{{short description|Danish/Hungarian taekwondo practitioner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Gergely Salim | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1 April 1972 | birth_place = Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania | headercolor = lightsteelblue | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport| Men's taekwondo }} {{MedalCountry | {{DEN}} }} {{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games (demonstration) }} {{MedalGold | 1992 Barcelona | 50 kg }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships }} {{MedalGold | 1991 Athens | 50 kg }} {{MedalSilver | 1993 New York | 50 kg }} {{MedalCompetition | European Championships }} {{MedalGold | 1990 Aarhus | 50 kg }} {{MedalGold | 1992 Valencia | 50 kg }} {{MedalGold | 1994 Zagreb | 50 kg }} {{MedalCompetition | European Junior Championships }} {{MedalGold | 1988 Ankara | 45 kg }} {{MedalCountry | {{HUN}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships }} {{MedalBronze | 1995 Manila | 54 kg }} }}
'''Gergely Salim''' (born 1 April 1972 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gergely Salim |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/901211 |website=Olympedia |accessdate=11 June 2020}}</ref> is a Hungarian-Danish taekwondo practitioner, but lives now in Los Angeles as an American citizen.
== Career == He started practicing taekwondo at the age of 8 with his oldest brother, Joseph Salim, at Gladsaxe Taekwondo Klub near Copenhagen.
In 1991, Gergely Salim won a gold medal in the finweight division at the World Taekwondo Championships in Athens. Next year, at the age of 20, he participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and won first place.<ref name="SR">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/TKW/mens-finweight.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630074359/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/TKW/mens-finweight.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 June 2017 |title=Taekwondo at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Finweight (August 5, 1992) |accessdate=1 October 2014}}</ref> He also won three consecutive European Championships from 1990 to 1994 for the Danish national team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.taekwondodata.com/gergely-salim.a4pi.html |title=SALIM, Gergely |website=TaekwondoData.com}}</ref>
Joseph also pursued a great career in the sport as he also was a 3-time european champion and runner-up at the 1991 world championship.
==Personal life== Salim was born in Tanzania to a Tanzanian father and Hungarian mother. He moved to Denmark at a young age.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hungarytoday.hu/ibrahimovic-favorite-hungary-first-olympic-gold-taekwondo-omar-salim/ |title=Ibrahimovic’s Favorite Eyes Hungary’s First Olympic Gold in Taekwondo |date=21 July 2021}}</ref>
In 2021, Salim's youngest son, Omar Salim, won the gold medal at the 2021 European Taekwondo Championships representing Hungary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teenagers take gold on opening day of European Taekwondo C.. [World Taekwondo] |url=http://m.worldtaekwondo.org/wtnews/view.html?nid=138051 |access-date=8 May 2021 |website=m.worldtaekwondo.org}}</ref> His daughter, Kamilah Salim, is also a taekwondo competitor, who also competes in steeplechase.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mtk.hu/hirek/atletika-kuzdosportolobol-akadalyfuto-lapszemle|title=Atlétika: küzdősportolóból akadályfutó (LAPSZEMLE)|website=MTK.hu}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Olympics.com|gergely-salim}} * {{InterSportStats}}
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