Oh Hye-ri

Oh Hye-ri
Personal information
NationalitySouth Korean
Born (1988-04-30) 30 April 1988
Height182 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight69 kg (152 lb)[1]
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio De Janeiro 67 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Chelyabinsk 73 kg
Silver medal – second place 2011 Gyeongju 73 kg
Silver medal – second place 2017 Muju 73 kg
Grand Slam
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Wuxi 67 kg
Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place 2015 Moscow 67 kg
Gold medal – first place 2016 Baku 67 kg
Silver medal – second place 2017 Rabat 67 kg
Silver medal – second place 2017 Abidjan 67 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Manchester 67 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Moscow 67 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Rome 67 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Moscow 67 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Taoyuan 67 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Astana +73 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ho Chi Minh City 73 kg
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2009 Belgrad 72 kg
Updated on 19 September 2018

Oh Hye-ri (Korean: 오혜리; Korean pronunciation: [o.ɦje̞.ɾi]; born 30 April 1988) is a South Korean taekwondo athlete.

Career

In 2011, she won silver at the World Championships,[2] then in 2015, she became the world champion in middleweight.[3]

She represented South Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the women's 67 kg where she won her first Olympic gold medal.[1][3]

She became the third Korean to win an Olympic gold medal in the 67 kg division (Lee Sun-Hee in 2000 and Hwang Kyung-Seon in 2008 and 2012).

She returned at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as the head coach for Korean men's competitor Seo Geon-woo at the Men's 80 kg division.


References

  1. ^ a b c "Hyeri Oh". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Oh Hye-ri". Taewondodata. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
  3. ^ a b "Rio 2016: S. Korean Oh Hye-ri wins taekwondo gold". The Korea Times. 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
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