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| show-medals = | updated = 8 August 2012 }} Jade Louise Jones MBE (born 21 March 1993) is a Welsh taekwondo athlete who represented Team GB at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning Britain's first taekwondo gold medal, in the women's 57 kg category.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Jade Jones gives Britain first taekwondo gold )〕 Jones was at the time the reigning Youth Olympic champion in the girls' 55 kg category, winning gold for Great Britain in 2010. ==Career history== Jones was born in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales.〔("Jade Jones: Taekwondo gold medal joy for Olympian" BBC News Wales, 10 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.teamgb.com/athletes/jade-jones )〕 She attended Flint High School leaving aged 16 to take up taekwondo full-time. , Jones is tall and weighs .〔 She competes as part of the GB Taekwondo Academy, which is based in Manchester. In 2010 Jones won a bronze medal at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Jones competed for Great Britain at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore; she beat Vietnam's Thanh Thao Nguyen 9–6 in the 55 kg category final to become Great Britain's first ever gold medallist at the Games. She was named BBC Cymru Wales Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2010. Jones won her first senior title at the US Open in Austin, Texas in February 2011. She won gold in the −62 kg division having won bronze in the −57 kg competition the previous day. At the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships in Gyeongju, South Korea Jones advanced to the final of the 57 kg event after beating Marlène Harnois of France in the semi-finals. She won the silver medal after losing to China's Hou Yuzhuo in a sudden-death round. In October 2011 Jones won a gold medal at the British Open in Manchester by defeating Harnois 10–8 in the final. At the French Open she won a bronze medal after losing to Harnois in the semi-finals. At the German Open held in Hamburg in March 2012 Jones won a silver medal losing to China's Yun Wang in the final. In May 2012 she won a bronze medal at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships in Manchester. Jones was selected to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 57 kg weight category. In the games Jones beat Chinese Taipei's top seed Tseng Li-Cheng in the semi-finals after having beaten Japan's Mayu Hamada in the quarter-finals and Serbia's Dragana Gladović in her first bout.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19186307 )〕 In the final on 9 August 2012 she beat Hou Yuzhuo of China 6 points to 4, to become the first ever Briton to win a taekwondo gold medal. Jones narrowly lost 10-9 to Iranian Kimia Alizadeh at the quarter-finals stage of the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships in Russia on 17 May 2015. The result was controversial, as the electronic scoring system crashed during the bout.〔http://www.gbtaekwondo.co.uk/OLYMPIC-CHAMPION-JONES-SUFFERS-WORLD-CHAMPIONSHIP-AGONY-news-436.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jade Jones (taekwondo)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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