Tak Jung-im (born 4 March 1967) is a South Korean fencer.

Career

Tak competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She went on to win a gold medal in the individual foil event at the 1990 Asian Games.

Tak Jung-im

Personal life

Tak grew up in Busan, where she took up fencing as a first-year student at Namdo Girls' Middle School (南都여중). She continued in the sport after she went on to Yeongdo Girls' High School (영도여고), and was chosen for the South Korean national team in her second year of high school. Soon after the 1990 Asian Games, she retired from sport and married fellow fencer Hong Yeong-Seung, one of several marriages between fencing team members around that time.

Tak Jung-im

References

1967 births

Living people

South Korean female foil fencers

Olympic fencers for South Korea

Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Sportspeople from Busan

Asian Games medalists in fencing

Fencers at the 1986 Asian Games

Fencers at the 1990 Asian Games

Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea

Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea

Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games

Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games

Tak Jung-im