Lim Su-jeong (taekwondo)

Lim Su-jeong

Medal record
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 (임수정; Korean pronunciation: [im.su.dʑʌŋ]; born August 20, 1986) is a female South Korean taekwondo practitioner.

Asian Games

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

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.

External links

• Lim Su-jeong at TaekwondoData.com
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lim Su-jeong". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
• Profile on the official website of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-08-16)