Diana López
American taekwondo practitioner
戴安娜·洛佩斯 · 다이애나 로페스
- Born
- 7 January 1984, Houston
- Citizenship
- United States
- Sport
- taekwondo
- Occupation
- taekwondo athlete
Diana Lopez (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.
She graduated from Kempner High School in 2002, and is a student at the University of Houston–Downtown. On August 10, 2013, Lopez married strength and conditioning coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets Joe Rogowski.
Competitions
| Competition | Year | Result |
|---|---|---|
| taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's 57 kg | ||
| 2002 Pan American Taekwondo Championships | 2002 | |
| 2005 World Taekwondo Championships | 2005 | |
| 2007 World Taekwondo Championships | 2007 | |
| 2012 Summer Olympics | 2012 |
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q290181 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.