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Yoon Ji-su

Yoon Ji-su (Korean: 윤지수, Korean pronunciation: [jun.dʑi.su] or [jun] [tɕi.su]; born 24 January 1993) is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.[1]

Yoon Ji-su
Personal information
Born (1993-01-24) 24 January 1993 (age 31)
Busan, South Korea
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
CountrySouth Korea
WeaponSabre
Handright-handed
National coachHan Joo-yeol
ClubSeoul Metropolitan Government
Head coachCho Jong-hyung
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's sabre
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Team
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Leipzig Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Wuxi Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Budapest Team
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Milan Team
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta–Palembang Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou Team
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Wakayama Individual
Gold medal – first place 2019 Chiba Individual
Gold medal – first place 2012 Wakayama Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Shanghai Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Singapore Team
Silver medal – second place 2014 Suwon Team
Silver medal – second place 2016 Wuxi Team
Silver medal – second place 2017 Hong Kong Team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Bangkok Team
Silver medal – second place 2019 Chiba Team
Silver medal – second place 2024 Kuwait City Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Wuxi Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Kuwait City Team

Yoon is a four-time team Asian champion and a two-time individual Asian champion.

A two-time Olympian, Yoon is a 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist.

Early life

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Yoon is the younger of two children and only daughter of retired baseball player and coach Yoon Hak-kil [ko]. She was born and raised in Busan as her father was a "one-team man" who spent his entire playing career and part of his coaching career with Lotte Giants. Her father had been initially opposed to her becoming a professional athlete but relented after much persuasion.[2]

Yoon was initially a taekwondo athlete in elementary school before switching to fencing in middle school.[3] As a high school student, she participated in the 2010 Junior World Fencing Championships.

Career

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Yoon was first selected for the senior national team in 2011 and won individual gold at the 2012 Asian Championships. She did not participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics as the women's team sabre was not in rotation and she was not ranked high enough to be selected for the individual event. In 2014, she was part of the team along with Kim Ji-yeon, Hwang Seon-a and Lee Ra-jin and they won silver at the Asian Championships and gold at the Asian Games.[4]

Yoon won her first ever Fencing World Cup medal in October 2015, at the Orléans competition. She was joint bronze medalist with Ibtihaj Muhammad. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she only participated in the team event but they failed to win a medal after losing to Ukraine at the first stage. She won her first World Championships medal when they won silver in the team event at the 2017 World Championships.[5][6]

Medal record

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Olympic Games

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Year Location Event Position
2021   Tokyo, Japan Team Women's Sabre 3rd[7]

World Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2017   Leipzig, Germany Team Women's Sabre 2nd[8]
2018   Wuxi, China Team Women's Sabre 3rd[9]
2019   Budapest, Hungary Team Women's Sabre 3rd[10]

Asian Championship

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Year Location Event Position
2012   Wakayama, Japan Individual Women's Sabre 1st[11]
2012   Wakayama, Japan Team Women's Sabre 1st[12]
2013   Shanghai, China Team Women's Sabre 1st[13]
2014   Suwon, South Korea Team Women's Sabre 2nd[14]
2015   Singapore Team Women's Sabre 1st[15]
2016   Wuxi, China Individual Women's Sabre 3rd[16]
2016   Wuxi, China Team Women's Sabre 2nd[17]
2017   Hong Kong, China Team Women's Sabre 2nd[18]
2018   Bangkok, Thailand Team Women's Sabre 2nd[19]
2019   Tokyo, Japan Individual Women's Sabre 1st[20]
2019   Tokyo, Japan Team Women's Sabre 2nd[21]
2022   Seoul, South Korea Team Women's Sabre 1st[22]

Grand Prix

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Date Location Event Position
2021-11-12   Orléans, France Individual Women's Sabre 3rd[23]

World Cup

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Date Location Event Position
2015-10-30   Orléans, France Individual Women's Sabre 3rd[24]
2021-03-12   Budapest, Hungary Individual Women's Sabre 3rd[25]

Personal life

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Yoon attended Dong-Eui University, one of the few universities with a fencing team, and was contemporaries with fellow sabre fencer Kim Jun-ho.[2][26] She is enrolled as a graduate student at Kookmin University, studying sports psychology.[27]

References

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  1. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b "[인천 아시안게임 기대주] 8. 펜싱 – 동의대 윤지수". Busan Ilbo (in Korean). 12 September 2014.
  3. ^ "아빠는 던졌고 저는 찔러요". Busan Ilbo (in Korean). 19 April 2010.
  4. ^ "[Asian Games] South Korea beats China for gold in women's sabre team event". The Korea Herald. 23 September 2014.
  5. ^ "펜싱 역전드라마 윤지수ㆍ완투만 100차례 윤학길 '부전여전'". Hankook Ilbo (in Korean). 28 July 2017.
  6. ^ "윤학길 코치 딸 윤지수, 여자 사브르 '역전의 명수'로 우뚝". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). 28 July 2017.
  7. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  8. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  9. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  10. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  11. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  12. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  13. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  14. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  15. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  16. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  17. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  18. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  19. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  20. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  21. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  22. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  23. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  24. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  25. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website". FIE.org. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  26. ^ "도쿄올림픽 펜싱 어벤져스, 모교 동의대 방문" (in Korean). Dong-Eui University. 30 August 2021.
  27. ^ "목표를 향한 도전이 가장 아름답습니다 2018 자카르타-팔렘방 아시안 게임 펜싱 금메달리스트 구본길, 황선아, 윤지수 선수 (국민대학교 스포츠산업대학원)" (in Korean). UNIK webzine (Vol. 56). Kookmin University. April 2018.
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