Nationality Italy Role Olympic athlete Event(s) +80 kg Height 1.85 m | Coached by Yoon Soon-Cheul Weight 94 kg Name Leonardo Basile Club Centro Sportivo Esercito | |
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Born 12 May 1983 (age 40) ( 1983-05-12 ) Naples, Italy | ||
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Leonardo Basile (born May 12, 1983 in Naples) is an Italian taekwondo practitioner. In 2005, Basile had won two bronze medals for the over-84 kg class at the World Taekwondo Championships in Madrid, Spain, and at the Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey. He also captured a silver medal in the same division at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and eventually defeated Slovenia's Ivan Trajkovic for the gold at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, England. Basile is a member of the taekwondo team for Centro Sportivo Esercito, and is coached and trained by Yoon Soon-Cheul.
Basile qualified for the men's heavyweight division (+80 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing second from the European Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey. He lost the preliminary round of sixteen match to Cuba's Ángel Matos, with a score of 1–3.