Daniela Souza
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| Full name | Daniela Paola Souza Naranjo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 August 1999 Zapopan, Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | -49 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | MEX | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daniela Paola Souza Naranjo[a] (born 27 August 1999) is a Mexican taekwondo athlete of combat or kyorugi modality.[1] She won the gold medal in the women's flyweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.[2]
She has won bronze at the World Taekwondo Junior Championships in 2016, the gold medal at the Barranquilla Central American and Caribbean Games in 2018 and at the 2019 Pan American Games in the –49 kg category.[3][4]
She participated in the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, reaching the quarterfinals of the flyweight tournament. After advancing on a first-round bye, she defeated Bouma Coulibaly from Ivory Coast and Avishag Semberg of Israel before falling to two-time Olympic gold medalist Wu Jingyu.[5]
She was born in Zapopan,[6] but considers Tijuana her hometown.[7]
