Tran Trieu Quan was born on March 26, 1952 and he died at January 12, 2010. Tran was a Vietnamese-Canadian grandmaster of taekwondo and a professional engineer. He was President of one of the three International Taekwondo Federation groups from mid-2003 until his death in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Tran held the rank of 9th Dan black belt in taekwondo. He began his study of taekwondo when he was twelve years old. Tran attained black belt status by the age of 17, and was teaching taekwondo under his instructor, Kim Bong Sik. He immigrated to Canada in 1970, studying mechanical engineering at Laval University and establishing the first taekwondo schools in eastern Canada.
Apart from his extensive taekwondo activities, Tran operated Norbati Consultants Tran & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in building standards and project management for the construction sector. In 1994, Tran was imprisoned in Vietnam after a one-million-dollar sale of cotton to a Vietnamese state company, which he had brokered, fell through. He spent three years in prison before being released. Tran was promoted to 7th Dan on July 1, 1990, 8th Dan on December 3, 2000, and 9th Dan on December 22, 2008. He was appointed President of one of the three ITF organizations on June 13, 2003. Tran was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on business, and was staying in the Hotel Montana when it collapsed in a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010. Upon Tran's disappearance, ITF Senior Vice-President and Grand Master Pablo Trajtenberg were named Acting President of the ITF group that Tran had led. Tran's remains were found and his death was confirmed on February 12, 2010.
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