Sarah Stevenson
Sarah Diana Stevenson, MBE (born 30 March 1983, Doncaster) 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 medalist at the Olympics in this sport. She took silver at the Olympic qualifiers despite suffering a broken hand.
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