Son Tae-jin

Son Tae -jin (Korean 손태진; born 5 May 1988 in Gyeongsan ) is a South Korean Taekwondo. It was 2008 Olympic champion at featherweight.

His first international success came Son at the Junior Asia Cup 2005 in Almaty, he won in the category up to 63 kg the title. In 2007 he qualified at the International Olympic qualifying tournament in Manchester for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Ahead he sat down team internally surprisingly against Song Myeong- seob by. In the Olympic tournament Son moved in the class up to 68 kg with wins over Dennis Bekkers, Servet Tazegül and Sung Yu- Chi to the final, where he beat just Mark Lopez and Olympic champion. In the years after the games Son not made ​​it into the national team and played no further international title fights.