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 ...

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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 {{PRChina-wrestling-bio-stub

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