Lim Su-jeong (taekwondo)
Medal record | ||
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Women's taekwondo | ||
Representing South Korea | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2008 Beijing | 57 kg | |
World Championships | ||
2009 Copenhagen | Lightweight | |
2011 Gyeongju | Featherweight | |
Asian Games | ||
2002 Busan | Flyweight | |
Summer Universiade | ||
2007 Bangkok | Featherweight |
Lim Su-jeong (Korean: 임수정; Hanja: 林秀貞; Korean pronunciation: [im.su.dʑʌŋ]; born August 20, 1986) is a female South Korean taekwondo practitioner.
Asian Games
[edit]At the age of 16, she won the gold medal in flyweight (–51 kg) at the 2002 Asian Games, beating 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Yaowapa Boorapolchai of Thailand in the final.
In 2007, Lim won the gold medal in featherweight (–59 kg) at the 24th Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, defeating 2005 World Championship bronze medalist Chonnapas Premwaew of Thailand 8–1 in the final.
Olympic Games
[edit]She qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing in first place in the –57 kg category at the World Qualification Tournament in Manchester, England. Lim won the gold medal in the women's 57 kg category at the 2008 Olympics, defeating Azize Tanrıkulu of Turkey.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Lim Su-jeong at TaekwondoData.com
- Lim Su-jeong at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Profile on the official website of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-08-16)
- 1986 births
- Living people
- South Korean female taekwondo practitioners
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners for South Korea
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
- Asian Games medalists in taekwondo
- Olympic medalists in taekwondo
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2002 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
- Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
- Summer World University Games medalists in taekwondo
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for South Korea
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- 21st-century South Korean sportswomen
- South Korean Olympic medalist stubs
- South Korean taekwondo biography stubs