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Nationality | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Duisburg, North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany |
29 July 1988 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 58 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | TKD Center Laar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Cevdet Mutlu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Levent Tuncat (born July 29, 1988 in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German taekwondo practitioner of Turkish descent. 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).
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. He lost in the preliminary round of sixteen match to Afghanistan's Rohullah Nikpai, with a sudden death score of 3–4.