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| Born | (2006-09-14) 14 September 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Recognized Poomsae Freestyle Poomsae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Taekwondo Poomsae Team Bensheim e.V. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Alina Nikonenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 17 (2025)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pia Hoffmann (born 14 September 2006) is a German taekwondo athlete, four-time European medalist and Vice European Champion in traditional poomsae.[2][3]
Career
Hoffmann started practising the Korean martial arts taekwondo in 2013 at the age of seven and trained at Bergstrasse Bensheim Taekwondo Club in Hessen, Germany.[4][5] Since 2025, she trains at Taekwondo Poomsae Team Bensheim, where she is also a coach.[6]
Pia Hoffmann took part in her first international competition in 2019 at the Belgian Open Poomsae in Hasselt, where she won third place in the individual cadet competition in traditional poomsae.[7][8]
At the 2020 World Championships, she reached the semi-finals with a seventh place in the preliminary round, but did not qualify for the next round due to placing tenth in the semi-finals. The competition was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9][10]
In 2022, she took part in the World Poomsae Championships in Goyang, where she placed fifth with Ana Catalina Pohl and Helena Silberhorn in the junior's traditional forms team competition.[11]
At cadet and junior level, Hoffmann became German champion four times, runner-up once, and bronze medallist once. She won her first German senior championship title with the freestyle team in 2022.[8]
At the 2023 European Championships in Innsbruck, Hoffmann won a bronze medal in the individual junior competition and, as part of the mixed team (consisting of five team members, at least two men and two women), a silver medal in the seniors' freestyle competition alongside teammates Ana Catalina Pohl, Leah Lawall, Jules Berger and Julius Müller.[12][13]
In 2024, Hoffmann competed for the first time as an individual senior at the Bulgaria Open in Sofia and claimed the silver medal in the women's traditional poomsae competition.[8] In 2024, she competed as part of the mixed freestyle team at the World Poomsae Championships in Hong Kong, with which she placed fifth in the semi-finals and ultimately seventh in the final. She also competed in the women's individual poomsae competition, where she lost out to Japanese athlete Akari Shinano and thereby achieved a 17th place.[14]
At the 2025 European Championships, Pia Hoffmann beat Austrian athlete Anna Schneeberger in the semi-finals and thus became Vice European Poomsae Champion in the women's individual competition.[15] She also claimed a bronze medal with the freestyle team.[16]
Personal life
Hoffmann lives with diabetes.[17]
Tournament record
| Year | Event | Location | G-Rank | Discipline | Place |
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| 2025 | European Championships |  Tallinn
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G-4 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd |
| European Championships | Tallinn
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G-4 | Freestyle Team | 3rd | |
| Belgian Open | .svg/1280px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png) Lommel
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G-1 | Freestyle Team | 1st | |
| 2024 | World Championships |  Hong Kong
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G-8 | Poomsae Individual | 17th |
| World Championships | Hong Kong
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G-8 | Freestyle Team | 7th | |
| Belgian Open | Lommel
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G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 3rd | |
| Austrian Open |  Vienna
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G-1 | Freestyle Team | 1st | |
| Danish Open |  Skanderborg
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- | Poomsae Individual | 2nd | |
| Bulgaria Open |  Sofia
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G-1 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd | |
| 2023 | European Championships | Innsbruck |
G-4 | Poomsae Individual | 3rd |
| European Championships | Innsbruck |
G-4 | Freestyle Team | 2nd | |
| French Open |  Paris
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G-1 | Freestyle Team | 1st | |
| French Open | Paris
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G-1 | Poomsae Individual | 3rd | |
| German Open |  Hamburg
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- | Freestyle Team | 1st | |
| German Open | Hamburg
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- | Poomsae Individual | 1st | |
| Swedish Open |  Stockholm
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G-1 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd | |
| 2022 | World Championships |  Goyang
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G-8 | Poomsae Team | 5th |
| Swedish Open | Stockholm |
G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd | |
| Portugal Open | .svg/1280px-Flag_of_Portugal_(official).svg.png) Portugal |
G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd | |
| Portugal Open | Portugal
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G-2 | Poomsae Team | 1st | |
| Danish Open | Skanderborg |
- | Poomsae Individual | 1st | |
| Danish Open | Skanderborg
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- | Poomsae Team | 2nd | |
| European Cup | Stockholm |
G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 2nd | |
| European Cup | Stockholm
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G-2 | Poomsae Team | 1st | |
| 2021 | Belgian Open | online
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G-2 | Poomsae Individual | 1st |
| Danish Open | Skanderborg
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n. a. | Poomsae Individual | 1st | |
| Danish Open | Skanderborg
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n. a. | Poomsae Team | 1st | |
| 2020 | World Championships | online
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G-2 | Poomsae Individual | PAR |
| Austrian Open | Vienna
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n. a. | Poomsae Individual | 3rd | |
| German Open | Hamburg
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n. a. | Poomsae Pair | 3rd | |
| 2019 | Belgian Open | Hasselt
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n. a. | Poomsae Individual | 3rd |
References
- ^ https://www.worldtaekwondo.org/athletes/Ranking/contents
- ^ "Deutsche Taekwondo Union e.V.: Mitglied". dtu.de. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "European Poomsae Championships 2025 – Europe Taekwondo". Retrieved 16 April 2025.
- ^ "WM-Premiere im Nationalteam". bergstraesser-anzeiger.de (in German). 14 May 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "Unser Trainer Team – TKD Bergstrasse" (in German). Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- ^ "Unser Team". Taekwondo Poomsae Team Bensheim (in German). Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- ^ "Taekwondo-Poomsae-Turnier: Taekwondo-Club Hambrücken holt Medaillen beim Offenen Hessen-Cup Poomsae 2021". Wochenblatt Reporter (in German). 3 August 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ a b c "Taekwondo Poomsae". Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "[World Taekwondo] Result_WT Open Individual [F] Cadet Preliminary". worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "[World Taekwondo] Semifinal Results for Open Event Category". worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/competition/view.html?nid=138810&mcd=J06&sc=re
- ^ https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TalkFile_Day-3-freestyle-Poomsae-Medalstanding.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Sibylle (26 November 2023). "Poomsae Europameisterschaft in Innsbruck/Österreich - Tag 2". Taekwondo Aktuell (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "World Taekwondo". m.worldtaekwondo.org. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/European-Poomsae-Championships-Recognized-Results-Day-1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://europetaekwondo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/European-Poomsae-Championships-Freestyle-Results-Day-1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Germany, hessenschau de, Frankfurt (10 April 2024). Pia Hoffmann aus Bensheim: Die Kampfkünstlerin | hessenschau Sport vom 10.04.2024 (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2024 – via hessenschau.de.
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External links
- Pia Hoffmann ranking at World Taekwondo
- Pia Hoffmann at the German Taekwondo Union (in German)
