Achievements
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She is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2008 and 2012 Summer In 2008, she won the gold medal in the -67kg category at the Beijing Olympic Games, beating 2007 world lightweight (-63 kg) champion Karine Sergerie of Canada in the final. In 2012, she won the gold medal in the -67kg category at the London Olympic Games, beating 2012 European Champion (-67 kg) Nur Tatar of Turkey in the final. She became the first Korean female athlete (and the second Korean) to defend an individual title in the Summer and to win an Olympic individual medal in a particular event in three consecutive Olympic Games, Jin Jong-oh in shooting having achieved the same feats for men"s 50 m pistol earlier in the 2012 Summer She became the youngest Korean (at age 26) to achieve these records. She also became the first woman ever to win three Olympic taekwondo medals.
