Diana López (taekwondo)

Diana López
Medal record
Representing United States
Women's Taekwondo
Olympic Games
World Championships

Diana López
Diana López
	Houston, Texas, United States
Nationality	American

Diana López (born January 7, 1984) is an American Olympic Taekwondo competitor from Sugar Land, Texas. She represented the United States at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal.

Lopez has three older brothers, Steven and Mark who are also Olympians and Jean Lopez who coached Lopez and her other two brothers. Her family is originally from Nicaragua.

In 2005, Diana and her brothers made history by becoming the first three siblings, in any sport, to win World titles at the same event, when they did so at the 2005

Madrid, Spain

and in 2008, Diana and her brothers made history again by becoming only the second set of three or more siblings to all qualify for the Olympics.

She graduated from Kempner High School in 2002, and is a student at the University of Houston–Downtown.^[1] On August 10, 2013, Lopez married strength and conditioning coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets Joe Rogowski.^[2]

Competition record

2012 Olympic Trials (57 kg): 1ST
2008 Olympic Games (57 kg): BRONZE
2008 U.S. Olympic Trials (Feather): 1st
2007 Pan Am Olympic Qualifier: SILVER
2007 World Olympic Qualifier: Quarterfinals
2007 Olympic Trials (Bantam/Feather): 1st
2007 World Championships (Feather): BRONZE
2007 Sr. National Team Trials (Feather): 1st
2006 Pan Am Qualifier (Olympic Feather): GOLD
2006 Dutch Open (Feather): BRONZE
2006 Sr. National Team Trials (Feather): 1st
2005 U.S. Olympic Committee Female Athlete of the Month (April)
2005 World Taekwondo Championships GOLD
2005 German Open GOLD
2005 National Team Trials GOLD
2004 Olympic Alternate
2004 Dutch Open GOLD
2004 Senior Nationals BRONZE
2003 National Team Trials GOLD
2002 Brussels Indoor Open GOLD
2002 Dutch Open GOLD
2002 Pan American Championships GOLD
2002 World Cup BRONZE
2002 National Team Trials GOLD
2001 Junior Nationals GOLD
2001 US Open SILVER
2001 Mexico Open GOLD
2001 National Team Trials GOLD
2000 Junior Nationals GOLD
2000 Junior World Championships GOLD
2000 Olympic Team Trials BRONZE
2000 Fight Off for World Cup Team GOLD
2000 Korean Open BRONZE
2000 US Open Sr. Division BRONZE
1999 Junior Nationals GOLD
1998 Junior Nationals GOLD
1998 Junior World Championships GOLD
1998 US Open Jr. Division SILVER
1997 Junior Nationals GOLD
1996 Junior Nationals GOLD
1995 Junior Nationals GOLD
1994 Junior Nationals GOLD
1993 Junior Nationals GOLD
1992 Junior Nationals GOLD
1991 Junior Nationals GOLD

References

^ "Diana Lopez is Fighting for Olympic Gold". University of Houston–Downtown. June 6, 2012. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
^ "Congratulations, Diana Lopez!". USATaekwondo. August 13, 2013. Archived from the original on August 16, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2014.

External links

Diana López on
Twitter

Diana López at TaekwondoData.com
Diana López at
Olympedia

[1] "Diana Lopez is Fighting for Olympic Gold". University of Houston–Downtown. June 6, 2012. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016. Retrieved July 27, 2012.

[2] "Congratulations, Diana Lopez!". USATaekwondo. August 13, 2013. Archived from the original on August 16, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2014.

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