Lim Su-Jeong (taekwondo)

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

Lim denied their first international title fights at junior Asia Championships 2001 in Hua Chang, she won in the category up to 49 kg, 2003 in Ho Chi Minh City in the category up to 55 kg the title. At the Asian Games in Busan in 2002, she won a complete surprise in the class up to 51 kg gold medal and won her first international success with 16 years in the adult area. In the following years further successes were, first, only with gold at the Universiade 2007 in Bangkok Lim was back on track. She qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In the spring weight to 57 kilograms, they could after two opening victories in the semifinals Veronica Calabrese confidently conquer and reach the final. There she narrowly won against Azize Tanrikulu, the crucial point they scored only 20 seconds before the end of the fight, and won the gold medal in the sport 's biggest success of her career.

Their first World Cup in Copenhagen in 2009 was also successful for Lim. She reached in the class up to 62 kg the final, where she defeated Zhang Hua and won her first world title. Two years later she again won a medal at the World Championships in Gyeongju with bronze. In the semifinals, the class up to 57 kg she succumbed to the later champion Hou Yuzhuo.