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Belgian taekwondo practitioner

Jaouad Achab

Personal information

Nationality

Belgian

Born

20 August 1992 (1992-08-20) (age 32)
Tangier, Morocco

Height

175 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

64 kg (141 lb)

Medal record

Jaouad Achab (born 20 August 1992) is a taekwondo practitioner from Belgium. He won the gold medal at the 2014 European Championships Men's 63 kg, and at the 2015 World Championships, becoming Belgium's first World Taekwondo champion.

In 2019, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's bantamweight event at the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, United Kingdom.

References

Vande Weyer, Philippe (8 May 2014). "Jaouad Achab, un passeport qui change tout" (in French). lesoir.be. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
"Jaouad Achab champion du monde en -63kg en taekwondo" (in French). rtbf.be. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
"Men's bantamweight" (PDF). 2019 World Taekwondo Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 May 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2020.

v t e Flemish Sportsjewel
1982 Annie Lambrechts 1983 Eddy Annys 1984 Ingrid Berghmans 1985 not awarded 1986 William Van Dijck 1987 Wim Van Belleghem 1988 Robert Van de Walle 1989 not awarded 1990 Ulla Werbrouck 1991 Sabine Appelmans 1992 Annelies Bredael 1993 Gella Vandecaveye 1994 Brigitte Becue 1995 Fred Deburghgraeve 1996 Luc Van Lierde 1997 Stefan Everts 1998 Sven Nys 1999 Marleen Renders 2000 Filip Meirhaeghe 2001 Kim Clijsters 2002 Kim Gevaert 2003 Benny Vansteelant 2004 Gino De Keersmaeker 2005 Kathleen Smet 2006 Tia Hellebaut 2007 Women's 4×100 metres relay team 2008 Kenny De Ketele 2009 Tom Goegebuer 2010 Cédric Van Branteghem 2011 Evi Van Acker 2012 Hans Van Alphen and Marieke Vervoort 2013 Frederik Van Lierde 2014 Bart Swings 2015 Jaouad Achab 2016 Peter Genyn 2017 Seppe Smits 2018 Nina Derwael 2019 Emma Meesseman 2020 not awarded 2021 Belgium men's national field hockey team 2022 Remco Evenepoel 2023 Lotte Kopecky 2024 Bashir Abdi

v t e World Champions in Taekwondo – Men's Bantamweight
1975: Son Tae-hwan (KOR) 1977: Kim Yong-ki (KOR) 1979: Kim Yong-ki (KOR) 1982: Kim Yong-ki (KOR) 1983: Han Hong-sik (KOR) 1985: Yoo Myung-sik (KOR) 1987: Yoo Myung-sik (KOR) 1989: Ham Jun (KOR) 1991: Ángel Alonso (ESP) 1993: Kim In-young (KOR) 1995: Chang Dae-soon (KOR) 1997: Huang Chih-hsiung (TPE) 1999: Ko Dae-kyu (KOR) 2001: Kang Nam-won (KOR) 2003: Huang Chih-hsiung (TPE) 2005: Kim Jae-sik (KOR) 2007: Filip Grgić (CRO) 2009: Yeom Hyo-seob (KOR) 2011: Lee Dae-hoon (KOR) 2013: Lee Dae-hoon (KOR) 2015: Jaouad Achab (WTF) 2017: Zhao Shuai (CHN) 2019: Zhao Shuai (CHN) 2022: Liang Yushuai (CHN) 2023: Hakan Reçber (TUR)
1975–1977: −58 kg 1979–1983: −56 kg 1985–1997: −58 kg 1999–2007: −62 kg 2009–present: −63 kg

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