Adriana Cerezo


Adriana Cerezo Iglesias is a Spanish taekwondo athlete. A two-time Olympian, she won the silver medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
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Career

In 2021, Cerezo won the gold medal in her debut at the European Taekwondo Championships, at only 17 years old. A month later, she qualified through the 2021 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
In the Women's 49 kg event in Tokyo, Cerezo defeated two-time Olympic gold medallist Wu Jingyu on her way to the final. In the final itself, Cerezo was leading with seven seconds remaining in the contest, before opponent Panipak Wongpattanakit scored two points, resulting in Panipak winning gold and Cerezo finishing second for the silver medal.
In 2022, Cerezo won a bronze medal at the European Championships held in Manchester in May of that year. In June's Grand Prix in Rome, Cerezo won her first gold in that event, beating Croatia's Bruna Duvančić in the final. Cerezo won the silver medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria in July.
She won one of the bronze medals in the women's flyweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
In 2024, Cerezo won the gold medal in the women's 49kg event at the European Taekwondo Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She beat Merve Dinçel of Turkey in the final for her second gold medal in the competition after her initial success in 2021. Later in the year, she took part in the Olympics for the second time. Cerezo missed the medals after losing in the quarterfinals to Mobina Nematzadeh.