Name Hou Yuzhuo Role Olympic athlete | Height 1.75 m Weight 57 kg | |
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Olympic medals Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 57 kg Similar People Jade Jones, Tseng Li‑cheng, Marlene Harnois | ||
Hou Yuzhuo (Chinese: 侯玉琢; pinyin: Hóu Yùzhuó; born 14 November 1987 in Zhangjiakou, Hebei) is a female Chinese Taekwondo practitioner. She won gold medal in 2009 Copenhagen World Taekwondo Championship and the silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London she defeated American Beijing bronze medalist Diana López in the final seconds in the first round, before beating Suvi Mikkonen in the second round and Marlène Harnois in the semi-final. She lost 6-4 to Jade Jones in the final.
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