Wu Yu | |
Weight Class: | Flyweight |
Height: | 160 cm |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Birth Date: | 13 January 1995 |
Birth Place: | Guiding County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China |
Stance: | Orthodox |
Boxrec: | 899642 |
Total: | 35 |
Wins: | 31 |
Ko: | 0 |
Losses: | 4 |
Draws: | 0 |
No Contests: | 0 |
Wu Yu (born 13 January 1995) is a Chinese boxer. She won the gold medal in Women's 50kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
She won a gold medal at the 2023 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships.[1]
On 9 August 2024, she won the gold medal in Women's 50kg at the 2024 Summer Olympics, defeating Turkish boxer Buse Naz Çakıroğlu by 4-1 in the final. She is China's 2nd woman boxer to have become an Olympic champion;[2] Chang Yuan was the first.[3]
Wu has been described as being a sergeant in the Chinese military.[4]