Avishag Semberg
Avishag Semberg (or Abishag Samberg,[3][4] Hebrew: אבישג סמברג; born (2001-09-16)16 September 2001) is an Israeli Olympic taekwondo athlete.Semberg was born and raised in Gedera, Israel, to Israeli parents Oren Sermberg and Nili Cohen-Semberg, and is Jewish.[13] Semberg was conscripted to the IDF in 2020, serving as a lieutenant in the protection and engineering department of the Home Front Command, where she among other things performed kitchen and guard duty, and was also designated an "Outstanding Sportswoman" and allowed time off to train and compete.[20] In November 2016 Semberg won a bronze medal at the youth World Taekwondo Championships in Burnaby, Canada, in the 46 kg weight class.[20] In 2020 she won a gold medal in the European Clubs Senior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, in the 49 kg weight class.[7][25] With Wongpattanakit progressing to the final, Semberg got to compete in the repechage, where she beat 8th-seeded Trương Thị Kim Tuyền from Vietnam 22-1 to qualify for the bronze medal match against Turkey's 2010 and 2018 European Champion Rukiye Yıldırım, whom Semberg beat, 27–22, earning Israel's first Olympic medal (all-time, tenth) in the 2020 Summer games, and first in taekwondo.For weeks I sat at home and asked myself, ‘What’s relevant now?’ On October 7, we were at a competition in China, sitting in the dining room in shock, and saw the Jordanian team walking past and laughing.The world does not understand what is happening in Israel.”[32] In March 2024, she won the gold medal in the 2024 European Taekwondo Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the 49 kg weight class.[20] Semberg represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the women's taekwondo -49 kg category at the Grand Palais strip.
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