Yoon Ji-su
Personal information
Born	(1993-01-24) 24 January 1993 Busan, South Korea
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Country	South Korea
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Han Joo-yeol
Club	Seoul Metropolitan Government
Head coach	Cho Jong-hyung
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's sabre Representing  South Korea Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team World Championships 2017 Leipzig Team 2018 Wuxi Team 2019 Budapest Team 2023 Milan Team Asian Games 2014 Incheon Team 2018 Jakarta–Palembang Team 2022 Hangzhou Individual 2022 Hangzhou Team Asian Championships 2012 Wakayama Individual 2019 Chiba Individual 2012 Wakayama Team 2013 Shanghai Team 2015 Singapore Team 2014 Suwon Team 2016 Wuxi Team 2017 Hong Kong Team 2018 Bangkok Team 2019 Chiba Team 2016 Wuxi Individual

Yoon Ji-su (Korean: 윤지수, Korean pronunciation: [jun.dʑi.su] or [jun] [tɕi.su]; born 24 January 1993) is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.^[1]

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 younger of two children and only daughter of retired baseball player and coach Yoon Hak-kil. She was born and raised in Busan as her father was a "one-team man" who spent his entire playing career and part of his coaching career with Lotte Giants. Her father had been initially opposed to her becoming a professional athlete but relented after much persuasion.^[2]

Yoon was initially a taekwondo athlete in elementary school before switching to fencing in middle school.^[3] 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 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 and Lee Ra-jin and they won silver at the Asian Championships and gold at the Asian Games.^[4]

Yoon won her first ever Fencing World Cup medal in October 2015, at the Orléans competition. She was joint bronze medalist with Ibtihaj Muhammad. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, 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.^[5][6]

Medal record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[7]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[8]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[9]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Women's Sabre	3rd[10]

Asian Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2012	Wakayama, Japan	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[11]
2012	Wakayama, Japan	Team Women's Sabre	1st[12]
2013	Shanghai, China	Team Women's Sabre	1st[13]
2014	Suwon, South Korea	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[14]
2015	Singapore	Team Women's Sabre	1st[15]
2016	Wuxi, China	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[16]
2016	Wuxi, China	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[17]
2017	Hong Kong, China	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[18]
2018	Bangkok, Thailand	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[19]
2019	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Women's Sabre	1st[20]
2019	Tokyo, Japan	Team Women's Sabre	2nd[21]
2022	Seoul, South Korea	Team Women's Sabre	1st[22]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2021-11-12	Orléans, France	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[23]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2015-10-30	Orléans, France	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[24]
2021-03-12	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Sabre	3rd[25]

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.^[2][26] She is enrolled as a graduate student at Kookmin University, studying sports psychology.^[27]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yoon Ji-su.

• Yoon Ji-su at the International Fencing Federation
• Yoon Ji-su at Olympics.com
• Yoon Ji-su at Olympedia