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
2016 Rio De Janeiro 67 kg
World Championships
2015 Chelyabinsk 73 kg
2011 Gyeongju 73 kg
2017 Muju 73 kg
Grand Slam
2017 Wuxi 67 kg
Grand Prix
2015 Moscow 67 kg
2016 Baku 67 kg
2017 Rabat 67 kg
2017 Abidjan 67 kg
2015 Manchester 67 kg
2017 Moscow 67 kg
2018 Rome 67 kg
2018 Moscow 67 kg
2018 Taoyuan 67 kg
Asian Championships
2010 Astana +73 kg
2018 Ho Chi Minh City 73 kg
Universiade
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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