Gwladys Épangue, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Taekwondo practitioner
Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1983
Place of Birth: Clichy, Île-de-France, France
Profession: taekwondo athlete
Nationality: France
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
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About Gwladys Épangue
- Gwladys Patience Épangue (born August 15, 1983, in Clichy-la-Garenne, France) is a French taekwondo athlete.
- Representing France at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships in Madrid, she won the silver medal in the welterweight division, losing to Hwang Kyung-Seon from South Korea in the final.
- At the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships in Beijing, she won a silver medal, losing to Hwang in the final again. Épangue represented her country in the –67 kg class at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won a bronze medal. In 2009, Épangue won her first World Championship gold medal in welterweight at the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- In Round of 32, she edged out South Korean's favorite Park Hye-Mi, who demolished Icelandic champion Auður Jónsdóttir 22–1 in the first round, in overtime.
- In the semifinal match, Épangue beat European rival Sandra Šaric of Croatia, 2008 European Champion and 4-time World Championship medalist, 6–1. Épangue withdrew from the 2012 Summer Olympics because of injury was replaced by her compatriot Anne-Caroline Graffe.
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