Dominant Wu retains flyweight title in style
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August 10, 2012, Friday
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WU Jingyu of China retained her Olympic taekwondo crown with a dominant performance in the women's flyweight (49-kilogram) category at London's ExCel Arena on Wednesday.
The twice world champion was always in control of the final against three-time world champion Brigitte Yague Enrique of Spain, winning 8-1.
Chanatip Sonkham of Thailand won the first bronze medal as she connected with two head-kicks in the final round to help her beat Elizabeth Zamora of Guatemala 8-0.
Fifth seed Lucija Zaninovic of Croatia took the other bronze medal with a golden point to beat Jannet Alegria of Mexico.
Top seed Wu, 25, was in control of the category all day and never looked like she could lose it. She said she's come a long way since her previous Olympic crown.
"They're different, back in 2008 I was still young and I had a lot of drive," Wu said. "These last four years have been quite hard on me because I had already won gold.
"I faced a lot of hardship in terms of opponents and the outside world. I'm very happy to win another gold this time. I've matured over the last four years and I've been rewarded for the experience I've garnered.
"The biggest reward is that I've become very calm and I'm able to accept hardship."
A three-point head kick in the first round of the final helped her to a 4-0 lead and from there she just eked out her advantage with single-point kicks to the body.
Before that she was in devastating form and ended her quarterfinal and semifinal early on obvious superiority, by accumulating a 12-point lead or more.
First-round opponent Zamora made it to the end of her fight, although she was still comfortably beaten 2-10. The quarterfinal against Japan's Erika Kasahara was ended inside the second round as Wu had built up a 14-0 lead in double-quick time.
In the semis, twice European champion Zaninovic failed to make it to the end of the three rounds as she was beaten 7-19.
For Enrique it was her first Olympic medal after a first-round defeat in Athens and an injury-enforced absence from Beijing.
In the men's 58kg category, world No. 1 Joel Gonzalez Bonilla of Spain defeated Lee Dae-hoon of South Korea 17-8 to win his first Olympic title. The bronze medals were won by Alexey Denisenko of Russia and Colombia's Oscar Munoz Oviedo.
The twice world champion was always in control of the final against three-time world champion Brigitte Yague Enrique of Spain, winning 8-1.
Chanatip Sonkham of Thailand won the first bronze medal as she connected with two head-kicks in the final round to help her beat Elizabeth Zamora of Guatemala 8-0.
Fifth seed Lucija Zaninovic of Croatia took the other bronze medal with a golden point to beat Jannet Alegria of Mexico.
Top seed Wu, 25, was in control of the category all day and never looked like she could lose it. She said she's come a long way since her previous Olympic crown.
"They're different, back in 2008 I was still young and I had a lot of drive," Wu said. "These last four years have been quite hard on me because I had already won gold.
"I faced a lot of hardship in terms of opponents and the outside world. I'm very happy to win another gold this time. I've matured over the last four years and I've been rewarded for the experience I've garnered.
"The biggest reward is that I've become very calm and I'm able to accept hardship."
A three-point head kick in the first round of the final helped her to a 4-0 lead and from there she just eked out her advantage with single-point kicks to the body.
Before that she was in devastating form and ended her quarterfinal and semifinal early on obvious superiority, by accumulating a 12-point lead or more.
First-round opponent Zamora made it to the end of her fight, although she was still comfortably beaten 2-10. The quarterfinal against Japan's Erika Kasahara was ended inside the second round as Wu had built up a 14-0 lead in double-quick time.
In the semis, twice European champion Zaninovic failed to make it to the end of the three rounds as she was beaten 7-19.
For Enrique it was her first Olympic medal after a first-round defeat in Athens and an injury-enforced absence from Beijing.
In the men's 58kg category, world No. 1 Joel Gonzalez Bonilla of Spain defeated Lee Dae-hoon of South Korea 17-8 to win his first Olympic title. The bronze medals were won by Alexey Denisenko of Russia and Colombia's Oscar Munoz Oviedo.
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