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Ukrainian taekwondo practitioner (born 1999)
Kostiantyn Kostenevych
 Kostenevych and his coach Nam in Tallinn in 2023
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| Full name
| Kostiantyn Dmytrovych Kostenevych
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| Nationality
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Ukraine
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| Born
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1999-06-25
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25 June 1999
(age 24)
Kharkiv
,
Ukraine
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| Sport
| Taekwondo
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| Event
| 80 kg
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| Club
| ShVSM (Kyiv)
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| Coached by
| Oleh Nam
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Kostiantyn Dmytrovych Kostenevych
(
Ukrainian
:
Костянтин Дмитрович Костеневич
; born 25 June 1999 in
Kharkiv
) is a Ukrainian
taekwondo
practitioner. He is 2024 European Championships silver medalist.
Career
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First World Championships Kostenevych competed at was the
2019 tournament
. In Manchester, he defeated
Kim Jee-seok
from South Korea but lost in the round of 32 to Mexican
Rene Lizarraga
. The
next World Championships
was more successful. He reached quarterfinals by defeating
Yarobis Castaneda
from Cuba,
Faysal Sawadogo
from Burkina Faso, and
Richard Ordemann
from Norway, but after that he lost to
Seif Eissa
from Egypt.
In 2023, Kostenevych represented Ukraine at the
2023 European Games
. He defeated
Julio Ferreira
from Portugal but lost to Polish
Szymon Pi?tkowski
in the quarterfinal.
Kostenevych was selected for the
2024 European Olympic Qualification Tournament
, but he failed to qualify for the
2024 Summer Olympics
. In Sofia, he defeated Szymon Pi?tkowski from Poland but lost to Serbian
Stefan Takov
in the quarterfinals.
First major international success at senior level came in May 2024 when he won silver at the
2024 European Championships
in Belgrade, defeating in the semifinal "neutral"
Maksim Khramtsov
and losing in the final to 2020 Olympics bronze medallist
Toni Kanaet
from Croatia.
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