Liu You-yun

Liu You-yun

Sport
Country	Chinese Taipei
Sport	Taekwondo
Weight class	49 kg
Medal record Women's taekwondo Representing   Chinese Taipei World Championships 2025 Wuxi 49 kg

Liu You-yun (born 30 September 2006) is a female Taiwanese taekwondo athlete who competes internationally for Chinese Taipei. ^[1] She won a gold medal at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships. ^[2]

Career

In May 2025, she won the women's -49 kg division at the Swedish Open Taekwondo Tournament. ^[3] She won the women's -49 kg category at the Charlotte 2025 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge in June 2025, defeating Kazakhstan's Nodira Akhmedova in the final. ^[4]

She won the gold medal at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in the women's flyweight division, defeating Elif Sude Akgül of Turkey in the final, where she produced a decisive head kick in the final ten seconds of the final round to win the gold medal on her senior World Taekwondo Championships debut. Earlier in the championships she had beaten Spain's former World Championship medalist Adriana Cerezo and Kazakhstan's Nodira Akhmedova. ^{[5] [6]}

References

1. "Entry List by Country" (PDF). rhineruhr2025.com. 18 July 2025. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2025. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
2. "Liu You-yun". Taekwondo Data. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
3. Khalatyan, Rafael (6 May 2025). "Salim family success propels Hungary". Inside the Games. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
4. "Chinese Taipei and Italy take gold as spectacular Charlotte 2025 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenge concludes". Worldtaekwondo. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
5. "National taekwondo athlete Elif Sude Akgül became the world's second". Canligaste.com. 25 October 2025. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
6. "Chinese Taipei and Tunisia take gold medals on day two of Wuxi 2025 World Taekwondo Championships". worldtaekwondo.org. 25 October 2025. Retrieved 25 October 2025.