Hwang Kyung-seon (, born May 21, 1986), also spelled Hwang Kyung-sun, is a female

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Taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

practitioner. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from

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In 2008, she won the gold medal in the -67kg category at the Beijing Olympic Games, beating 2007 world lightweight (-63 kg) champion Karine Sergerie of

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in the final. In 2012, she won the gold medal in the -67kg category at the London Olympic Games, beating 2012 European Champion (-67 kg) Nur Tatar of

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in the final. She became the first Korean female athlete (and the second Korean) to defend an individual title in the Summer Olympics and to win an Olympic individual medal in a particular event in three consecutive Olympic Games,

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in shooting having achieved the same feats for men's 50 m pistol earlier in the

. At 26, she became the youngest Korean to achieve these records. She also became the first woman ever to win three Olympic taekwondo medals. She has won 2 gold medals and 1 bronze medal.

References

Hwang Kyung-seon profile on DatabaseOlympics.com

External links

* 1986 births Asian Games medalists in taekwondo Living people Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in taekwondo Olympic taekwondo practitioners for South Korea Sportspeople from Namyangju South Korean female taekwondo practitioners Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2006 Asian Games Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2012 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Summer World University Games medalists in taekwondo Kyung-seon FISU World University Games silver medalists for South Korea World Taekwondo Championships medalists Martial artists from Gyeonggi Province 21st-century South Korean sportswomen Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade {{SouthKorea-taekwondo-bio-stub