Mark López (taekwondo)

Mark Anthony Lopez ( born April 25, 1982 in Houston ) is an American Taekwondo. It starts in the weight class up to 74 kg.

Lopez was already five years old Taekwondo. He comes from a sports-loving family, his brother Steven is with two Olympic victories and five world titles the most successful athlete in modern Taekwondo, his sister Diana, world champion and Olympic medalist, and his brother Jean is an American coach and founder of the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston. Mark Lopez celebrated his first international success by winning a bronze medal at the Junior World Cup in 1998 in Istanbul. The following year he also won in the adult area, his first World Cup medal he won at the 1999 World Cup bronze in the category up to 62 kg. Other successes Lopez battled with silver at the 2003 World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and its far the only world champion title at the 2005 World Championships in Madrid. His biggest success so far sporty Lopez at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In the weight category up to 68 kg, he reached the finals with three wins, but lost there to Son Tae -jin from South Korea and won the silver medal. In today's class up to 74 kg Lopez was again able to win a World Cup bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Copenhagen. The qualification for the 2012 Olympics, he missed the team 's internal duel against Terrence Jennings scarce.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was attended by some Mark and his brother Steven and his sister Diana, and also won an Olympic medal. For the first time were able to win Olympic medals three siblings in a year in three different competitions.