Mauro Sarmiento

Mauro Sarmiento
Medal record
Representing  Italy
Men's taekwondo
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing 80 kg
2012 London 80 kg
European Championships
2008 Rome Middleweight
Universiade
2005 Izmir Middleweight
2007 Bangkok Middleweight

Mauro Sarmiento (born August 10, 1983 in Casoria) is an Italian martial artist. He represented Italy in Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 80 kg, and won the silver medal, upsetting two-time Olympic champion Steven López of the United States in the quarterfinals.[1] In the gold medal round he lost to Hadi Saei.[2]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the men's -80 kg taekwondo event, losing to Nicolas Garcia in the semi-finals, and then beating Nesar Ahmad Bahawi in his bronze medal match.[3]

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