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Daniela Souza

Personal information
Full name	Daniela Paola Souza Naranjo
Born	(1999-08-27) 27 August 1999 (age 25) Zapopan, Mexico
Sport
Country	Mexico
Sport	Taekwondo
Event	-49 kg
Team	MEX
Medal record Representing  Mexico World Championships 2022 Guadalajara 49 kg Grand Prix 2022 Rome 49 kg Pan American Championships 2021 Cancun -49 kg 2022 Punta Cana -49 kg Pan American Games 2019 Lima -49 kg 2023 Santiago -49 kg Central American and Caribbean Games 2018 Barranquilla -49 kg World Junior Championships 2016 Burnaby -49 kg
Updated on 18 December 2022

Daniela Paola Souza Naranjo (born 27 August 1999) is a Mexican taekwondo athlete of combat or kyorugi modality. She won the gold medal in the women's flyweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.

She has won bronze at the World Taekwondo Junior Championships in 2016, the gold medal at the Barranquilla Central American and Caribbean Games in 2018 and at the 2019 Pan American Games in the –49 kg category.

She participated in the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, reaching the quarterfinals of the flyweight tournament. After advancing on a first-round bye, she defeated Bouma Coulibaly from Ivory Coast and Avishag Semberg of Israel before falling to two-time Olympic gold medalist Wu Jingyu.

She was born in Zapopan, but considers Tijuana her hometown.

Notes

1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Souza and the second or maternal family name is Naranjo.

References

1. "Taekwondo - Daniela Souza (Mexico)". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
2. Berkeley, Geoff (17 November 2022). "Mexico and South Korea strike gold again at World Taekwondo Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
3. "Mexico triumphs at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games". El Universal (in Spanish). 29 July 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
4. "Elías secures revenge to triumph in men's squash competition at Lima 2019". www.insidethegames.biz. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
5. "México se queda cerca del podio en tercera jornada de Mundial de Taekwondo de Manchester" (in Spanish). Periódico Noroeste. 17 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
6. Rubio, Eduardo (23 April 2019). "Daniela Souza feliz por dejar la categoría juvenil de Taekwondo" (in Spanish). Xeu Deportes. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
7. González Martínez, Rafael (27 July 2019). "Daniela Souza, primera bajacaliforniana con oro en Juegos Panamericanos" (in Spanish). Zeta. Retrieved 6 August 2019.

External links

• Daniela Paola SOUZA profile at World Taekwondo
• Daniela Paola SOUZA ranking at World Taekwondo
• Daniela Paola SOUZA NARANJO at TaekwondoData.com

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