Lucija Zaninović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Croatian taekwondo practitioner
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Place of Birth: Split, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia
About Lucija Zaninović
- Lucija Zaninovic (born 26 June 1987 in Split) is a Croatian taekwondo practitioner.
- She is the twin sister of taekwondo practitioner Ana Zaninovic. Zaninovic won the gold medal in the women's flyweight class at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships held in Saint Petersburg.
- Zaninovic qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics after winning the silver medal in the women's 49 kg class at the 2011 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Baku.
- She withdrew in the final match against Olympic champion Wu Jingyu and was the only European to qualify through the Qualification Tournament.
- In 2012, she defended the European title in the women's flyweight class after defeating Kristina Kim at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships held in Manchester.
- At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she defeated Seulki Kang and Carola Malvina López before losing to Wu Jingyu in the semi-finals.
- She won the bronze medal after defeating Jannet Alegría in the sudden death round of the bronze medal match.
- This was the third medal for Croatia at the Olympics in taekwondo, after Martina Zubcic and Sandra Šaric who also won the bronze four years before in Beijing.
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