Yoon Ji-su ( ko, 윤지수, or ; born 24 January 1993) is a South Korean right-handed

sabre A sabre ( French: �sabʁ or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as th ...

fencer. Yoon is a four-time team Asian champion and a two-time individual Asian champion. A two-time Olympian, Yoon is a 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist.

Early life

Yoon is the younger of two children and only daughter of retired baseball player and coach Yoon Hak-kil. She was born and raised in

Busan Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, w ...

as her father was a "one-team man" who spent his entire playing career and part of his coaching career with

Lotte Giants The Lotte Giants ( ko, 롯데 자이언츠) are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Busan. They are a member of the KBO League. The Lotte Giants are owned by Lotte Corporation, which also owns the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Pro ...

. Her father had been initially opposed to her becoming a professional athlete but relented after much persuasion. Yoon was initially a taekwondo athlete in elementary school before switching to fencing in middle school. As a high school student, she participated in the 2010

Junior World Fencing Championships The World Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships are an annual international fencing competition held by the International Fencing Federation. History Junior World Fencing Championships for athletes up to 20 years old. Also at the same time and ...

Career

Yoon was first selected for the senior national team in 2011 and won individual gold at the 2012 Asian Championships. She did not participate in the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

as the women's team sabre was not in rotation and she was not ranked high enough to be selected for the individual event. In 2014, she was part of the team along with

Kim Ji-yeon Kim Ji-yeon (Hangul: 김지연; or ; born 12 March 1988) is a South Korean left-handed sabre fencer. Kim is a five-time team Asian champion and four-time individual Asian champion. A three-time Olympian, Kim is a 2021 team Olympic bronz ...

Hwang Seon-a Hwang Seon-a ( ko, 황선아,; born 16 September 1989) is a South Korean fencer. She earned a gold medal for South Korea in women's team sabre at the 2014 Asian Games along with teammates Kim Ji-yeon, Lee Ra-jin, and Yoon Ji-su. She participa ...

and

Lee Ra-jin Lee Ra-Jin ( ko, 이 라진; born January 10, 1990, in Seoul) is a South Korean sabre fencer. She won a silver medal, as a member of the South Korean fencing team, in the same weapon at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. Lee represented ...

and they won silver at the

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and gold at the

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until t ...

. Yoon won her first ever

Fencing World Cup The FIE Fencing World Cup is an international fencing competition held by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. In each weapon (Men's and Women's Épée, Sabre and Foil), three Grand Prix, five World Cup events and several satellite events ar ...

medal in October 2015, at the Orléans competition. She was joint bronze medalist with

Ibtihaj Muhammad Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer and member of the United States fencing team. She is known for being the first Muslim American woman to wear a headscarf while competing for the United States in the Olympics ...

. At the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, she only participated in the team event but they failed to win a medal after losing to Ukraine at the first stage. She won her first World Championships medal when they won silver in the team event at the 2017 World Championships.

Medal record

Olympic Games

World Championship

Asian Championship

Grand Prix

World Cup

Personal life

Yoon attended

Dong-Eui University Dong-Eui University is one of the leading private universities in Busan, a metropolitan city on the southeastern coast of South Korea. The university has 10 colleges, 116 master and doctoral courses in six graduate schools, with 22,992 students a ...

, one of the few universities with a fencing team, and was contemporaries with fellow sabre fencer Kim Jun-ho. She is enrolled as a graduate student at

Kookmin University Kookmin University () is the first private university founded after the liberation of the Republic of Korea from Japan. The campus is located in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea. The KMU was established in 1946. Gu kim, Soang Jo and Ikhee Shin, who w ...

, studying sports psychology.목표를 향한 도전이 가장 아름답습니다 2018 자카르타-팔렘방 아시안 게임 펜싱 금메달리스트 구본길, 황선아, 윤지수 선수 (국민대학교 스포츠산업대학원)
(in Korean). ''UNIK'' webzine (Vol. 56).

. April 2018.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Ji-su 1993 births Living people South Korean female sabre fencers Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for South Korea Fencers at the 2014 Asian Games Fencers at the 2018 Asian Games Fencers at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Asian Games medalists in fencing Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Sportspeople from Busan World Fencing Championships medalists Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in fencing Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea Kookmin University alumni Dong-Eui University alumni 21st-century South Korean women