Profile details
- Born
- 14 Nov 1987
- Birthplace
- Zhangjiakou
- Country
- China
- Height
- 177 cm
- Sport
- Taekwondo
- Discipline
- Combat
- Category
- Women
- Status
- Active
District, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- No recorded honours or awards.
Competition Appearances
4 recorded appearances, most significant first.
- ·2012 Summer Olympics – women's 57 kg
- ·2010 Asian Games
- ·2011 World Taekwondo Championships
- ·2009 World Taekwondo Championships
Career Timeline
- 2009Competed at 2009 World Taekwondo Championships
- 2010Competed at 2010 Asian Games
- 2011Competed at 2011 World Taekwondo Championships
- 2012Competed at taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – women's 57 kg
Statistics
About
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.
Biography adapted from Hou Yuzhuo on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.