Vanja Stanković
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| Born | 24 March 1998 (age 27) Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Serbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Flyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Taekwondo Club Galeb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vanja Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Вања Станковић; born 24 March 1998) is a Serbian taekwondo practitioner.[1] She won a gold medal in the women's flyweight event at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships.[2]
Beginnings
[edit]Born in Belgrade[3] and a member of TK Galeb, Stanković was trained by Dragan Jović and Uroš Todorović. She studied at the Sports Gymnasium in Belgrade, from where she graduated in 2017.[4]
Career
[edit]In the months preceding her win at the World Championships, Stanković won gold medals at the European under-21 Taekwondo Championships in Bulgaria and the Belgian Open.[5]
In June 2017, Stanković participated in the women's flyweight class (up to 49 kg) at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships. She defeated Olympic bronze medallist Patimat Abakarova of Azerbaijan in her first match, going on to defeat another Olympic bronze medallist, Panipak Wongpattanakit of Thailand, in the final to become World Champion. Her gold medal was Serbia's first-ever gold medal at the World Championships.[4]
Stanković won a bronze medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, where she reached the semi-finals of the women's 49 kg event before losing to Kristina Tomić of Croatia.[6] In 2019, she won the US Open G2 category event in Las Vegas in the women's 49 kg event, winning all five of her bouts including the final against German Ela Aydin.[7] She also competed in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.[8] She won her first match and was then eliminated by eventual gold medalist Merve Dinçel of Turkey.[8]
In August 2023, Stanković won a gold medal in the European Championships Olympic Weight Categories in Tallinn, Estonia, in the women's 49 kg category.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Vanja Stanković profile". taekwondodata.com. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ^ "Vanja Stanković je svetska prvakinja u taekvondu!". www.rts.rs (in Serbian). 26 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ^ "Vanja Stanković - Olimpijski komitet Srbije". oks.org.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ a b Radenković, Milica (28 June 2017). "Vanja Stanković: Šampionka maturantkinja". danas.rs (in Bosnian). Retrieved 21 April 2025.
- ^ "Vanja Stanković: Journey of Self Belief". Inside the Games. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ "Majdovu srebro, Stanković bronzana". mondo.rs (in Bosnian). 29 June 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
- ^ "Tekvondistkinja Vanja Stanković najbolja na turniru u Las Vegasu". 021.rs (in Serbian). 3 March 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Taekwondo Results Book" (PDF). 2022 Mediterranean Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ "Tekvondistkinja Vanja Stanković osvojila zlato, Srbija najuspešnija na EP". telegraf.rs (in Bosnian). 27 August 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- Martial artists from Belgrade
- Serbian female taekwondo practitioners
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Serbia
- Mediterranean Games medalists in taekwondo
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- 21st-century Serbian sportswomen