Canadian badminton player (born 1995)
Badminton player
Josephine Wu
吴宛菱 |
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| Birth name | Josephine Wu Yuenling |
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| Country | Canada |
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| Born | (1995-01-20) 20 January 1995 (age 29)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada[1] |
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| Residence | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
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| Highest ranking | 27 (WD with Catherine Choi) (31 October 2023)
29 (XD with Ty Alexander Lindeman) (31 October 2023) |
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| Current ranking | 28 (WD with Catherine Choi)
29 (XD with Ty Alexander Lindeman) (2 January 2024) |
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| BWF profile |
Josephine Yuenling Wu (born 20 January 1995) is a Canadian badminton player.[2][3] She clinched three Pan American Games gold medals by winning the mixed doubles title in 2019 and 2023, and also the women's doubles title in 2023.[4][5] At the Pan Am Championships, she won seven golds, and five silver medals since her debut at the tournament in 2016.[6]
Early and personal life
Wu is currently a business student at the University of Alberta and has been competing in badminton since she was seven years old.
Career
As a junior, she has won 29 provincial titles and was a member of Team Canada at the 2012 BWF World Junior Championships and the Pan Am Junior Badminton Championships from 2008 to 2013. Despite having a full course load in university, Josephine's passion for the sport has motivated her to continue balancing her school work and training. She was the mixed doubles winner at the 2014 College-University National Championships and went on to represent Canada at the 2014 World University Badminton Championships in Cordoba, Spain. Outside of training, Josephine also enjoys coaching her high school's badminton team.[7] In 2016, she won the gold medal in the mixed team event at the Pan Am Badminton Championships.[8] In the individual event, she won the Pan Am Championships gold medals in the women's doubles in 2016, and 2017, and also in the mixed doubles in 2018, 2019 and 2021.[9][10][11] Wu was a gold medalist in the mixed doubles event at the 2019 Lima Pan American Games.[4]
In 2021, Wu defend her mixed doubles title at the Pan Am Championships with partner Joshua Hurlburt-Yu, when the duo beating Christopher Martínez and Marian Paiz of Guatemala in the final in straight games.[12] In June, Wu was named to Canada's Olympic team,[13] competing in the mixed doubles badminton event with Hurlburt-Yu, but they were eliminated in the group stage.[14] After the Olympics, Wu reunited with Ty Alexander Lindeman and managed to win the Guatemala International, became their first in the international tournament since their last pairing in 2018.[15]
In 2023, Wu took the gold medal in the women's doubles with Catherine Choi and the silver medal with Ty Alexander Lindeman at the Pan Am Championships. This was the seven gold medals won by Wu since her debut at the Championships in 2016.[6] She then made her second appearance at the Pan American Games and captured two gold medals by winning the women's doubles with Choi and the mixed doubles with Lindeman.[5]
