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Wang Jiao (, born 20 January 1988,
Shenyang,
Liaoning) is a
female
Female ( symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ...
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
freestyle wrestler
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...
who won gold at the
2008 Summer Olympics.
She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was a late replacement for Xu Wang. She beat
Jenny Fransson
Jenny Fransson (born 17 July 1987 in Karlstad) is a female freestyle wrestler from Sweden who participated in Women's freestyle wrestling 72 kg at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, in the 1/8 f ...
in the first round,
Ali Bernard in the quarter-finals and
Kyoko Hamaguchi in the semi-finals before beating
Stanka Zlateva in the gold medal match.
She competed again at the
2012 Summer Olympics, but was less successful. She beat
Amarachi Obiajunwa in her first match and
Svetlana Saenco in the quarterfinals before losing to
Nataliya Vorobyova in the semifinals. Because Vorobyova reached the final, Wang entered the repechage, but lost her bronze medal match to
Guzel Manyurova
Guzel Tagirkyzy Manyurova ( tt-Cyrl, Гүзәл Таһир кызы Манюрова; born 24 January 1978) is a Tatar freestyle wrestler who competed for Russia and Kazakhstan. She won three medals at the 2004, 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
Manyurov ...
.
See also
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China at the 2012 Summer Olympics
The People's Republic of China competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, between 27 July and 12 August 2012. This was the nation's ninth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952. A total of 396 Chinese athl ...
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1988 births
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic wrestlers for China
Sportspeople from Shenyang
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Chinese female sport wrestlers
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
21st-century Chinese women
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