Alicia Brännback
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 August 2000 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sport | Taekwondo |
| Event | Recognized Poomsae |
| Club | Västerås Taekwondoklubb, Poomsae Team Elite Sweden |
Alicia Brännback (born 28 August 2000) is a Swedish taekwondo athlete and 2023 European Poomsae bronze medalist.[1]
Career
Brännback started practising the Korean martial art of taekwondo at the age of five and participated in her first international competition in 2015.[2][3] As a junior, she competed in the European Championships in 2015 and the World Championships in 2016. In 2017, she placed 6th at the World Championships in the pairs competition (one boy and one girl) in traditional poomsae. In 2018, she started competing as a senior and participated in the World Championships in Taipei.[4]
In 2019, she competed in the European Beach Championships in Antalya and won the silver medal in the women's traditional pumsae competition. She participated in the 2020 World Championships and the 2021 European Championships.[1]
Brännback won the silver medal in the first Taekwondo Poomsae European Cup in 2022 and thus qualified for the European Championships in 2023.[5] In 2023, after losing to Denmark's Eva Sandersen in the semi-finals, she claimed a bronze medal in the women's Recognized Poomsae competition at the European Championships in Innsbruck.[6]
References
- ^ a b https://poomsae.taekwondodata.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Sweden_Datei.pdf
- ^ Nyheter, S. V. T.; Kero, Julia (7 March 2014). "Far och dotter följs åt i eliten". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 November 2023.
- ^ "Västerås stad uppvaktar idrottsstjärnor på årets idrottsgala i Bombardier Arena". Mynewsdesk (in Swedish). 26 November 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
- ^ "15-åriga supertalangen sparkade sig in i landslaget". VLT (in Swedish). 29 January 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
- ^ Bergkvist, Jonas (9 September 2022). "Alicia Brännback säkrade EM-biljett". www.vasterastidning.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 November 2023.
- ^ https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TalkFile_Day-1-Result-Draw.pdf