Kim Yun-ja

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Kim Yun-ja ( kor. 김연자 ; * May 15, 1963 ) is a former badminton player from South Korea .

Athletic career

Kim Yun-ja won two bronze medals at the World Championships in women's doubles. In 1985 she played with Yoo Sang-hee and in 1987 with Chung So-young . As the last sportswoman to date, she won both singles and doubles at the All England .

Sporting successes

singles

space discipline year place Opponent in the last game Result
Asian Games
3 singles 1986 Korea SouthSouth Korea Seoul, South Korea
3 singles 1982 IndiaIndia New Delhi, India
Asian Championship
2 singles 1983 IndiaIndia Calcutta, India Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee 6-11, 2-11
All of England
1 singles 1986 EnglandEngland London, England China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Qian ping 11-6, 12-11
More competitions
1 singles 1987 FranceFrance French Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Lee Young-suk 11-4, 5-11, 11-0
1 singles 1986 GermanyGermany German Open EnglandEngland Helen Troke 11-1, 8-11, 12-10
1 singles 1985 DenmarkDenmark Denmark Open DenmarkDenmark Kirsten Larsen 11-4, 11-2

Double

space discipline year place partner Opponent in the last game Result
World Championship
3 WD 1987 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing, China Korea SouthSouth Korea Chung So-young
3 WD 1985 CanadaCanada Calgary, Canada Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee
Asian Games
2 WD 1986 Korea SouthSouth Korea Seoul, South Korea Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Lin & Guan
2 WD 1982 IndiaIndia New Delhi, India Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee Korea SouthSouth Korea Kang Haeng-suk & Hwang Sun-ai 13-18, 15-7, 7-15
All of England
1 WD 1988 EnglandEngland London, England Korea SouthSouth Korea Chung So-young Korea SouthSouth Korea Chung Myung-hee & Hwang Hye-young task
More tournaments
1 WD 1988 BelgiumBelgium Belgian International Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee DenmarkDenmark Dorte Kjær & Nettie Nielsen 15-12, 15-2
1 XD 1987 FranceFrance French Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Park Joo-bong DenmarkDenmark Mark Christiansen & Erica van DijkNetherlandsNetherlands 15-10, 15-7
1 WD 1986 DenmarkDenmark Scandinavian Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee Korea SouthSouth Korea Chung Myung-hee & Chung So-young 15-7, 15-4
1 WD 1986 GermanyGermany German Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee Korea SouthSouth Korea Chung Myung-hee & Chung So-young 15-10, 15-5
1 WD 1985 DenmarkDenmark Denmark Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee SwedenSweden Christine Magnusson & Maria Bengtsson 12-15, 18-14, 15-1
1 WD 1985 DenmarkDenmark Denmark Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee EnglandEngland Gillian Gilks & Nora Perry 15-7, 15-7
1 WD 1985 JapanJapan Japan Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wu Jianqiu & Guan Weizhen 15-4, 3-15, 15-4
1 WD 1984 SwedenSweden Swedish Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee JapanJapan Yonekura & Tokuda 15-11, 10-15, 15-9
1 WD 1984 DenmarkDenmark Denmark Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee JapanJapan Yonekura & Tokuda 3-15, 15-3, 15-13
1 WD 1983 MalaysiaMalaysia Malaysia Open Korea SouthSouth Korea Yoo Sang-hee EnglandEngland Perry & Webster 11-15, 15-4, 15-7

credentials

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Yun-ja is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Yun-ja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 김연자 (Korean)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean badminton player
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1963