Oh Hye-ri | |
Headercolor: | lightblue |
Nationality: | South Korean |
Birth Date: | 30 April 1988 |
Height: | 182cm |
Weight: | 69kg |
Sport: | Taekwondo |
Updated: | 19 September 2018 |
Oh Hye-ri (; pronounced as /ko/; born 30 April 1988) is a South Korean taekwondo athlete.
In 2011, she won silver at the World Championships,[1] then in 2015, she became the world champion in middleweight.
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.[2] [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.