Jolanta Tarvida

Jolanta Tarvida
Personal information
Nationality Latvia
Born (2000-02-08) February 8, 2000
Bauska, Latvia
EducationRīgas Tālmācības vidusskola
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Medal record
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Belgrade 67 kg
European U21 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Helsingborg 57 kg
Silver medal – second place 2018 Warsaw 57 kg
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Larnaca 57 kg
World Cadet Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Baku 44 kg

Jolanta Tarvida (born 8 February 2000, in Bauska) is a Latvian taekwondo athlete. Her older sister, Inese Tarvida, is also a taekwondo practitioner.[1]

Career

Tarvida started practicing taekwondo in 2006. She won the silver medal in the under 44 kg category at the 2014 World Taekwondo Cadet Championships in Baku.[2] In 2017, she won a bronze medal at the European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Larnaca, Cyprus.[3] The same year, at the 2017 European Taekwondo Championships – Olympic weights (G-1 class), she claimed bronze, sharing the podium with her sister Inese, who took silver.[4] Tarvida then won silver in the under 57 kg category at the 2018 European U21 Taekwondo Championships in Warsaw, and a year later became the U21 European champion in Helsingborg in the same category.[5][6] At the 2023 European Taekwondo Championships in Belgrade, she secured the bronze medal in the up to 67 kg weight class.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Fighter sisters: Inese and Jolanta Tarvida even sacrifice Christmas with family for sport". jauns.lv. 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Taekwondo athlete Tarvida wins silver at World Cadet Championships". lsm.lv. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Jolanta Tarvida wins European Junior bronze". lsm.lv. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Tarvida sisters win silver and bronze at European Taekwondo Championships". lsm.lv. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Jolanta Tarvida wins U21 European silver". lsm.lv. 10 November 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Jolanta Tarvida becomes U21 European champion". lsm.lv. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Jolanta Tarvida wins European Games bronze". sportacentrs.com. 25 June 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
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