Lim Jong-hoon

Lim Jong-hoon
Other spellings:	임종훈
Nation:	South Korea
Date of birth:	January 21, 1997
Place of birth:	Busan
Playing hand:	Left
How to play:	Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings :	70
Best world ranking :	16 (May 2019)

Lim Jong-hoon ( Korean 임종훈; born January 21, 1997 in Busan ) is a South Korean table tennis player . He is left-handed and uses the European shakehand racket pose. Together with the team, he won silver at the 2018 Asian Games and the 2019 World Team Cup.

Overview of titles and successes

singles

• World Tour: Winner of the Polish Open 2018, semi-finals at the Hong Kong Open 2018

Double

• Universiade: Silver 2017
• World Tour: Winner of Belarus Open 2016, Winner of Korea Open 2018, Winner of World Tour Grand Finals 2018

team

• Universiade: Bronze 2017
• Asian Games: Silver 2018
• World Championship: Bronze 2018
• World Team Cup: Bronze 2018, Silver 2019

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team	U-21
COR	Asian Games	2018	Jakarta	IDN			Quarter finals	2
COR	Universiade	2017	Taipei	TPE	Quarter finals	silver		3
COR	Challenge Series	2018	Spała	POLE	gold	Quarter finals			last 16
COR	World Tour	2020	Magdeburg	GER	last 32
COR	World Tour	2019	Linz	AUT	last 128
COR	World Tour	2019	Geelong	OUT	last 32	Quarter finals	last 16
COR	World Tour	2019	Busan	COR	last 16	Semifinals	Quarter finals
COR	World Tour	2019	Shenzhen	CHN	last 64	Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2018	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	last 16
COR	World Tour	2018	Kitakyushu	JPN	last 32	Quarter finals
COR	World Tour	2018	Hong Kong	HKG	Semifinals	last 16			last 32
COR	World Tour	2017	Gold coast	OUT	last 16				Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2017	Cheng you	CHN	last 32	last 16			Semifinals
COR	World Tour	2016	Minsk	BLR	Quarter finals	gold			Semifinals
COR	World Tour Grand Finals	2018	Incheon	COR	last 16	gold	Semifinals
COR	World Tour Grand Finals	2016	Doha	QAT					Quarter finals
COR	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				3
COR	World Team Cup	2019	Tokyo	JPN				2
COR	World Team Cup	2018	London	CLOSELY				3
COR	Youth World Championship	2013	Rabat	MAR	last 16	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
COR	Youth World Championship	2012	Hyderabad	IND	last 32	Quarter finals	last 32	3

Private

Lim has two younger brothers, spent his childhood in Daejeon and now lives in Seongnam .

Web links

• Lim Jong-hoon on the website of the World Table Tennis Association (ittf.com) (English, accessed on August 18, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Lim Jonghoon seeking to build on last year. July 15, 2018, accessed August 18, 2020 (UK English). 
2. ^ First Senior Title For Lim Jonghoon. In: SD Sport. March 19, 2018, accessed August 18, 2020 (UK English). 
3. ↑ Men's Doubles triumph for Lim and Jang. September 11, 2016, accessed August 18, 2020 (UK English). 
4. ^ Jang wins three titles at the ITTF World Tour Korea Open. July 22, 2018, accessed on August 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ JANG Woojin - T2 Diamond. Retrieved August 18, 2020 (American English). 
6. ↑ Players matches. Retrieved August 18, 2020 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lim is the family name here, Jong-hoon is the first name.