Day 5 Guadalajara 2022 World Taekwondo Championships

As the fight got going, Zuo again landed to the head; Green wood responded with her stabbing side kick. The pressure told, and Zuo lost two Gam-jeoms for a fall and an exit from the mats. Fraught stuff. As the match counted down, it was 5-2 to Zuo, who then suffered a Gam-jeom, taking the board to 5-3.

Less than three seconds remained on the clock. Consider able action and drama would be packed into those seconds.

Greenwood struck with a kick to the body: 5-5. As she ex ulted, the award of a Gam-jeom to Zuo took the board to 6-5. Zuo’s coach looked gutted as another two points were added: Technical points for Greenwood’s blow to Zuo’s body, which had been a spin.

There was less than a second left to play and it was playedbut it ended 8-5 to the delighted American.

“I had been training her to fight down to the very last second, and that is what she did!” said her coach, Paul Green.

Tijana Bogdanovic of Serbia and Ivana Duvancic of Croatia went home with bronzes.