Tag Archives: Wu Jingyu

Adriana Cerezo Iglesias Gives Spain Its First Medal of the Tokyo Games

Posted on by
2

2020 Tokyo Games

It may not be the color she’d like, but Adriana Cerezo Iglesias has given Spain its first medal at the Tokyo Games.

The 17-year-old Spanish taekwondo athlete lost her women’s flyweight (49kg) gold medal match to Thailand’s Panipak Wongphatthanakit, settling for the silver medal.

Adriana Cerezo Iglesias

It’s the first medal for Spain in the 2020 Tokyo Games.

In a close contest, the little-known teenage taekwondo fighter lost by a score of 10-11 to Wongphatthanakit.

 

She’s previously upset China’s two-time Olympic champion Wu Jingyu.

Cerezo Iglesias’s win over the 34-year-old Wu in the women’s -49kg event was a massive shock.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said Cerezo Iglesias, who was leading 33-2 at the end of two rounds and won by ‘point gap’. “She’s one of my idols so I was really excited to fight her, and I’m so happy I could win like that.

 

Yagüe Claims a Silver in Women’s Taekwondo at the London Games

Posted on by
Reply

London Olympics 2012

She couldn’t take down the defending champion, but Brigitte Yagüe Enrique can still call herself an Olympic medalist after a strong showing at the London Games…

Brigitte Yagüe Enrique

The 31-year-old Spanish taekwondo practitioner had to settle for a silver at the 2012 Olympic Games, after losing to China’s Wu Jingyu on Wednesday in the flyweight (49-kilogram) division in women’s taekwondo.

The top-ranked Wu, who won the gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, defeated Yagüe 8-1 in a fast-paced final that saw Wu almost always attacking and using her flexibility to nail Yagüe with repeated close-range kicks.

Brigitte Yagüe Enrique

Yagüe, like the rest of the competitors who had to face Wu this week, never really had a chance in the match. In top form, Wu won two previous matches so decisively they were ended early after she racked up leads considered too big to close.

“She’s become much stronger since Beijing,” said Yagüe. “It was difficult to try to predict where she might be kicking us.”

Brigitte Yagüe Enrique

But Yagüe still has plenty of reason to smile… After all, she’s earned her first Olympic medal after a disappointing performance at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she lost in the first round 5-9 to Yaowapa Boorapolchai of Thailand. She missed the 2008 Olympic Games due to an injury.

The bronze medals went to Thailand’s Chanatip Sonkham and Croatia’s Lucija Zaninovic.