Career
At the age of 15 she secured a spot on her first senior National Team competing at the 2001 World Championships in Jeju, of Korea. Missing out on the 2004 Athens Olympics, she backed her disappointment with a bronze medal at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships in the Lightweight (up to 63 kg) division. She has also competed in the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships competing in the bantamweight and welterweight, winning two fights, the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships finishing in the round of 16, and the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships in the lightweight division, losing to Marina Sumić in the quarter finals
Marton secured a bronze at the 2011 Universiade Games in Shenzhen, China.
In September 2011 she secured the under 67 kg division for Australia at the Oceania Olympic Qualification Tournament.
Carmen qualified for the Rio Olympics, which will be her third Olympics as a competitor. Marton is engaged to fellow Olympic taekwondo athlete Safwan Khalil, whom she met while she was a teenager.
The pair were Australia"s only taekwondo representatives at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Marton narrowly missed out on winning a bronze medal. She describes her conversion as a natural progression: " stories are the same was really surprising to me".
Marton"s father is a Polish taekwondo exponent and introduced her to the sport.
She has a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science degree from Deakin University and was a former state volleyballer. Her personal motto is ‘hard work and ambition overtake natural ability.’.