{{short description|Norwegian taekwondo athlete}} {{MedalTop}} {{MedalCountry | {{NOR}} }} {{MedalSport | Women's taekwondo}} {{MedalSilver | 2000 Sydney | 67 kg}} {{MedalBottom}} '''Trude Gundersen''' (born 6 June 1977 in Bergen) is a retired Norwegian taekwondo athlete. She was Norway's first and only taekwondo competitor during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and won a silver medal in the -67 kg weight class.<ref name=db-ol-TKD2000>[http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=25&sp=TKD "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Taekwondo"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080823081100/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=25&sp=TKD |date=2008-08-23 }} ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on August 9, 2010)</ref><ref name=olympedia>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/94146 |website=Olympedia |title=Trude Gundersen |access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref>
After the 2000 Summer Olympics she tried to continue the hard training in combination with her ambition to become a doctor. But in 2002 she quit professional taekwondo and focused instead on her medical studies.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Trude Gundersen |first1=Rolf |last1=Bryhn |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Trude_Gundersen |language=no |access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref>
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