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Yvette Yong

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Yvette Yong
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing  Canada
World Taekwondo Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Copenhagen 46 kg

Yvette Hui Hua Yong (born 9 March 1990 in Vancouver)[1] is a Canadian taekwondo practitioner.[2][3]

Career

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b "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.
  4. ^ "Elite-level Taekwondo champion sets her sights on the Olympics". Navy-marine.forces.gc.ca.[dead link‍]
  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.
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