Hyun Hee (born October 4, 1976 in

Seongnam Seongnam () is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million. Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul. It is largely a residential cit ...

Gyeonggi-do Gyeonggi-do (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Its name, ''Gyeonggi'', means "京 (the capital) and 畿 (the surrounding area)". Thus, ''Gyeonggi-do'' can be translated as "Seoul and the surrounding areas of Seoul". Seoul, the na ...

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) is a retired

épée The ( or , ), sometimes spelled epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains ...

fencer. At the 2002 FIE World Championships Hyun won the women's individual épée final match over

Imke Duplitzer Imke Duplitzer (born 28 July 1975 in Karlsruhe) is a German épée fencing, fencer. Imke is a four time Olympian (2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012) where she placed 10th, 5th, 5th, and 29th respectively (in the individual competition). She also fenced ...

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15–11. She, along with Chinese fencer

Tan Xue Tan Xue (; born January 30, 1984, in Tianjin) is a female Chinese fencer who won silver medals in the Sabre Individual at the 2004 Summer Olympics and in the Team Sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She became world champion in 2002, defeatin ...

were the first Asian fencers to win gold medals at the World Championships. In that year, Hyun was named South Korean Sportswoman of the Year.

Achievements

: 2002 World Fencing Championships, Individual épée

References

1976 births Living people South Korean female épée fencers Asian Games medalists in fencing Fencers at the 2002 Asian Games Korea National Sport University alumni People from Seongnam Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Sportspeople from Gyeonggi Province 21st-century South Korean women {{SouthKorea-fencing-bio-stub