Lim Su-jeong (Taekwondoin)

Lim Su-jeong
Personal information
Nationality:	South Korea
Birthday:	August 20, 1986
Size:	168 cm

Lim Su-jeong ( Korean 임수정 ; * August 20, 1986 ) is a South Korean Taekwondoin . In featherweight she was Olympic champion in 2008 and world champion in 2009.

Lim played her first international title fights at the Junior Asian Championships, in 2001 in Hua Chang she won the title in the class up to 49 kilograms, in 2003 in Ho Chi Minh City in the class up to 55 kilograms. At the Asian Games in Busan in 2002 , she won the gold medal in the class up to 51 kilograms and achieved her first international success in the adult division at the age of 16. In the following years there were no further successes, only with gold at the Universiade 2007 in Bangkok did Lim find his way back on the road to success. She qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . With a featherweight up to 57 kilograms, she was able to defeat Veronica Calabrese after two opening wins in the semifinals and move into the final. There she just won against Azize Tanrıkulu , the decisive point she only scored 20 seconds before the end of the fight, and achieved the greatest sporting success of her career with the gold medal.

Her first World Cup in Copenhagen in 2009 was also successful for Lim. She reached the final in the class up to 62 kilograms, where she defeated Zhang Hua and won her first world title. Two years later she won another medal with bronze at the World Championships in Gyeongju . In the semifinals of the class up to 57 kilograms she was defeated by the eventual winner Hou Yuzhuo .

Web links

• Lim Su-jeong in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Lim Su-jeong (Taekwondoin) on the TaekwondoData.com website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ South Korea's Lim Su-jeong wins women's 57kg taekwondo gold. Retrieved June 21, 2012 . 

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, Su-jeong is the first name.