Dennis Bekkers
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2005 Madrid | Featherweight |
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2007 Beijing | Featherweight |
Dennis Bekkers (born 29 November 1980 in Den Bosch) is a taekwondo practitioner from the Netherlands.[1]
Bekkers competes in men's -68 kilograms class also known as the featherweight.[1] He won the silver medal at the 2005 European Championships in Riga, Latvia.[1] That same year he also won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Madrid, Spain.[1] In 2006, he managed to improve his European record by becoming European Champion, in Bonn.[1] In 2007, at the Pre-Olympic World Championships in Beijing, he won another bronze medal.[1] In 2008, at the European Championships in Rome, he won the bronze medal.[1] With this performance he managed to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Categories:
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Dutch male taekwondo practitioners
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from 's-Hertogenbosch
- European Taekwondo Championships medalists
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- 21st-century Danish sportspeople
- Dutch martial arts biography stubs
- European taekwondo biography stubs