Headercolor: | lightblue |
Levent Tuncat | |
Birth Date: | 29 July 1988 |
Birth Place: | Duisburg, North Rhine- Westphalia, West Germany |
Height: | 1.73 m |
Weight: | 58 kg |
Sport: | Taekwondo |
Event: | −58 kg |
Club: | TKD Center Laar |
Coach: | Cevdet Mutlu |
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Levent Tuncat (born 29 July 1988 in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German taekwondo practitioner of Turkish descent.[1] He won three gold medals for the 54 and 58 kg classes at the European Taekwondo Championships (2005 in Riga, Latvia, 2006 in Bonn, Germany, and 2008 in Rome, Italy).[2] [3]
Tuncat qualified for the men's 58 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing second from the World Qualification Tournament in Manchester, England.[4] [5] He lost in the preliminary round of sixteen match to Afghanistan's Rohullah Nikpai, with a sudden death score of 3–4.[6]