Cansel Deniz

Cansel Deniz
Personal information
NationalityKazakhstani
Born (1991-08-26) 26 August 1991
Stepnogorsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking2022 April World Taekwondo Ranking number 1.
Medal record
Women's Taekwondo
Representing  Kazakhstan
World Cup Team Championships
2018 Fujairah Mixed team
Asian Games
2018 Jakarta–Palembang +67 kg
2022 Hangzhou +67 kg
Asian Championships
2021 Beirut 73kg
2022 Chuncheon 73kg
Islamic Solidarity Games
2017 Baku 73 kg
2021 Konya 73 kg
Summer Universiade
2017 Taipei 73 kg

Cansel Deniz (Жансель Дениз, also transliterated Zhansel Deniz, born 26 August 1991) is a Kazakh taekwondo practitioner.

Career

She represented Kazakhstan at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the women's −67 kg and [1][2] at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, in the women's + 67 kg.[3]

At the 2018 Asian Games, she clinched a silver medal in the women's +67 kg event losing to South Korean Lee Da-bin.[4][5]

In 2023, she competed in the women's middleweight event at the World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan. She then took part in the 2022 Asian Games and won the bronze medal in the women's +67 kg.

References

  1. ^ "Cansel Deniz". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Кулачок ярости" [Fist of Fury]. express-k.kz (in Russian). 5 August 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Болельщики, отправившиеся в Рио-де-Жанейро с членами сборной Казахстана по таэквондо, связывают большие надежды с прекрасной ее половиной – Джансель Дениз и Айнур Есбергеновой [Fans who traveled to Rio de Janeiro with members of the Kazakh taekwondo team have high hopes for the female members of the team – Zhansel Deniz and Ainur Esbergenova]
  3. ^ "DENIZ Cansel". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Women's Taekwondo +67kg gold medal contest held at 18th Asian Games - Xinhua | English.news.cn". xinhuanet.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Asian Games: Kazakhstan's Zhansel Deniz secures silver". Inform.kz. Kazinform International News Agency. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.