Yu Song

Yu Song 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

Yu Song ( Chinese  于 颂 ; born August 6, 1986 in Qingdao ) is a Chinese judoka who was third in the 2016 Olympic Games in the weight category over 78 kilograms.

Athletic career

The 1.82 m tall Yu Song was third in the U20 Asian Championships in 2004, and in 2005 and 2006 she won silver behind the Uzbek Mariya Shekerova . Yu Song also won medals in the adult class at the Asian Championships in 2005. She was third in the open class and won silver in the heavyweight division behind the Japanese Mika Sugimoto . In the years that followed, she regularly competed at the international tournament in her hometown of Qingdao, but did not qualify for participation in international championships, where Tong Wen mostly competed for China. In 2010 Yu Song won her first World Cup tournament in Suwon, but lost in the first fight against Mika Sugimoto at the 2010 World Championships . In 2011 she won bronze with the Chinese team at the Universiade.

She celebrated her first major international success in 2015 when she won the Asian Championships in Kuwait, when she defeated the South Korean Kim Min-jung in the final. Three months after the Asian Championships, Yu Song won the final of the World Championships in Astana against the Japanese Megumi Tachimoto . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she lost to French Émilie Andéol in the semi-finals , and in the battle for the bronze medal, Yu Song won against Kim Min-jung. Yu Song also met the South Korean in the quarter-finals of the 2017 World Championships in Budapest and the Chinese won again. In the semifinals she defeated Irina Kindzerska from Azerbaijan and in the final against the Japanese Sarah Asahina she won her second gold medal after 2015.

Web links

• Yu Song in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tournament results at judoinside.com

Footnotes

1. ↑ Asian Championships 2005 at judoinside.com
2. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com