Name Hwang Kyung-seon Role Olympic athlete | Height 1.75 m Weight 67 kg | |
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Born May 21, 1986 (age 37) ( 1986-05-21 ) Similar People Nur Tatar, Helena Fromm, Paige McPherson, Karine Sergerie, Gwladys Epangue | ||
Hwang kyung seon kor v sarah stevenson gbr 2011 world taekwondo champs
Hwang Kyung-seon ([hwaŋ.ɡjʌŋ.sʌn], born May 21, 1986), also spelled Hwang Kyung-sun, is a female South Korean Taekwondo practitioner. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
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- Hwang Kyung seon wins Gold in womens Taekwondo At 2012 London Olympics
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Hwang Kyung seon wins Gold in women's Taekwondo At 2012 London Olympics
Olympics
In 2008, she won the gold medal in the -67kg category at the Beijing Olympic Games, beating 2007 world lightweight (-63 kg) champion Karine Sergerie of Canada in the final.
In 2012, she won the gold medal in the -67kg category at the London Olympic Games, beating 2012 European Champion (-67 kg) Nur Tatar of Turkey in the final. She became the first Korean female athlete (and the second Korean) to defend an individual title in the Summer Olympics and to win an Olympic individual medal in a particular event in three consecutive Olympic Games, Jin Jong-oh in shooting having achieved the same feats for men's 50 m pistol earlier in the 2012 Summer Olympics. At 26, she became the youngest Korean to achieve these records. She also became the first woman ever to win three Olympic taekwondo medals.
