Crystal Weekes
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Full name | Crystal Weekes González | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Bam Bam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Puerto Rican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | United States | January 14, 1998||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 161 lb (73 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | +67 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 20 December 2022 |
Crystal Weekes González is a Puerto Rican taekwondo practitioner. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's middleweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.[1]
Junior career
[edit]Weekes is a two-time junior world champion and two-time junior Pan American champion.[2][3][4]
Senior career
[edit]At the 2016 Pan American Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament she finished 2nd in the heavyweight division to earn a spot at the 2016 Olympics.[5]
In 2023, she competed in the women's middleweight event at the World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Personal life
[edit]She is from New York City, but has a Puerto Rican grandfather.[6] She holds the nickname of "Bam Bam."[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Berkeley, Geoff (19 November 2022). "Salim follows in father's footsteps with world taekwondo title as Božanić captures gold". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ Derek Alvez (2013-10-02). "Staten Island teenager Crystal Weekes gets her kicks in taekwondo". SILive.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ Staten Island Advance Sports Desk (2015-09-11). "Crystal Weekes wins gold medal at 2015 Junior Pan American Taekwondo Games". SILive.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ "Port Richmond's Crystal Weekes takes Taekwondo title in Costa Rica - Costa Rica Star News". News.co.cr. 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ Palmer, Dan (2016-03-11). "Two golds for Dominican Republic at WTF Rio 2016 Pan-American qualifier". Insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ "A Crystal Weekes González le dicen la Mike Tyson femenina". Primerahora.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ Por José Ayala Gordián (2016-04-17). "Crystal Weeks es la nueva cara del taekwondo boricua | El Nuevo Día". Elnuevodia.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
Categories:
- Puerto Rican female taekwondo practitioners
- Living people
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Puerto Rico
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- 1998 births
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Puerto Rico
- 21st-century Puerto Rican women
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Puerto Rican martial arts biography stubs
- North American taekwondo biography stubs