China Jiangxi Network News Gong Yingman, reporter He Zhen reported: On November 19, the good news came from the World Taekwondo Youth Championship in Burnaby, Canada, and Zhou Lijun, a national taekwondo youth team Yifeng athlete, won the women's 55 kg championship.
On November 15, the 2016 World Taekwondo Junior Championships, hosted by the World Taekwondo Federation, opened in Burnaby, Canada, with nearly 900 players from 102 countries and regions around the world participating in the competition. The Chinese national taekwondo youth team competed, and the competition ended on November 20.
Zhou Lijun is a native of Yifeng County, at the age of 9, she was transported from Xinchang to the provincial sports school to start taekwondo training, and then went to Beijing Sport University to train, and has participated in various national competitions many times, and she won two gold medals in the National Youth Taekwondo Championship in July this year and the National Youth Taekwondo Championship in September. After two months, Zhou Lijun was summoned by the national taekwondo youth team to participate in the World Youth Championships. Zhou Lijun won the gold medal in the Taekwondo World Youth Championships for China for the first time, opening her own taekwondo era and becoming the first Yifeng athlete to win the championship in major competitions in the world.