María del Rosario Espinoza, (born November 27, 1987 in La Brecha, Sinaloa

Sinaloa

Sinaloa officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 18 municipalities and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales....

) is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 taekwondo

Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...

 practitioner. Espinoza stands at 173 cm and weighs 69 kg.

Espinoza won her first competition in taekwondo

Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...

 at the 2003 Pan American Youth Championship in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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. Later she participated in Open tournaments in Canada

Canada

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, France

France

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, and Germany

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. She won the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships

2007 World Taekwondo Championships

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 in Middleweight (–72 kg) category defeating Lee In-Jong and also won the gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games

2007 Pan American Games

The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games, were a major continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to July 29, 2007. A total of 5,633 athletes from 42 National Olympic Committees competed in 332 events in 34 sports and in...

 in Heavyweight (+67 kg) winning over Brazilian Natália Falavigna

Natália Falavigna

Natália Falavigna da Silva is a taekwondo athlete from Brazil. She finished in the fourth place in the women's 67-kilogram category in taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics on August 26, and won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

.
She participated in +67 kg weight class in the 2008 Beijing

2008 Summer Olympics

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 starting with a victory over Tunisian Khaoula Ben Hamza by a score of 4-0, later she beat Swedish Karolina Kedzierska

Karolina Kedzierska

Karolina Kedzierska is a Swedish female Taekwondo practitioner. She started to learn taekwondo 1997. Kedzierska competed at 2008 Summer Olympics, where she lost to Natália Falavigna of Brazil in the Bronze Medal match.Kedzierska currently lives in Malmö and competes for GAK Enighet.-External links:*...

 4-2. In semifinals she qualified to the final defeating British former world champion and eventual Bronze medal winner Sarah Stevenson

Sarah Stevenson

Sarah Diana Stevenson is a British Taekwondo athlete from Bentley near Doncaster, England.Stevenson finished fourth on her Olympics debut in 2000 and after a judging error was reversed in the quarter-finals of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, she went on to win a Bronze medal, the first British...

 by 4-1 and culminate winning the gold medal passing over Nina Solheim

Nina Solheim

Nina Solheim is a Norwegian taekwondo practitioner who competed in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. In 2004, participating in the women's +67 kg division, she lost in the quarterfinals against Luo Wei of China after injuring her knee...

, earning the second gold for Mexico

Mexico

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in the Olympics