P. Dickson Wamwiri Wanjiku (24 December 1984 – 6 September 2020) was a Kenyan

taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

practitioner. Wamwiri qualified for the men's 58 kg class at the

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, after winning the championship title from the African Qualification Tournament in

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. He lost his preliminary match to defending world and Olympic champion

Chu Mu-yen Chu Mu-yen (; born 14 March 1982) is a Taiwanese Taekwondo athlete from Taiwan. He is the second Taiwanese athlete and the first male to win a gold medal at the Olympics, winning in men's under 58-kilogram class in Taekwondo at the Athens 2004 ...

of Chinese Taipei, with a final score of 0–7.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1984 births 2020 deaths Kenyan male taekwondo practitioners Place of death missing Place of birth missing Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Kenya Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics 21st-century Kenyan sportsmen {{taekwondo-bio-stub