CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 5:16 pm Asian Games: Gold for Cambodia by Californian born in Texas
By STEPHEN WADE
Posted: Aug. 26, 2018

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — At 16, Jessa Khan has already won a stack of gold medals at state, regional and international competitions. But these are nothing to match her gold medal in jiu-jitsu at the Asian Games.

She won for Cambodia, thrilling for a young woman who was born in Texas, lives in southern California and was competing for the birthplace of her father.

"I won a lot of gold medals before, but this one was very special," she said in an interview Sunday with the Associated Press.

Khan said she visited Cambodia for the first time just two weeks ago, intrigued by the chance to compete for her adopted nation in jiu-jitsu, which is on the Asian Games sports program for the first time.

"It means a lot since it's the first time they are having jiu-jitsu, so I'm glad I was able to win it for Cambodia and — make history," she said.

It's surely special for her father Peter, who escaped Cambodia during the mass killings of the Pol Pot regime. He was born in the Phnom Penh. Khan said her mother, April, has Latin American roots.
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