# Pia Hoffmann

Pia Hoffmann (born 14 September 2006) is a German taekwondo poomsae athlete and two-time European medalist.

## Career

Hoffmann started practising the Korean martial arts taekwondo in 2013 at the age of seven and trains at Bergstrasse Bensheim Taekwondo Club in Hessen, Germany.
In 2019, Hoffmann took part in her first international competition, the Belgian Open Poomsae in Hasselt, where she took third place in the individual cadet competition in traditional poomsae.
At the 2020 World Championships, she reached the semi-finals with a seventh place in the preliminary round, but did not qualify for the next round due to placing tenth in the semi-finals. The competition was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022, she took part in the World Poomsae Championships in Goyang, where she placed fifth with Ana Catalina Pohl and Helena Silberhorn in the junior's traditional forms team competition.
At cadet and junior level, Hoffmann became German champion four times, runner-up once, and bronze medallist once. She won her first German senior championship title with the freestyle team in 2022.
At the 2023 European Championships in Innsbruck, Hoffmann won a bronze medal in the individual junior competition and, as part of the mixed team (consisting of five team members, at least two men and two women), a silver medal in the seniors' freestyle competition alongside teammates Ana Catalina Pohl, Leah Lawall, Jules Berger and Julius Müller.
In 2024, Hoffmann competed for the first time as an individual senior at the Bulgaria Open in Sofia and claimed the silver medal in the women's traditional poomsae competition. In 2024, she competed as part of the mixed freestyle team at the World Poomsae Championships in Hong Kong, with which she placed fifth in the semi-finals and ultimately seventh in the final. She also competed in the women's individual poomsae competition, where she lost out to Japanese athlete Akari Shinano and thereby achieved a 17th place.

## Personal life

Hoffmann lives with diabetes.

## Tournament record

| Year | Event | Location | G-Rank | Discipline | Place |
| 2025 | Belgian Open | Lommel | G-1 | Freestyle Team | 1st |
| 2024 | World Championships | Hong Kong | G-8 | Poomsae Individual | 17th |
| 2024 | World Championships | Hong Kong | G-8 | Freestyle Team | 7th |
| 2024 | Belgian Open | Lommel | G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 3rd |
| 2024 | Austrian Open | Vienna | G-1 | Freestyle Team | 1st |
| 2024 | Danish Open | Skanderborg | - | Poomsae Individual | 2nd |
| 2024 | Bulgaria Open | Sofia | G-1 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd |
| 2023 | European Championships | Innsbruck | G-4 | Poomsae Individual | 3rd |
| 2023 | European Championships | Innsbruck | G-4 | Freestyle Team | 2nd |
| 2023 | French Open | Paris | G-1 | Freestyle Team | 1st |
| 2023 | French Open | Paris | G-1 | Poomsae Individual | 3rd |
| 2023 | German Open | Hamburg | - | Freestyle Team | 1st |
| 2023 | German Open | Hamburg | - | Poomsae Individual | 1st |
| 2023 | Swedish Open | Stockholm | G-1 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd |
| 2022 | World Championships | Goyang | G-8 | Poomsae Team | 5th |
| 2022 | Swedish Open | Stockholm | G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd |
| 2022 | Portugal Open | Portugal | G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd |
| 2022 | Portugal Open | Portugal | G-2 | Poomsae Team | 1st |
| 2022 | Danish Open | Skanderborg | - | Poomsae Individual | 1st |
| 2022 | Danish Open | Skanderborg | - | Poomsae Team | 2nd |
| 2022 | European Cup | Stockholm | G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd |
| 2022 | European Cup | Stockholm | G-2 | Poomsae Team | 1st |
| 2021 | Belgian Open | online | G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 1st |
| 2021 | Danish Open | Skanderborg | n. a. | Poomsae Individual | 1st |
| 2021 | Danish Open | Skanderborg | n. a. | Poomsae Team | 1st |
| 2020 | World Championships | online | G-2 | Poomsae Individual | PAR |
| 2020 | Austrian Open | Vienna | n. a. | Poomsae Individual | 3rd |
| 2020 | German Open | Hamburg | n. a. | Poomsae Pair | 3rd |
| 2019 | Belgian Open | Hasselt | n. a. | Poomsae Individual | 3rd |