Name Lim O-kyeong | Role Olympic athlete | |
Awards IHF World Player of the Year - Women | ||
Lim O-Kyeong (born in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do, December 11, 1971) is a female South Korean handball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she was part of the South Korea national team which won the gold medal. She played all five matches and scored 30 goals.
In 1994 she moved to Japan to play for the Hiroshima Maple Reds. In 1996 she became a player-manager and led her team to a Japan Handball League championship.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she won the silver medal as member of the South Korean team. She played all five matches and scored 41 goals.
Lim was voted World Handball Player of the Year 1996 by the International Handball Federation.
In 2004, she won the silver medal again at the Athens Olympics. At the competition she played all seven matches and scored 14 goals.
In July 2008 she was hired to become Seoul City Hall Handball Club's player-manager.