Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz (born October 8, 1981) is a taekwondo

Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...

 silver medalist from Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

 in the Women's Under 49 kg event at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

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Diaz defeated Yaowapa Boorapolchai

Yaowapa Boorapolchai

Yaowapa Boorapolchai is a Thai taekwondo athlete who was the bronze medalist in the women's under 49 kg event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.She started competing in 2002...

 of Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 in the quarter-finals and Euda Carias

Euda Carias

Euda María Carías Morales is a female Guatemalan taekwondo athlete.She won the bronze medal in the women's bantamweight division at the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships, which was Guatemala's first World Championship medal in taekwondo since 1995 when Heidy Juárez won bronze in women's...

 of Guatemala

Guatemala

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 in the semifinals but was defeated in the finals by Shih-Hsin Chen of Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

to win the silver medal.

Diaz won a silver medal at the 2003 World Taekwondo Championships and a bronze medal at the 2004 World Olympic Qualification Tournament.