Lim O-Kyeong

This is a Korean name; the family name is Lim.

Olympic medal record
Women's handball
Competitor for  South Korea
Gold	1992 Barcelona	Team
Silver	1996 Atlanta	Team
Silver	2004 Athens	Team

Korean name
Hangul	임오경
Hanja	林五卿
Revised Romanization	Im O-gyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Im O-kyŏng

Lim O-Kyeong (born in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do, December 11, 1971) is a female South Korean handball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.^[1]

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^[2][3] 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 to become Seoul City Hall Handball Club's player-manager.

References

1. ^ Profile: "O-Kyeong Lim" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on December 23, 2007)
2. ^ Previous World Handball Players (Retrieved on December 14, 2007)
3. ^ "World Handball Players" – worldhandball (Retrieved on December 23, 2007)

Awards
Preceded by Erzsébet Kocsis	IHF World Player of the Year – Women 1996	Succeeded by Anja Andersen

Persondata
Name	Lim, O-Kyeong
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Date of birth	December 11, 1971
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