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Canadian taekwondo practitioner
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) is a Canadian taekwondo practitioner.

Career

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

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. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she placed joint eleventh in the women's <49kg division.

References

  1. ^ "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.
  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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