Canary Viviana Marton was declared the Olympic champion… With hungra!
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La Flag of the Canary Islands Ondi on the tapestry of taekwondo in Paris 2024. Viviana Marton (Tenerife , 2006) boasted of his homeland after clearly winning Olympic gold in the -67 kg category. Before Serbia Aleksandra Perisic In two rounds (7-1, 4-2). The triumph of it, however, Not counted in the table of Spanish medals And S for whom Hungra, BA is of his parents ‘ descent. From the Hungarian Federation they provided them with facilities from the very beginning and opened doors for them.
The new Olympic champion, from Hungarian parents, I was born and raised in Tenerife from where I moved to Madrid at the age of 12 Next to him Twin sister LuanaHe is also a taekwondo and World champion -57 kg in 2023 With only 17 years, he in Paris has acted as a luxury ‘sparring’ on his way to gold.
Adriana Cerezo training partners at Hancock International School From San Sebaste ocean de los Reyes, both Vivi and Lua They compete for Hungary despite their Canary feeling And sepsis due to AIDS and The facilities that the Union of Hungarians has always provided to them.
Viviana and Luana Marton, the Golden twins of taekwondo
From the Soviets to the Golden twins
Known as Golden twins (Golden Twins), since they were little, they were both earthquakes. Restless by nature, before taekwondo They tried swimming, Football, Gymnastics, gymnastics, athletics. At the age of seven, they discovered martial arts of Korean origin. Her parents were glad that the girls were getting tired.
The final admiration came thanks to Jess Ramal and SoFi Mikkonen, his coaches, during the focus on the island. They did open training for the people and the martons were captivated by the energy of those sessions and They were clear that they wanted to go to Madrid to train with them.
“They had something special, especially in the way they understood taekwondo, to move forward and in their concentration. They were very small , barely reached my waist , but I could see with this look that they were going to do something big“, Sands told us months ago.
Two or three years after that first meeting, they received a call from their father. The family was ready to move to Madrid. At the age of 12 they moved to realize their Olympic dream Today this has become a reality on such a stage as the Grand Palace.
The beginnings of the Hancock twins are already far away when They were called “Soviets” because they were like robots: They told them what they had to do, and they executed it. Jess Sands after the iPod “hammer” for her strength. Since 2018, Viviana has won 48 medals in 56 championships or, what is the same, 166 matches with an 89% win rate.
Coach SoFi Mikkonen, Who was an Olympian at London 2012 and at the RO, He believes That “They can go as far as they want and break a lot of ropes”. At the moment, the Olympic gold medal is already hanging from Viviana’s neck and the Canarian flag was displayed at pars 2024 in A nice gesture that won’t take long to spread on social networks.
