Gabriel Sagastume
Personal information
Full nameJosé Gabriel Sagastume Ríos
Nationality Guatemala
Born (1982-01-05) 5 January 1982 (age 42)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Event68 kg

José Gabriel Sagastume Ríos (born January 5, 1982, in Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the men's featherweight category.[1] He picked up a gold medal in Panam taekwondo championships in Oranjsted, Aruba in 2000, and a bronze medal from the 2004 Pan American Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He was a two-time Iberoamerican champion (Barcelona 2003, and Querétaro 2005). He ended in 5th place in the 2005 world taekwondo championships in Madrid, Spain, and represented his nation Guatemala in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004, finishing in 5th place).

Sagastume made his official debut, as an 18-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he lost his opening match to Filipino taekwondo jin Roberto Cruz in the men's flyweight class (58 kg).[2][3]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Sagastume qualified for the Guatemalan squad in the men's featherweight class (68 kg), by placing third and granting a berth from the Pan American Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Querétaro, Mexico.[4][5] Sagastume improved his previous Olympic feat by dispatching South Africa's Duncan Mahlangu (11–7) in the prelims and Australia's Carlo Massimino (5–4) in the quarterfinals, before falling in a defeat to Chinese Taipei's Huang Chih-hsiung, who landed him a counterblow by a late surge to produce a 7–5 record.[6] In the repechage rounds, Sagastume gave himself a chance to campaign for his nation's first Olympic medal, but he was cautiously beaten by Brazil's Diogo Silva with a score of 10–12.[7][8]

Sagastume works for the sports and leisure council in Guatemala, is an international TKD referee, and works on an IOC outreach program that helps athletes to get their lives planified after retirement.

References

  1. ^ "Gabriel Sagastume". 28 December 2014. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  2. ^ "Sydney 2000: Taekwondo – Men's Flyweight (58kg)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 47–51. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Guatemala ofrece fuerte suma de dinero a atletas que obtengan medallas en Sydney 2000" [Guatemala offers large sum of money to athletes who earn medals in Sydney 2000] (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica: La Nación. 18 August 2000. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Athens 2004: Taekwondo – Men's Entry List by NOC" (PDF). Athens 2004. LA84 Foundation. pp. 2–4. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  5. ^ "La vista en Atenas" [The view in Athens] (in Spanish). Prensa Libre. 2 August 2004. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  6. ^ Lin, Chieh-yu (28 August 2004). "Team Taiwan takes silver in taekwondo". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  7. ^ "Taekwondo – Men's Featherweight (68kg/150lbs) Repechage Round 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Diogo Silva deixa bronze escapar em duelo com sul-coreano" [Diogo Silva left empty-handed in a bronze medal duel with a South Korean] (in Portuguese). Universo Online. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

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