Beth Munro

Beth Munro

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	23 June 1993 (1993-06-23) (age 32)
Sport
Sport	Para Taekwondo
Disability class	T44
Medal record Women's Para Taekwondo Representing Great Britain Summer Paralympics Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 58 kg European Para Championships Gold medal – first place 2023 Rotterdam 65kg K44

Beth Munro (born 23 June 1993) is a British parataekwondo practitioner from Liverpool. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the –58 kg K44 category. She won a silver medal and it was the UK's first Taekwondo medal.

Life

Munro comes from Litherland, a town in the north west of England. She received secondary education at Litherland High School. When she was born in 1993 she had a weakness in one arm. She had an ambition to get to the Paralympics and she was initially interested in Netball. She intended to switch to the javelin, but she was recruited two years before the postponed 2020 Summer Paralympics by Anthony Hughes of Disability Sport Wales to take up Taekwondo. The martial art which would make its debut as a Paralympic sport in the "2020" games in Tokyo.

She was classified to compete in the –58 kg K44 category.

Munro's first match was a 21–8 win over Palesha Goverdhan of Nepal which she won 21–8. In the second round she had a more difficult match against Gamze Gürdal of Turkey, but she won 34–22.

She won a silver medal after being defeated by Lisa Gjessing of Denmark. It was the UK's first Taekwondo medal.

External links

• Beth Munro at the International Paralympic Committee
• Beth Munro at ParalympicsGB