Bineta Diedhiou

Bineta Diedhiou ( born January 8, 1986 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese Taekwondoin. It starts in the weight class up to 57 kg.

Diedhiou played their first international title fights in the adult range at the 2003 World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, she was disqualified in the class up to 55 kg, however, in the opening battle of. In the following World Cup in 2005 in Madrid, she managed the biggest sporting success of their career. In the category up to 59 kilograms, she reached the semi-finals and won bronze with her ​​first international medal. Diedhiou qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where she reached up to 57 kg Featherweight the quarter-finals, but was eliminated against Veronica Calabrese there and finished third in the final standings in ninth. At the 2011 World Championships in Gyeongju Diedhiou moved into the quarter-finals, where they defeated Jade Jones and her second World Cup medal just missed. The beginning of 2012 it secured the African Olympic qualifying tournament in Cairo to participate in her second Olympic Games in London in 2012, in the category up to 57 kilograms, she reached the final against Hedaya Malak.

At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in 2008 was Diedhiou flag bearer of the Senegalese team.