Lim O-kyeong
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Lim O-Kyeong (Korean: Script error: No such module "Lang".; Hanja: Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler; born December 11, 1971), also spelled as Im Oh-Gyeong, is a South Korean politician who previously competed in three Olympics as a South Korean handball player.[1][2]
Sports and Education
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she was part of the South Korea national team which won the gold medal. She played all five matches and scored 30 goals.
In 1994 she moved to Japan to play for the Hiroshima Maple Reds. In 1996 she became a player-manager and led her team to a Japan Handball League championship.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she won the silver medal as member of the South Korean team. She played all five matches and scored 41 goals.
Lim was voted World Handball Player of the Year 1996[3][4] by the International Handball Federation.
In 2004, she won the silver medal again at the Athens Olympics. At the competition she played all seven matches and scored 14 goals.
In July 2008 she was hired as Seoul City Hall Handball Club's player-manager becoming the first woman to coach a professional Ball game team in South Korea.[5]
She completed her tertiary education at Korea National Sport University in Seoul for undergraduate, master's and doctorate degrees.[6]
Politics
She previously served as a Korean Sport & Olympic Committee board member and as a non-executive director of the government-funded Korea Sports Promotion Foundation.[6]
In preparation for the 2020 general election, she was approached and recruited by the ruling Democratic Party. She stated that her decision to join the political party was inspired by President Moon Jae-in.[5]
Electoral history
| Election | Year | District | Party Affiliation | Votes | Percentage of votes | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21st National Assembly General Election | 2020 | Gyeonggi Gwangmyeong A | Democratic Party | 43,019 | 47.66% | Won |
| 22nd National Assembly General Election | 2024 | Gyeonggi Gwangmyeong A | Democratic Party | 47,716 | 58.73% | Won |
Awards
- File:ROK Order of Sports Merit Cheongnyong (1st Class) ribbon.png Order of Sports Merit by the government of South Korea (1992)[6]
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References
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- ↑ Profile: "O-Kyeong Lim" Template:Webarchive – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on December 23, 2007)
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- ↑ "World Handball Players"– worldhandball (Retrieved on December 23, 2007) Template:Webarchive
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External links
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- South Korean female handball players
- Olympic handball players for South Korea
- Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
- Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- People from Jeongeup
- Democratic Party of Korea politicians
- 21st-century South Korean women politicians
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