Choi Injeong

South Korean épée fencer Choi Injeong is an Asian Championships and World Cup title-holder, and an Olympic and World Championships silver medallist. She represents both the South Korean national team and the provincial club of Gyeryong City Hall, and has been recognised with a Citizen Honour Award in Korea’s Geumsan County.

Choi began fencing in her teens, and would make her international debut in 2011. That year, she marked her entry by winning an individual gold in the women’s épée at the Asian Fencing Championships in Seoul, where she also picked up a silver medal as part of the team event. She has experienced continued success at the tournament in years since, including securing a second individual gold in Suwon City in 2014, and further team silvers at Wakayama 2012 and Shanghai 2013.

Choi made her Olympic debut at the London 2012 Games, where she advanced to the third round of the individual event to rank an impressive twelfth overall. In the team event, she would experience her greatest international success yet, winning a silver medal as part of the South Korean women’s épée team alongside Choi Eun-Sook, Shin A-Lam and Jung Hyo-Jung. Four years later in Rio de Janeiro, Choi would compete at her second Olympics, this time making it to the quarter-finals in the individual competition.

At the Asian Games, Choi picked up a team silver and individual bronze in Incheon in 2014, and repeated the same feat in Jakarta in 2018. Elsewhere, she has earned a team silver at the 2018 World Fencing Championships in Wuxi, has earned Grand Prix medals in Xuzhou, Budapest and Doha, and claimed her first World Cup gold in Dubai in 2019.