Adina Machwirth
 Adina Machwirth competing in 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Recognized Poomsae; Freestyle Poomsae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Budo-Schule Wiesbaden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Kai Müller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 14 (2024)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Adina Machwirth (born 2005) is a German taekwondo poomsae athlete and 2022 world bronze medalist.[2]
Career
[edit]Adina Machwirth began practising the Korean martial art of taekwondo in 2010 after initially training in ballet for three years. Machwirth competed in her first major international competition at the 2019 European Poomsae Championships in Antalya. There, she became European champion in the discipline of traditional forms with the cadet team (three-person team, female) alongside teammates Ana Catalina Pohl and Jessica Schober. She also competed in the freestyle pairs competition and the pairs competition in traditional poomsae, but did not reach the podium in those categories.[2]
In 2021, Machwirth took part in the European Poomsae Championships in Seixal, Portugal, finishing sixth in the junior women's freestyle competition and fifth in the freestyle pairs competition.[3] She won the freestyle pairs category of the 2022 US Pan Am Series I alongside Julius Müller.[4] At the 2022 World Championships in Goyang, Machwirth won a bronze medal in the junior's individual freestyle competition.[5][6]
At cadet and junior level, Machwirth has been German champion four times, runner-up three times and bronze medallist four times. She has been competing at senior level since 2023. In 2023, she became German champion in the senior's individual Recognized Poomsae competition as well as vice champion in the women's freestyle competition, behind teammate Leah Lawall.[7]
At the 2023 European Championships in Innsbruck, Machwirth competed alongside teammate Anna Siepmann in the women's individual competition. She won the first round against Camille La Cour from Denmark, but lost to Eva Sandersen in the round of 16, finishing ninth.[8] Machwirth also finished sixth in the individual freestyle competition at these European Championships.[9][10]
Tournament record
[edit]| Year | Event | Location | G-Rank | Discipline | Place[11] |
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| 2024 | Croatia Open |  Zagreb
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G-1 | Poomsae Individual | 3rd |
| Austrian Open |  Vienna
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G-1 | Freestyle Pair | 1st | |
| Danish Open |  Skanderborg
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- | Poomsae Individual | 3rd | |
| London International Open |  London
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- | Poomsae Individual | 2nd | |
| London International Open | London
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- | Freestyle Pair | 2nd | |
| Bulgaria Open |  Sofia
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G-1 | Freestyle Individual | 2nd | |
| 2023 | European Championships | Innsbruck |
G-4 | Poomsae Individual | 9th |
| European Championships | Innsbruck |
G-4 | Freestyle Individual | 6th | |
| French Open |  Paris
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G-1 | Freestyle Individual | 1st | |
| German Open |  Hamburg
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- | Poomsae Individual | 3rd | |
| German Open | Hamburg
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- | Freestyle Individual | 3rd | |
| Swedish Open |  Stockholm
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G-1 | Poomsae Individual | 3rd | |
| Swedish Open | Stockholm
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G-1 | Freestyle Individual | 3rd | |
| 2022 | World Championships |  Goyang
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G-8 | Freestyle Individual | 3rd |
| 2021 | European Championships |  Seixal
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G-4 | Freestyle Individual | 6th |
| European Championships | Seixal
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G-4 | Freestyle Pair | 5th | |
| 2019 | European Championships |  Antalya
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G-4 | Poomsae Team | 1st |
| European Championships | Antalya
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G-4 | Poomsae Pair | n. a. | |
| European Championships | Antalya
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G-4 | Freestyle Pair | n. a. |
External links
[edit]- Adina Machwirth ranking at World Taekwondo
- Athlete profile at the German Taekwondo Union
References
[edit]- ^ "World Taekwondo".
- ^ a b "Deutsche Taekwondo Union e.V.: Mitglied". www.dtu.de. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ "Deutsche Taekwondo Union e.V.: Europameisterschaft Poomsae". www.dtu.de. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ "2022 Pan Am Series". www.usatkd.org. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ^ "[World Taekwondo] [Results] Day 3_Goyang 2022 World Taekwondo Poomsae Champi." m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ Rodríguez, Laura López (26 April 2022). "Goyang 2022 World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships". MASTKD. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ "Taekwondo Poomsae". Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TalkFile_Day-1-Draw.pdf
- ^ https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/playerProfileV2?userId=11e7db8f-abb9-b53d-b791-0a52019ae5aa&month=3&year=2024
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20240420130717/https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/playerProfileV2?userId=11e7db8f-abb9-b53d-b791-0a52019ae5aa&month=3&year=2024
- ^ "World Taekwondo". www.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 20 April 2024.