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12 Facts About Wu Jingyu

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Wu Jingyu won several medals at world championships and Asian Games.

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Wu Jingyu's hobbies are music, movies and drawing sayings on porcelain.

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Wu Jingyu's hometown in Jiangxi Province is known as "China's porcelain capital", and her uncle is a porcelain maker.

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Wu Jingyu played a young taekwondo fan who dreams of becoming a champion in a Chinese movie on Taekwondo.

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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.

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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.

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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 won the highest award of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix after 4 years.

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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.

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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.

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On July 14,2021, Wu Jingyu was selected into the list of taekwondo athletes for the Chinese Sports Delegation at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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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.

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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.