Wang Jiao (, born 20 January 1988,

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) is a

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who won gold at the

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. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was a late replacement for Xu Wang. She beat

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in the first round,

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in the quarter-finals and

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in the semi-finals before beating

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in the gold medal match. She competed again at the

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, 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

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1988 births Living people Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic wrestlers for China Sportspeople from Shenyang Martial artists from Liaoning 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 sportswomen {{PRChina-wrestling-bio-stub

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