Sharon Jewell
Appearance
Sharon Jewell (born 1960) is a former US Olympian in the sport of taekwondo.[1] She would train at Howard University under Dong Ja Yang.[2] Sharon would earn a bronze medal in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.[1] While there she would meet and date Olympic wrestler, Rodney Smith.[1]
Her father, Jerry Donal Jewell, was the first African-American member of the Arkansas State Senate.[1]
References
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- American taekwondo practitioners
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners of the United States
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in taekwondo
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- African-American sportswomen
- Female taekwondo practitioners
- American martial arts biography stubs
- Taekwondo biography stubs