Yvette Yong

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Yvette Yong
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Women's taekwondo
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World Taekwondo Championships
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Yvette Hui Hua Yong (born 9 March 1990 in Vancouver) [1] is a Canadian taekwondo practitioner. [2] [3]

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Career

She is a former World Championships bronze medallist. [4] [ permanent dead link ] In 2015, she was named to Canada's team at the 2015 Pan American Games to be held in Toronto. [5]

Yong competed at the 2019 Pan American Games losing in the quarter-finals.

In July 2021, Yong was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team. [6] [7] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she placed joint eleventh in the women's <49kg division. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Olympedia – Yvette Yong". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  2. "YONG, Yvette". Taekwondodata.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-14.
  3. "Taekwondo - YONG Yvette". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
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  5. Hossain, Asif (22 May 2015). "Taekwondo names team to fight for Pan Am gold". Olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee . Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  6. Nichols, Paula; Chloe, Morrison (2 July 2021). "Team Canada to have two taekwondo athletes at Tokyo 2020". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee . Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  7. Berkeley, Geoff (3 July 2021). "Canada sending two taekwondo players to Tokyo 2020 Olympics as Yong receives reallocated place". Inside the Games . Dunsar Media. Retrieved 3 July 2021.