Jackie Galloway
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| Nationality | American- Mexicana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 27, 1995 Crown Point, Indiana, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Heavyweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jackie Galloway (born December 27, 1995) is an American taekwondo competitor and a bronze medalist in the 2016 Olympics. She is also a citizen of Mexico.[1]
2012 season
Galloway was an alternate for the Mexican team at the 2012 Olympics.[2]
2015 season
She won bronze at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships.[3] Galloway earned a spot in the 2016 Olympics by being in the top six ranked competitors in her weight class.[4]
Personal life
She is an engineering student at Southern Methodist University.[5] While there she was on the rowing team.[6]
References
- ^ "North Texas Tae Kwon Do Star Headed To The Olympics". dfw.cbslocal.com.
- ^ "Steven Lopez makes fifth U.S. Olympic taekwondo team". OlympicTalk.
- ^ Courtney Collins. "College Taekwondo Athlete Fights Her Way Around The Globe For Shot At The Olympics".
- ^ "Jackie Galloway is first to qualify for 2016 U.S. Olympic taekwondo team". OlympicTalk.
- ^ "College Sports: Hairopoulos: North Texans vying for 2016 Olympics: Jordan Spieth, 16-year-old gymnast, more - SportsDay". SportsDay.
- ^ "Aiming high". Wylie News.
External links
Categories:
- American taekwondo practitioners
- Living people
- Female taekwondo practitioners
- American sportswomen
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners of the United States
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in taekwondo
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Southern Methodist University alumni
- Mexican taekwondo practitioners
- Mexican sportswomen
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Mexico
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2012 Summer Olympics