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Olympic taekwondo practitioner
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Male
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Birth:
22 December 1977(Guildford, Guildford, Surrey, South East England)
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Biography
Matthew Francis Beach (born 22 December 1977 in Guildford, Surrey, Great Britain) is a New Zealand taekwondo practitioner of British origin. Beach qualified for the men's heavyweight division (+80 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after winning the Oceanian Qualification Tournament in Nouméa, New Caledonia. He lost the preliminary round of sixteen match to China's Liu Xiaobo, with a score of 1–4. Beach currently resides in Bogota, Colombia, where he is employed by the British Embassy as an immigration officer.