Luisito Pie
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| Birth name | Luisito Pie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dominican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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March 4, 1994 Bayaguana, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic |
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| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | –58 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Universidad Nacional Evangélica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Miguel Camacho | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 2016 Summer Olympics: –58 kg Bronze | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Luisito Pié (Spanish pronunciation: [lwiˈzito pje], ; born March 4, 1994), also known as Luis Pie ([lwis pje]), is a Dominican taekwondo athlete who won the bronze medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 58 kg category.
Pie won the gold medal in the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games and silver in the 2013 Bolivarian Games, 2015 Pan American Games and bronze medalist in the 2015 Military World Games.
Pie is 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) tall 57 kilograms (126 lb), born on March 4, 1986 in Bayaguana, Monte Plata. He is the older son of José Beltrán, a Haitian, and Marisol Pié Desquile, who was born in the Dominican Republic to Haitian parents. Pié's father, an agricultural labourer in the Dominican Republic, lacked care for him and did not give him his surname. He was raised by his Dominican step-father Euclides Reyes and his mother.
He went to the Morayma Veloz de Báez High school and as of 2016, as of 2016, studies Physical education at Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña in 2015, before switching to Universidad Nacional Evangélica in 2016. Pie joined the Centro de Iniciación Deportiva Escolar (CIDE) led by Isaac Ogando, where he were signed after his participation in the 2012 National Elementary School Games, practicing track and field with the coach Francisca Tiburcio when he was ten but later the coach Héctor Rodríguez helped him to switch to Taekwondo one year later. He is a member of the Dominican Navy since 2011 with the lowest rank.
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