Jade Jones (taekwondo)

Jade Jones
MBE

Jones at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nickname(s)	The Headhunter
Nationality	Welsh
Born	(1993-03-21) 21 March 1993 (age 23) Bodelwyddan, Wales
Residence	Flint, Wales
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Sport	Taekwondo
Event(s)	–57 kg
Club	GB Academy
Team	GBR
Turned pro	2010
Coached by	Paul Green
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2012 London 57 kg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 57 kg World Championships 2011 Gyeongju 57 kg World Grand Prix Finals 2016 Baku 57 kg 2014 Querétaro 57 kg 2013 Manchester 57 kg 2015 Mexico City 57 kg World Grand Prix European Games 2015 Baku 57 kg European Championships 2010 St. Petersburg 53 kg 2012 Manchester 57 kg 2014 Baku 57 kg 2016 Montreux 57 kg Youth Olympic Games 2010 Singapore 55 kg
Updated on 19 August 2016.

Jade Louise Jones MBE (born 21 March 1993) is a Welsh taekwondo athlete who represents Great Britain. She is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women's 57 kg category. In 2012, she won Britain's first taekwondo Olympic gold medal in this category. Jones was at the time the reigning Youth Olympic champion in the girls' 55 kg category, winning gold for Great Britain in 2010

Jones was born in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales. She attended Flint High School leaving aged 16 to take up taekwondo full-time. As of 2012^[update], Jones is 1.69 metres (5 ft 7 in) tall and weighs 57 kilograms (126 lb). 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.