswomen Karateka at the 2023 European Games European Games competitors for Spain {{Spain-karate-bio-stub