Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones aims for World Grand Prix success
VIDEO: Jade Jones (GBR) Wins Taekwondo -57kg Gold v Hou Yuzhuo (CHN) Fight below
Jones is currently second in the world -57kg rankings, comfortably inside the top six required for qualification for next year’s Olympic Games
She may be well placed in the race for Rio but Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones insists she will not be letting her rivals take the opportunity to close the gap on her in this year’s Grand Prix Series, writes Pippa Field.
Jones is currently second in the world -57kg rankings, comfortably inside the top six required for qualification for next year’s Olympic Games.
It comes after a season so far which has included the 22-year-old being controversially knocked out of the quarter-finals of the World Championships before bouncing back with gold at the inaugural European Championships in Baku.
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Taekwondo (English pronunciation /ˌtaɪˌkwɒnˈdoʊ/ or (thai-KWAN-doh): also transcribed as Taekwon-Do or Tae Kwon Do) is a Korean martial art with a heavy emphasis on kicks. Taekwondo was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by various Korean martial artists, as a blend of the indigenous Korean fighting styles of taekkyeon, gwonbeop, and subak, with influence from foreign martial arts, such as Karate and Chinese martial arts.
