fullname event headercolor birth_place weight height sport birth_date article_title name
ineabelle díaz santana 67 kg #eecf 70 río piedras , puerto rico 67 kg lb 0 on 1.73 0 on taekwondo 4 january 1974 ineabelle díaz
 ineabelle díaz
ineabelle díaz

ineabelle díaz santana -lrb- born january 4 , 1974 in río piedras -rrb- is a puerto rican taekwondo practitioner , who competed in the women 's welterweight category .
she picked up a total of ten medals in her career , including two from the world taekwondo championships and a bronze from the 1999 pan american games in winnipeg , manitoba , canada .
diaz also competed for puerto rico in a demonstration event at the 1992 summer olympics in barcelona , and later attained a fifth-place finish in the 67-kg division at the 2004 summer olympics , narrowly missing out the nation 's first olympic medal since 1996 .
diaz made her official debut at the 1992 summer olympics in barcelona , where she trailed behind south korea 's jeung eun-ok 1 -- 4 in the 60-kg class during an exhibition taekwondo event .
in 1993 , she won a bronze medal in the same division at the world championships in new york city , before suddenly retiring from the sport .
six years later , she came out from an early retirement to pick up another bronze in the 63-kg class at the 1999 pan american games in winnipeg , manitoba , canada , but missed her bid for the 2000 summer olympics , where taekwondo officially became part of the sporting program .
at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , diaz returned from a 12-year absence to compete for her puerto rican squad in the women 's welterweight class -lrb- 67 kg -rrb- .
earlier in the process , she sealed a first-place victory over guatemala 's heidy juárez and guaranteed a spot on the puerto rico olympic team at the pan american olympic qualifying tournament in querétaro , mexico .
she first triumphed by a 4 -- 4 judging decision over morocco 's mouna benabderrassoul , before being downed by china 's luo wei in the semifinals with a score of 3 -- 5 .
diaz sought for puerto rico 's first olympic medal at these games , but slipped it away in a 2 -- 5 defeat to juarez in the repechage rounds , relegating her to fifth .
rising from puerto rico 's top olympic finish in athens , diaz put her retirement plans on hold , as she finished behind south korea 's shin kyung-hyeon in the heavyweight division at the 2005 world taekwondo championships in madrid , spain , and then crushed mexico 's sulayyil madrigal to earn her last of four golds at the 2006 central american and caribbean games in cartagena , colombia .
