Third Gold for Chinese Taipei

Tseng Yi-hsuan, runner-up in this year's World Championships won the third gold for Chinese Taipei delegation at the 24th Universiade in women's 55kg division taekwondo event. It was an exciting match for her I supposed when she met her old rival, Jung Jin Hee from South Korea whom she lost to at the final of the World Championships.

According to Tseng, she mentioned that she almost lost confidence in competing with South Korean players after she lost to Jung in the World Championships and another South Korean player in the Doha Asiad.

However, she managed to took revenge over the old rival by defeating Jung 1-1 in a breathtaking sudden death round.

"I thought I would have lost," Tseng said.

She changed her tactics in the semi-final, as she found out that Jung was good at counterattacking skills, into defensive and made the three regular rounds a 0-0 tie.

"I overcame the fear this time," she said.

In the final, she defeated U.S. opponent Jesika Torres with superiority after the three regular rounds and the sudden death round ended with a 1-1 draw.

Though she won, she said that she didn't do that well in the final.

I happened to read from another news that bottles were thrown by the spectators into the arena after the match. Nevertheless, I feel
that it is still a feat for the young 19 year-old Tseng to win over the World Champion and made it into the final.