Yoon Ji-su explained

Yoon Ji-su
Birth Date:	24 January 1993
Height:	1.70 m
Weight:	60 kg
Country:	South Korea
Hand:	right-handed
Natlcoach:	Han Joo-yeol
Headcoach:	Cho Jong-hyung
Fieranking:	current ranking

Yoon Ji-su (Korean: 윤지수, pronounced as /ko/ or pronounced as /ko/ pronounced as /ko/; 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 . 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

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]

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 6 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
2. News: [인천 아시안게임 기대주] 8. 펜싱 – 동의대 윤지수]. Busan Ilbo. 12 September 2014. ko.
3. News: 아빠는 던졌고 저는 찔러요. Busan Ilbo. 19 April 2010. ko.
4. News: [Asian Games] South Korea beats China for gold in women's sabre team event]. The Korea Herald. 23 September 2014.
5. News: 펜싱 역전드라마 윤지수ㆍ완투만 100차례 윤학길 '부전여전'. Hankook Ilbo. 28 July 2017. ko.
6. News: 윤학길 코치 딸 윤지수, 여자 사브르 '역전의 명수'로 우뚝. Yonhap News Agency. 28 July 2017. ko.
7. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
8. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
9. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
10. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
11. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 6 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
12. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
13. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
14. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
15. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
16. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
17. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
18. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
19. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
20. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
21. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 4 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
22. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website . 21 June 2022 . INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
23. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 6 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
24. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 6 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
25. Web site: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website. 6 December 2021. INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION – The International Fencing Federation official website.
26. News: 도쿄올림픽 펜싱 어벤져스, 모교 동의대 방문. Dong-Eui University. 30 August 2021. ko.
27. "목표를 향한 도전이 가장 아름답습니다 2018 자카르타-팔렘방 아시안 게임 펜싱 금메달리스트 구본길, 황선아, 윤지수 선수 (국민대학교 스포츠산업대학원)" (in Korean). UNIK webzine (Vol. 56). Kookmin University. April 2018.