Aaliyah Powell
{{Short description|British taekwondo practitioner (born 2002)}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's taekwondo }}
{{MedalCountry| {{GBR2}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}
{{MedalBronze | 2019 Manchester | 53 kg }}
{{MedalBronze | 2022 Guadalajara | 62 kg }}
{{MedalBronze | 2023 Baku | 62 kg }}
{{MedalCompetition|Grand Slam}}
{{MedalBronze|2023 Wuxi (Q)|67 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|Grand Prix}}
{{MedalBronze|2023 Paris|57 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|2023 Manchester (F)|57 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Games}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2023 Kraków-Małopolska|62 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{Medal|Silver|2024 Belgrade|62 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition | World Junior Championships}}
{{MedalGold | 2018 Hammamet | 46 kg}}
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Aaliyah Powell (born 25 October 2002 in Huddersfield) is a British taekwondo practitioner.{{Cite web |title=Aaliyah Powell |url=https://www.gbtaekwondo.co.uk/athlete/aaliyah-powell/ |access-date=13 December 2023 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Aaliyah POWELL |url=https://www.olympics.com/de/athleten/aaliyah-powell |access-date=2025-01-24}} Powell fought initially in the bantamweight competitions before moving up to lightweight. She has won World Championship bronze medals in both weight classes.{{cite web |title=Powell, Aaliyah |url=http://www.taekwondodata.com/aaliyah-powell.aonc.html |accessdate=12 July 2019 |website=taekwondodata.com}}
Career
Powell began practising the martial arts taekwondo at age nine, after having competed in dance tournaments as a child.
She won a bronze medal in the women's senior 53 kg competition at the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships, after being defeated by Tatiana Kudashova in the semifinal.{{Cite web |date=2023-12-02 |title=Aaliyah Powell versus Jade Jones as Yorkshire athlete bids for Taekwondo GP glory and Paris 2024 spot |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/other-sport/aaliyah-powell-versus-jade-jones-as-yorkshire-athlete-bids-for-taekwondo-gp-glory-and-paris-2024-spot-4431050 |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=Yorkshire Post |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-11-26 |title='I haven’t achieved the big goal yet so I’m focusing on that,' - world championship bronze medallist Aaliyah Powell |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/other-sport/aaliyah-powell-interview-huddersfields-world-championship-taekwondo-star-faces-battle-with-jade-jones-for-team-gb-olympic-spot-3931975 |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=Yorkshire Post |language=en}} Three years later, she won another bronze at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships, this time in the 62 weight class competition.{{Cite news |last=Berkeley |first=Geoff |date=16 November 2022 |title=Soltero wins world title on home soil as Chaari and Khodabakhshi triumph |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1130497/soltero-wins-gold-world-taekwondo-champs |access-date=16 November 2022}}{{cite web |title=Day 2 in Guadalajara Proves Golden for Belgium, Serbia and Mexico |url=http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/competition/view.html?nid=139601&mcd=C09&sc=ne |publisher=World Taekwondo |date=16 November 2022 |accessdate=16 November 2022 |language=English}}
In 2023, she again won one of the bronze medals in the women's 62 kg event at the World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku.{{Cite news |date=3 June 2023 |title=World Taekwondo Championships: Aaliyah Powell takes bronze in Baku |language=en-GB |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/taekwondo/65799736 |access-date=13 December 2023}} The same year, she won two bronze medals at Grand Prix competitions held in Paris and Manchester, respectively,{{Cite web |date=2 December 2023 |title=World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final: Aaliyah Powell beats Jade Jones on way to bronze |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/world-taekwondo-grand-prix-final-232738844.html |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-CA}} as well as one bronze at the Grand Slam Qualifier, held in Wuxi.
Personal life
Powell has passed her GCSEs. Since 2023, she is sponsored by Nike and is exploring careers in fashion and modelling.
References
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External links
- {{World Taekwondo profile|3949e5e3-aaab-4039-b07f-12e08d9b2e67}}
- {{World Taekwondo ranking|11e6eef4-612f-9d3c-92b4-12f817a4f090}}
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Category:British female taekwondo practitioners
Category:Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Category:World Taekwondo Championships medalists
Category:21st-century British sportswomen
Category:Taekwondo practitioners at the 2023 European Games
Category:European Games bronze medalists for Great Britain