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Leah Lawall

Personal information
Born	(2003-01-06) 6 January 2003
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Taekwondo
Event(s)	Freestyle Poomsae; Recognized Poomsae
Club	Budo-Schule Wiesbaden
Coached by	Kai Müller
Achievements and titles
Regional finals	2023 Innsbruck
Highest world ranking	7 (2024)
Medal record Women’s Taekwondo Representing Germany Senior European Championships 2023 Innsbruck Freestyle, f over 17 2023 Innsbruck Freestyle, team over 12 European Universities Games 2022 Łódź Freestyle, f over 17 European Universities Combat Championships 2023 Zagreb Freestyle, f over 17 Junior European Championships 2029 Antalya Freestyle, f under 17 European Beach Championships 2019 Antalya Freestyle, f under 17

Leah Lawall (born 6 January 2003) is a German taekwondo athlete and two-time European poomsae medalist.

Career

Leah Lawall started practicing the Korean martial arts taekwondo in 2009. Her taekwondo club had offered a class at her primary school, which she took part in and subsequently officially registered with her club.

Junior competitions

Lawall participated in her first major international competition as a junior at the 2017 Taekwondo European Championships in Rhodes, where she placed seventh in the freestyle team competition.

In 2018, Lawall participated in the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Taipei and placed seventh with the junior's team competition in traditional poomsae.

She became Vice European champion in the junior's Freestyle Poomsae competition (ages 15 to 17) at the 2019 Taekwondo European Championships in Antalya. That same year, she also earned a silver medal at the European Beach Championships.

Senior competitions

In 2021, Lawall, alongside teammate Adina Machwirth, competed at the European Poomsae Championships in Seixal, Portugal, and placed fifth in the freestyle category of the women's senior competition (over 17 years of age). She claimed the gold medal in the women's freestyle competition at the 2022 European Universities Games. In 2023, she earned another gold medal in the women's freestyle competition at the European Universities Combat Championships, held in Zagreb.

At the 2023 European Poomsae Championships in Innsbruck, Lawall lost to Eva Sandersen and thus became Vice-European Champion in the individual freestyle competition and, as part of the mixed team (consisting of five team members, at least two men and two women), won an additional silver medal in the seniors' freestyle competition alongside teammate Pia Hoffmann.

Personal life

Lawall is studying Sport Science at the German Sport University Cologne.