Levent Tuncat
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| Nationality |  Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 July 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | −58 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | TKD Center Laar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Cevdet Mutlu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Levent Tuncat (born 29 July 1988 in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German taekwondo practitioner of Turkish descent.[1] He won three gold medals for the 54 and 58 kg classes at the European Taekwondo Championships (2005 in Riga, Latvia, 2006 in Bonn, Germany, and 2008 in Rome, Italy).[2][3]
Tuncat qualified for the men's 58 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing second from the World Qualification Tournament in Manchester, England.[4][5] He lost in the preliminary round of sixteen match to Afghanistan's Rohullah Nikpai, with a sudden death score of 3–4.[6]
