Wu Jingyu

Wu Jingyu

Wu Jingyu on a 2008 Somalia stamp
Personal information
Born	(1987-02-01) February 1, 1987 Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Country	China
Sport	Taekwondo
Event(s)	-49 kg
Club	Jiangxi Provincial Weightlifting and Combat Sports Administrative Centre[1]
Coached by	Chen Liren[1]
Medal record Women's taekwondo Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 0 0 World Taekwondo Championships 2 1 1 Asian Games 2 0 0 Asian Taekwondo Championships 1 2 0 Total 7 3 1 Women's taekwondo Olympic Games 2008 Beijing –49kg 2012 London –49kg World Championships 2007 Beijing –47kg 2011 Gyeongju –49kg 2015 Chelyabinsk –49kg 2009 Copenhagen –49kg Asian Games 2006 Doha –47kg 2010 Guangzhou –49kg 2014 Incheon –49kg Asian Championships 2010 Astana –49kg 2006 Bangkok –47kg 2008 Luoyang –51kg
Updated on 8 August 2012.

Wu Jingyu (simplified Chinese: 吴静钰; traditional Chinese: 吳靜鈺; pinyin: Wú Jìngyù; born February 1, 1987) is a female Chinese Taekwondo practitioner who won gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the –49 kg class. She also won several medals at world championships and Asian Games.^[1][2]

Biography

Wu Jingyu started training in taekwondo aged 12. Her signature moves are axe kicks. As of 2012 she was a student at the Tianjin University of Technology and Suzhou University of Science and Technology. Her hobbies are music, movies and drawing sayings on porcelain. Her hometown in Jiangxi Province is known as "China's porcelain capital", and her uncle is a porcelain maker. She played a young taekwondo fan who dreams of becoming a champion in a Chinese movie on Taekwondo.^[1]

See also

• China at the 2012 Summer Olympics#Taekwondo
• Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics - Women's 49 kg

References

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