Won twice in the Olympic team competition and won gold in the AG Sun individual competition last year… “Please support our juniors who will shine even brighter.”
Jisoo Yoon advances to the Sabers round of 16
(Paris = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim In-cheol = Korea’s Yoon Ji-soo is happy after winning against Uzbekistan’s Daybekova in the round of 32 of the women’s fencing saber individual event at the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on the 29th (local time). 2024.7.29 yatoya@yna.co.kr
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = Yoon Ji-su (31), the leading female saber fencing player in Korea who won a gold medal in the individual event at last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games and a silver medal in the team event at this year’s Paris Olympics, announced her retirement as a player.
On the 16th, after the fencing schedule for the 105th National Sports Festival ended, Jisoo Yoon announced on her personal social media account, “I finished my 18-year career as an athlete and finished my last match as a Seoul City Hall athlete.”
On this day, in the women’s general saber team competition at the National Sports Festival, he participated in the Seoul selection team with Jeon Ha-young, Hong Ha-eun (hereinafter referred to as Seoul Metropolitan Government), and Joo-eun Lee (Korea National Sport University) and jointly won a silver medal. He said, “My official retirement is in January next year, but it is a competition where I will be on the piste as a player. “There probably won’t be any more,” he explained.
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Yoon Ji-su, famous as the daughter of Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) Talent Donation Committee member Hak-gil Yoon, who was the ‘ace’ of the Lotte Giants in professional baseball in the past, is a player who has played a key role in the Korean women’s saber team with the Taegeuk symbol since 2010.
Women’s fencing saber team wins first-ever silver medal
(Paris = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim In-cheol = The Korean national team, which won the silver medal, is taking a commemorative photo at the 2024 Paris Olympics fencing women’s saber team event ceremony held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on the afternoon of the 3rd (local time).
From left, coaches Jeon Eun-hye, Yoon Ji-su, Choi Se-bin, Jeon Ha-young, and Lee Guk-hyun. 2024.8.4 yatoya@yna.co.kr
She participated in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro, 2021 Tokyo, and this year’s Paris Olympics. In Tokyo, she contributed to the Korean women’s saber winning the team event (bronze medal) for the first time in its history at the Olympics. In Paris, as the eldest member of the national team, she advanced to the finals of the team event for the first time and contributed to the silver medal. did it
He is also a member of consecutive gold medal winners in the team event at the 2014 Incheon and 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, and he also won an individual gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held last year, making his presence known as a representative runner.
In addition, he held one silver medal and three bronze medals in the team event at the World Championships, and also reached the top of the individual event at the Asian Championships in 2012 and 2019.
After advancing to the team finals and winning a silver medal amid the performances of juniors born in the 2000s at the Paris Olympics, Yoon Ji-soo said, “I think this is my last Olympics,” and in about two months, it was announced that she would end her career as an athlete.
Jisoo Yoon wins gold!
(Hangzhou = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim In-cheol = Korea’s Ji-su Yun is happy after winning the gold medal in the women’s saber individual fencing final at the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games held at the Hangzhou Electronic University gymnasium in China on the 26th. 2023.9.26 yatoya@yna.co.kr
Jisoo Yoon said, “As a Korean fencer, I was very happy and my heart was full. I am very grateful to the fans who came all the way to cheer on me and to everyone who supported Korean fencing day and night.”
He went on to say, “Now I am preparing little by little for a new journey.”
Regarding his future plans, he said, “I think it will be a chance to meet and teach promising players who will make Korean fencing shine better than me. I will work hard to make it happen, so I would really appreciate it if you could keep an eye on me in the future.”
In the Korean women’s saber, Kim Ji-yeon (36), the individual gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics who gave up her Taegeuk mark last year, completely completed her career as a player through this National Sports Festival, and Yoon Ji-soo also announced her intention to retire, entering a period of full-fledged generational change.
Jisoo Yoon added, “Please give a lot of support to our juniors who will shine even brighter in the future.”
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