Manuela Bezzola
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| Nationality |  Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 August 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 49 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Manuela Bezzola (born 12 August 1989) is a Swiss taekwondo practitioner.[1] She defeated Chinese Taipei's Yang Shu-Chun for the gold medal in the women's 51 kg division at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia.[2] She also captured a bronze medal in the bantamweight division (53 kg) at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia.[3]
Bezzola qualified for the women's 49 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing second in the European Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.[4] She lost the preliminary round of sixteen match to Charlotte Craig of the United States.[5][6]
