JEON Hee Sook

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	13	-
2012	London, GBR	20	3

World Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	19	8
2018	Wuxi, CHN	34	4
2017	Leipzig, GER	12	11
2015	Moscow, RUS	12	5
2014	Kazan, RUS	18	4
2013	Budapest, HUN	19	4
2011	Catania, ITA	9	3
2010	Paris, FRA	5	3
2009	Antalya, TUR	2	6
2006	Turin, ITA	27	3

Asian Games

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2018	Indonesia	1	3

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	1	2
2018	Bangkok, THA	2	1
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	3	1

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019/2020	1 x 12th, 1 x 19th, 1 x 33rd	2 x 9th, 1 x 10th, 1 x 12th
2018/2019	1 x 10th, 1 x 35th, 1 x 36th	1 x 8th
2017/2018	1 x 2nd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 33rd	1 x 5th, 1 x 8th, 1 x 9th
2016/2017	1 x 6th, 1 x 20th	-

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual
2020/2021	1 x 33rd
2019/2020	1 x 9th
2018/2019	1 x 3rd, 1 x 9th, 1 x 18th
2017/2018	1 x 33rd, 1 x 34th, 1 x 37th
2016/2017	1 x 13th, 1 x 20th, 1 x 33rd

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
2	2017/2018	Foil Individual	World Cup	Tauberbischofsheim, GER
3	2018/2019	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Anaheim, CA, USA
5	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Algiers, ALG
6	2017/2018	Foil Individual	World Cup	Saint-Maur, FRA
6	2016/2017	Foil Individual	World Cup	Algiers, ALG
8	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Tauberbischofsheim, GER
8	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Saint-Maur, FRA
9	2019/2020	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Turin, ITA
9	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Kazan, RUS
9	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Saint-Maur, FRA
9	2018/2019	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Shanghai, CHN
9	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Tauberbischofsheim, GER

Spending time with her dogs. (Instagram profile, 31 Oct 2020; ktv.go.kr, 23 Jan 2019)

Athlete

Korea National Sport University, Seoul, KOR

Korean

Seoul Metropolitan Government [Republic of Korea]

Cho Jong-Hyung [club], KOR; Kim Young Ki [national], KOR

Left (hankookilbo.com, 28 Nov 2019)

In September 2019 she injured her ankle during a national team training session held at the Marine Corps Training Camp in the Republic of Korea. (news.sbs.co.kr, 18 Sep 2019)

She injured the little finger on her right hand during the final of the team foil competition at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 May 2021; chosun.com, 24 Sep 2014)

She injured her neck in a car accident in May 2014 and was in hospital for two weeks. (zum.com, 17 Oct 2014)

She injured her ankle during training ahead of the 2013 World Cup event in Seoul. She was still able to compete and went on to place third at the tournament. (SportsDeskOnline, 09 Jul 2015; sportschosun.com, 28 Apr 2013)

She required surgery on a slipped disc in her back in December 2012. (sportschosun.com, 28 Apr 2013)

She underwent foot surgery in 2002. (sbs.co.kr, 21 May 2012)

She began fencing in 1997 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. (newsis.com, 21 Sep 2014)

She competed in athletics at national competitions while she was in primary school. She was encouraged to begin fencing by Korean coach Choi Myung-Jin after starting middle school. (skyedaily.com, 30 Oct 2018; osen.mt.co.kr, 21 May 2012)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (FIE Facebook page, 20 Apr 2020; hankookilbo.com, 28 Nov 2019)

Korean fencer Kim Young-Ho. (hankookilbo.com, 28 Nov 2019)

Coach Cho Jong-Hyung and her mother. (hankookilbo.com, 28 Nov 2019; ktv.go.kr, 23 Jan 2019)

"Be earnest." (ktv.go.kr, 23 Jan 2019)

In 2018 she was presented with the Best Female Fencer Award by the Korean Fencing Federation. (jndn.com, 20 Dec 2018)