Seo Su-yeon (, born January 8, 1986) is a South Korean para table tennis player. She won a silver medal and a bronze at the

2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

. She also won two silver medals at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

held in Tokyo, Japan. She is coached by Cho Jae-kwan.

Personal life

When she was 18, Seo aspired to be a model and visited a hospital to correct her posture. Instead, she was paralysed by an injection. She began playing table tennis while she fought the hospital in courts.

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* * 1986 births Living people South Korean female table tennis players Paralympic table tennis players for South Korea Paralympic silver medalists for South Korea Paralympic bronze medalists for South Korea Paralympic medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2014 Asian Para Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Para Games People with paraplegia People from Mokpo Sportspeople from South Jeolla Province 21st-century South Korean women {{SouthKorea-sport-bio-stub