Sun Hongyi (born 28 July 1993) is a male

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 from China.

Personal life

He began the sport in 2007 at a school in

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, before attending

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Career

He reached the quarter-finals of the 2018 Asia Games. He competed at the 2019 World Championship in

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. He was selected for the Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's +80 kg after he won the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in

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in May 2021.

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* 1993 births Living people Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics Chinese male taekwondo practitioners Olympic taekwondo practitioners for China Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games 21st-century Chinese sportsmen {{PRChina-taekwondo-bio-stub