Last month Jade Jones made Olympic history, when she won Britain’s first ever taekwondo Gold medal and became Team GB’s youngest gold medallist of the London 2012 Games, after the 19-year-old proved victorious in the women’s -57kg category. Sportsister caught up with Jade to find out what life’s like as an Olympic gold medallist.
Taekwondo translates into English as ‘the art of foot and fist’ and it is exactly that, a battle of kicks and punches.
GB Taekwondo has named a strong squad of 15 for the upcoming European Taekwondo Championships held May 3 - 6 at Manchester’s Regional Arena.
GB’s Jade Jones has won silver in the German Open Championships in Hamburg, competing in the -57kg weight division.
Jade Jones capped a memorable night at the British International Open in Manchester yesterday. She joined Bianca Walkden and Martin Stamper as British Open gold medallists.
18 year old Youth Olympic Champion Jade Jones made history in Korea in the early hours of this morning by winning a silver medal on her senior World Championship debut.
Jade Jones and Sophie Dickson both produced outstanding displays to contribute to an outstanding weekend for the GB team at the WTF US Open in Texas, with 17-year-old Jones securing a golden finish in the lightweight (-62kg) division to add to her bronze in the -57kg division.
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