🥋 Taekwon-dominance

It had been 20 years since the first and only time a Brazilian had stood on the top step of a podium at the World Taekwondo Championships. At the end of October, in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi, that two-decade title drought was ended when 22-year-old Brazilian featherweight Maria Clara Pacheco won world championship glory, beating South Korea’s Olympic gold medalist Kim Yu-jin in the final …

… And then Brazil broke the streak again three days later, as welterweight Henrique Marques helped himself to another gold medal.

Along with another two silvers, Brazil ended the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in …

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