Jade Jones (taekwondo)

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Jade Jones
MBE
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Jones (blue) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Nickname(s) The Headhunter[1]
Nationality British
Born (1993-03-21) 21 March 1993 (age 31)
Bodelwyddan, Wales, United Kingdom
Residence Flint, Wales, United Kingdom
Height 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Country  United Kingdom
Sport Taekwondo
Event(s)  –57 kg
Club GB Academy
Team GBR
Turned pro 2010
Coached by Paul Green
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London 57 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2011 Gyeongju Featherweight
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku 57 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Montreux Featherweight
Silver medal – second place 2014 Baku Featherweight
Bronze medal – third place 2010 St. Petersburg Bantamweight
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Manchester Featherweight
Youth Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Singapore 55 kg
Updated on 8 August 2012.

Jade Louise Jones MBE (born 21 March 1993) is a Welsh taekwondo athlete who represented Team GB at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning Britain's first taekwondo gold medal, in the women's 57 kg category.[2] Jones was at the time the reigning Youth Olympic champion in the girls' 55 kg category, winning gold for Great Britain in 2010.

Career history

Jones was born in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales.[3][4] She attended Flint High School leaving aged 16 to take up taekwondo full-time.[5] As of 2012, Jones is 1.69 metres (5 ft 7 in) tall and weighs 57 kilograms (126 lb).[4] She competes as part of the GB Taekwondo Academy, which is based in Manchester.

In 2010 Jones won a bronze medal at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[6] Jones competed for Great Britain at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore; she beat Vietnam's Thanh Thao Nguyen 9–6 in the 55 kg category final to become Great Britain's first ever gold medallist at the Games.[7][8] She was named BBC Cymru Wales Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2010.[9]

Jones won her first senior title at the US Open in Austin, Texas in February 2011. She won gold in the −62 kg division having won bronze in the −57 kg competition the previous day.[10] At the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships in Gyeongju, South Korea Jones advanced to the final of the 57 kg event after beating Marlène Harnois of France in the semi-finals. She won the silver medal after losing to China's Hou Yuzhuo in a sudden-death round.[11] In October 2011 Jones won a gold medal at the British Open in Manchester by defeating Harnois 10–8 in the final.[12] At the French Open she won a bronze medal after losing to Harnois in the semi-finals.[13]

At the German Open held in Hamburg in March 2012 Jones won a silver medal losing to China's Yun Wang in the final.[14][15] In May 2012 she won a bronze medal at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships in Manchester.[16]

Jones was selected to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 57 kg weight category.[17] In the games Jones beat Chinese Taipei's top seed Tseng Li-Cheng in the semi-finals after having beaten Japan's Mayu Hamada in the quarter-finals and Serbia's Dragana Gladović in her first bout.[18] In the final on 9 August 2012 she beat Hou Yuzhuo of China 6 points to 4, to become the first ever Briton to win a taekwondo gold medal.[19] Jones narrowly lost 10-9 to Iranian Kimia Alizadeh at the quarter-finals stage of the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships in Russia on 17 May 2015. The result was controversial, as the electronic scoring system crashed during the bout.[20]

Personal life

Jones won the public vote for the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2012.[21]

She is nicknamed "The Headhunter" because she prefers to try and score points from her opponent's head rather than their body as successful kicks to the head are awarded more points than successful kicks to the body.[1][22]

Jones was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to taekwondo.[23][24]

See also

References

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  3. ↑ "Jade Jones: Taekwondo gold medal joy for Olympian" BBC News Wales, 10 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012
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  20. ↑ http://www.gbtaekwondo.co.uk/OLYMPIC-CHAMPION-JONES-SUFFERS-WORLD-CHAMPIONSHIP-AGONY-news-436.html
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  23. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60367. p. 25. 29 December 2012.
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

  • Jade Jones on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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