Anne-Caroline Graffe

Anne-Caroline Graffe

Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1986-02-12) 12 February 1986 Papeete, Tahiti in French Polynesia
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in) /5'9"
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Taekwondo
Medal record Representing  France Olympic Games 2012 London +67 kg World Championships 2011 Gyeongju Heavyweight 2013 Puebla Heavyweight European Championships 2012 Manchester Heavyweight 2010 St. Petersburg Heavyweight 2008 Rome Heavyweight Universiade 2011 Shenzhen -73kg Representing  Tahiti Pacific Games 2011 Nouméa +73kg 2011 Nouméa Team

Anne-Caroline Graffe (born 12 February 1986 in Papeete, Tahiti in French Polynesia) is a French taekwondo athlete.^[1]

Graffe took up taekwondo when she was 11 years old. She left Tahiti for metropolitan France when she was 18 years old.^[2]

She won the women's heavyweight title at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships, held in Gyeongju, South Korea, defeating South Korean An Sae-Bom 1–0 in the final.^[3]

She won the gold medal at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships.

Graffe, who had been training under Myriam Baverel at the Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP) for five years, had only been entered for the competition a month before the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics following the withdrawal due to injury of Gwladys Épangue. She was the first Polynesian to represent France at the Olympics Games. In her first Olympic competition, she was seeded number one. She cruised through the early rounds to reach the final, where she met Serbia's Milica Mandić. After a tight opening two rounds, Mandić opened up in the third and picked off Graffe with rapid kicks to the body and ran out a 9-7 winner.^[4]

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