(1984-01-07) January 7, 1984 (age 40) Houston, Texas, United States
Nationality
American
Diana López (born January 7, 1984) is an American Olympic
Taekwondo competitor from
Sugar Land, Texas. She represented the United States at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she won a bronze medal.
Lopez has three older brothers,
Steven and
Mark who are also Olympians and Jean Lopez who coached Lopez and her other two brothers. Her family is originally from
Nicaragua.
In 2005, Diana and her brothers made history by becoming the first three siblings, in any sport, to win World titles at the same event, when they did so at the 2005
World Taekwondo Championships in
Madrid, Spain and in 2008, Diana and her brothers made history again by becoming only the second set of three or more siblings to all qualify for the Olympics.