Bianca Walkden
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  | ||
| Women's taekwondo | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | +67 kg |
| World Championships | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2015 Chelyabinsk | +73 kg |
| 2017 Muju | +73 kg |
| Grand Prix | ||
| 2016 Baku | +67 kg |
| 2017 Moscow | +67 kg |
| 2017 Rabat | +67 kg |
| 2017 London | +67 kg |
| 2017 Abidjan | +67 kg |
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2015 Samsun | +67 kg |
| 2015 Manchester | +67 kg |
| 2018 Taoyuan | +67 kg |
| 2014 Suzhou | +67 kg |
| 2015 Moscow | +67 kg |
| 2018 Rome | +67 kg |
| European Championships | ||
| 2016 Montreux | +73 kg |
| 2014 Baku | +73 kg |
| 2018 Kazan | +73 kg |
| 2010 Saint Petersburg | +73 kg |
| World Junior Championships | ||
| 2008 Izmir | +68 kg |
| European Junior Championships | ||
| 2007 Baku | +68 kg |
Bianca Walkden (born 29 September 1991) is a British taekwondo practitioner and a member of the GB Taekwondo Academy.[1] She represented Great Britain at 2016 Olympic Games winning a bronze medal.[2] Walkden is a twice World champion, twice European champion, and twice World Grand Prix Final champion in her division. In 2017 she became the first practitioner ever to win all 4 Grand Prix events in her division in a single season (having also won the one-off Grand Prix Final in London of the truncated 2016 season)
In May 2015 she won the gold medal in the +73kg category at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships in Russia beating Gwladys Epangue in the final. She became only the second Briton to win a world title after Sarah Stevenson in 2001 and 2011, and the third to win a global title after Stevenson and Jade Jones' Olympic success in 2012.[3]
In June 2017, Walkden successfully defended her world title in Muju, South Korea during the 2017 Muju WTF World Taekwondo Championship. She beat American Jackie Galloway 14-4 in the heavyweight division. She joins Jade Jones as the only British practitioners to defend a global title, and becoming the only Briton to successfully defend a World title in taekwondo.
References
- ↑ Glean, Amelia. "Who is Bianca Walkden's boyfriend? GB star and Aaron Cook go for gold | Olympics 2016 | Sport". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: Bianca Walkden wins bronze, Mahama Cho misses out". BBC Sport. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ↑ "Bianca Walkden is GB's second ever World Taekwondo champion". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 May 2015.