# Wu Jingyu

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.

## Biography

Wu Jingyu started training in taekwondo aged 13. 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.

## Career

In 2006, Wu Jingyu participated in China's first International Open in the 47kg category and defeated Wang Ying, the world championship champion who was 15 centimeters taller than herself, to win the championship; in October, she won the 51kg category of the National Championship; on December 8, in Doha In the Asian Games women's 47kg taekwondo final, she defeated Chinese Taipei star Yang Shujun 2:1, achieving her first international championship and winning the first Asian Games gold medal in history for the Chinese taekwondo team.
In 2007, in the 47kg final of the National World Championships, Wu Jingyu defeated the Thai star Yao Wapa with an absolute advantage of 5:0 and won the gold medal; in the same year, he won the 47kg championship at the Beijing World Championships.
In 2008, she participated in the Good Luck Beijing International Invitational Tournament and won the championship in the 49kg category; she won the championship in the 51kg category at the National Taekwondo Championships. On April 25, she lost 3-4 to a Chinese Taipei player in the women's 51kg category at the Asian Taekwondo Championships. Yang Shujun unfortunately won the runner-up.
In 2009, won third place in the 49kg category at the Copenhagen World Championships.
In 2010, she won the third place in the women's Taekwondo category under 49 kg at the first World Martial Arts Games in Beijing. On November 17, in the 49kg taekwondo final of the Guangzhou Asian Games, he easily defeated Japanese players and won the championship. On December 5, won the 53kg championship in the "Glory Walk" Adidas Cup Taekwondo National Championship.
On August 9, 2012, good news came from the taekwondo arena of the London Olympics. In the women's 49kg final, Chinese star Wu Jingyu easily defeated Spanish player Jager 8-1 and retained the championship in this event.
On August 18, 2016, she missed the women's 49kg taekwondo medal at the Rio Olympics.
On February 3, 2019, in the women's under 53 kg final of the World Taekwondo Federation Fujairah Open, Wu Jingyu returned from postpartum and defeated her teammate Liu Kaiqi 26:2 to win the championship in her debut. On April 28, 2019, in the women's under-49 kg final of the 2019 World Taekwondo Grand Slam Championship Series Spring Qualifications, Wu Jingyu defeated South Korean player Jiang Baola 9:5 and 18:4 in two games to win the title. Win the championship. On October 21, in the women's 49kg final of the 2019 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Sofia Station, Wu Jingyu defeated the Rio Olympic champion Kim So-hee of South Korea 24:8, and once again won the highest award of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix after 4 years. tower. On December 7, in the women's 49kg final of the 2019 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Finals held in Moscow, Russia, Wu Jingyu lost to Serbian player Bogdanovic and won the runner-up. On December 19, in the women's 49kg final of the 2019 World Taekwondo Grand Slam Championship Series held in Wuxi, Jiangsu, Wu Jingyu lost to Thailand's Ongpadanaji and won the runner-up.
On July 14, 2021, Wu Jingyu was selected into the list of taekwondo athletes for the Chinese Sports Delegation at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
On July 24, in the quarter-finals of the women's 49kg taekwondo category at the Tokyo Olympics, Wu Jingyu unexpectedly lost to Spanish player Cerezo by a score difference. In the subsequent rematch, Wu Jingyu lost to Serbian player Bodanovic 9-12 and missed the opportunity to compete for his third Olympic medal.
On February 3, 2022, Wu Jingyu became the torchbearer of the Beijing Winter Olympics and participated in the Winter Olympics torch relay at Badaling Great Wall.
On June 25, 2023, the first Olympic e-sports week entered the final day of competition. In the competition of the Taekwondo event "Virtual Taekwondo", two-time Olympic champion and Chinese star Wu Jingyu won the third place. At the same time, this bronze medal is also the first medal won by the Chinese delegation in the history of Olympic esports.
On June 30, 2023, according to the World Taekwondo Federation, Wu Jingyu was elected as the co-chairman of the World Taekwondo Athletes Committee In September, he served as an arbitration committee member at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.