Pia Hoffmann (born 14 September 2006) is a German taekwondo athlete, four-time European medalist and Vice European Champion in traditional poomsae.
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. Since 2025, she trains at Taekwondo Poomsae Team Bensheim, where she is also a coach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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. She also claimed a bronze medal with the freestyle team.
Personal life Hoffmann lives with diabetes.
Tournament record + Year Event Location G-RankDiscipline Place2026Austrian Open ViennaG-1Poomsae Team 3rdWT President's Cup LondonG-3Poomsae Team 1stLondon Open LondonG-1Poomsae Individual 2ndGerman Open WiesbadenG-1Poomsae Team 3rd2025European Championships TallinnG-4Poomsae Individual 2ndEuropean Championships TallinnG-4Freestyle Team 3rdBelgian Open LommelG-1Freestyle Team 1st2024World Championships Hong KongG-8Poomsae Individual17thWorld Championships Hong KongG-8Freestyle Team7thBelgian Open LommelG-2Poomsae Individual 3rdAustrian Open ViennaG-1Freestyle Team 1stDanish Open Skanderborg -Poomsae Individual 2ndBulgaria Open SofiaG-1Poomsae Individual 2nd2023European Championships InnsbruckG-4Poomsae Individual 3rdEuropean Championships InnsbruckG-4Freestyle Team 2ndFrench Open ParisG-1Freestyle Team 1stFrench Open Paris G-1 Poomsae Individual 3rdGerman Open Hamburg -Freestyle Team 1stGerman Open Hamburg -Poomsae Individual 1stSwedish Open Stockholm G-1Poomsae Individual 2nd2022World Championships GoyangG-8Poomsae Team5thSwedish Open StockholmG-2Poomsae Individual 2ndPortugal Open PortugalG-2Poomsae Individual 2ndPortugal Open PortugalG-2Poomsae Team1stDanish Open Skanderborg-Poomsae Individual1stDanish Open Skanderborg - Poomsae Team 2ndEuropean Cup Stockholm G-2Poomsae Individual 2ndEuropean Cup Stockholm G-2Poomsae Team 1st2021Belgian Open onlineG-2Poomsae Individual 1stDanish Open Skanderborg - Poomsae Individual 1stDanish Open Skanderborg - Poomsae Team 1st2020World Championships online G-2 Poomsae Individual PAR Austrian Open Vienna - Poomsae Individual 3rd German Open Hamburg - Poomsae Pair 3rd2019Belgian Open HasseltG-2 Poomsae Individual 3rd
References
External links
Pia Hoffmann at the German Taekwondo Union