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Roméro Hyman: Saint-Martin's taekwondo grand master

A short profile of Roméro Léopold Hyman, the taekwondo master who, according to the Collectivité, founded the Saint-Martin Tae Kwon Do Center in 1978; he was honoured on the sports Wall of Fame in 2021.

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Roméro Léopold Hyman is a taekwondo master from Saint-Martin who teaches the sport at a club in Concordia, Marigot, and was honoured on the Collectivité's sports Wall of Fame in 2021. The Collectivité's citation says he was born on Saint-Martin and founded the Saint-Martin Tae Kwon Do Center in 1978.

Illustrative: Concordia, Marigot, Saint-Martin

Illustrative photo: Remy Gumbs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Taekwondo

According to the Collectivité's Wall of Fame citation, Hyman founded the Saint-Martin Tae Kwon Do Center in 1978, is an 8th-dan black belt and holds the title of Grand Master. Faxinfo's report on the 2016 Saint-Martin Open listed the taekwondo club from Concordia as run by Jacques Hamlet and Romero Hyman. More island sport is in SXM Daily Sports.

Wall of Fame

In September 2021 the Collectivité unveiled its sports Wall of Fame at the Jean-Louis Vanterpool stadium in Marigot, with portraits of an initial ten figures from Saint-Martin sport. Hyman was one of them, Le97150, Soualiga Post and Faxinfo reported.

Sources

  • https://www.soualigapost.com/fr/actualite/40088/sports/le-wall-fame-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-install%C3%A9-au-stade-vanterpool
  • https://www.faxinfo.fr/sports-installation-du-wall-of-fame-au-stade-jl-vanterpool-de-marigot/
  • https://www.sxmbreakingnews.com/22/09/2021/5984/reconnaissance-sportive-installation-du-wall-of-fame/
  • https://www.le97150.fr/en/sports/wall-of-fame-un-hommage-aux-acteurs-du-sport-saint-martinois
  • https://www.faxinfo.fr/en/arts-martiaux-belle-prestation-des-combattants/

Source: https://www.soualigapost.com/fr/actualite/40088/sports/le-wall-fame-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-install%C3%A9-au-stade-vanterpool

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