Jesus Tortosa Cabrera

Spanish taekwondo practitioner Jesús Tortosa Cabrera is a World and European Championships medallist, and a Mediterranean Games champion. A former World title-holder at junior level, he competes mostly in the 54kg or finweight category, and is attached to Club Tortosa Arata as well as the Spanish national team.

Tortosa’s first major victory came at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Taipei, where the then-16 year old took gold in the 51kg division. He later secured another high-profile gold medal at the European Under 21 Championships in Innsbruck, a title he would claim twice more over the following three years. Despite still being a teenager, Tortosa made his senior debut at the 2014 European Championships, where he secured bronze in the 54g event. He returned to the city the following year for the inaugural European Games, this time taking home a silver medal to confirm his position among the top flight of European taekwondo athletes.

Tortosa has so far scored several medals at Grand Prix events, including silvers in Rome, Manchester, Taoyuan and Fujairah, and has been victorious at a dozen Open tournaments, including in Spain, Israel, Poland and the US. In 2016, he finished in second place at the European Olympic Qualification Tournament, and travelled to Rio de Janeiro to compete at his debut Olympic Games. That same year, he took silver at the European Championships in Montreux, before travelling to the 2017 World Championships in Muju to take bronze. Elsewhere, Tortosa was victorious at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona and won his first WT President’s Cup gold in Antalya in 2019.