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Henrique Marques (taekwondo)

Henrique Marques Rodrigues Fernandes (born 11 March 2004) is a Brazilian taekwondo practitioner. He won the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in the men's welterweight division, and competed for Brazil at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Career

He was a flag bearer for Brazil at the Youth South American Games in Rosario, Argentina, in April 2022. He won the gold medal at the event in the -80kg division. He won a bronze medal at the 2022 Pan American Taekwondo Championship.

He qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games at the 2024 Pan American Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in San Domingo, Dominican Republic in April 2024.

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris he competed in the 80kg category, reaching the quarter finals.

On October 27, 2025 he won the Gold Medal at the Wuxi 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in the M-80kg category, becoming the first Brazilian male taekwondo world champion. In his path to the title he defeated CJ Nickolas in the quarter-finals, and Artem Mytarev in the semi-finals, before beating Xiang Qizhang of China in the final.

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