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

sabre A sabre or saber ( ) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the Early Modern warfare, early modern and Napoleonic period, Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such a ...

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 youngest of two children and only daughter of retired baseball player and coach . She was born and raised in

Busan Busan (), officially Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second list of cities in South Korea by population, most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million as of 2024. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economi ...

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 () are a South Korean professional baseball, professional baseball team based in Busan. They are a member of the KBO League. The Lotte Giants are owned by Lotte Corporation. From 1982 through 1985, they played at Gudeok Baseball ...

. 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.

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, were 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,

Hwang Seon-a Hwang Seon-a (,; 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 participated in the ...

and

Lee Ra-jin Lee Ra-Jin (; 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 South Korea at ...

and they won silver at the Asian Championships and gold at the

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the 1951 Asian Games, first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until ...

. Yoon won her first ever

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

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

, 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, 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 a Private university, private research university established in 1946 in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It has historic significance, as it was founded during by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and is ...

, 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 sportswomen Fencers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for South Korea