Leonardo Basile
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Leonardo Basile (born 12 May 1983) is an Italian taekwondo athlete.
In 2005, Basile won two bronze medals in the over-84 kg class at the World Taekwondo Championships in Madrid, Spain, and at the Summer Universiade in İzmir, Turkey. He also won a silver medal in the same group at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand. He later beat Slovenia's Ivan Trajkovic for the gold at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Basile is part of the taekwondo team for Centro Sportivo Esercito, and is trained by Yoon Soon-Cheul. He made it to the men's heavyweight division (+80 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after coming in second at the European Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey. He lost a match in the early rounds to Cuba's Ángel Matos.
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