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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (2002-07-12) 12 July 2002 (age 22) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Lightweight | ||||||||||||||
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Leon Sejranovic (born 12 July 2002) is an Australian taekwondo practitioner. He was a bronze medalist at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships.
Early life
From Victoria, he started in taekwondo at three years-old. He attended Maribyrnong Sports Academy in Melbourne.
He developed his taekwondo at Notorious Martial Arts, before joining the Combat Institute of Australia National Performance Centre program for Taekwondo.
Career
He reached the last-16 competing for Australia at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships in Guadalajara. In 2022, he won gold at both the Oceania Championships and Tahiti Open.
He won the bronze medal in the Men's lightweight division at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in Baku in June 2023, defeating reigning world champion Daniel Quesada in the last 16 before he was beaten in the semi-finals by Croatia's eventual winner Marko Golubić.
In April 2024, at the Oceania Taekwondo Qualifying tournament, he secured a place at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
References
- "Leon Sejranovic". Taekwondo data. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- "Sejranovic breaks drought". Star Weekly. 27 July 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- "SEJRANOVIC WINS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BRONZE". Victoria Institute for Sport. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- "Leon Sejranovic hopes World Championships bronze will inspire new generation of Australian fighters". World Taekwondo. 4 June 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- O'Mahony, Ciaran (4 June 2023). "Sejranovic wins Bronze for Australia at the World Senior Taekwondo Championships". AUSTKD Media. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- Palmer, Dan (11 June 2023). "Australian Sejranovic says World Taekwondo Championships history is "surreal"". Inside the Games. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- Nag, Utathya (6 April 2024). "OCEANIA TAEKWONDO QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT 2024: AUSTRALIA SECURE FOUR PARIS OLYMPIC QUOTAS". Olympics.com. Retrieved 9 April 2024.