Lim O-kyeong

{{Short description|South Korean handball player and politician (born 1971)}}

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| birth_place = Jeongeup, South Korea

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|12|11|df=y}}

| alma_mater = Korea National Sport University

| party = Democratic

| office = Member of the National Assembly

| constituency = Gyeonggi Gwangmyeong A

| termstart = 30 May 2020

| predecessor = Baek Jae-hyun

| native_name = {{nobold|임오경}}

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Lim O-Kyeong ({{korean|hangul=임오경|hanja=林五卿}}; born December 11, 1971), also spelled as Im Oh-Gyeong, is a South Korean politician who previously competed in three Olympics as a South Korean handball player.[http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LIMOKY01 Profile: "O-Kyeong Lim"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929145551/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LIMOKY01 |date=2007-09-29 }} – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on December 23, 2007){{Cite web|url=http://www.kmaeil.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=218948|script-title=ko:임오경 "광명을 국가대표급 도시로 만들겠다" 당선소감|date=2020-04-16|website=경인매일|language=ko|access-date=2020-04-16}}

Sports and Education

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[http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idcat=173&idart=516 Previous World Handball Players] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101212933/http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idcat=173&idart=516 |date=2008-01-01 }} (Retrieved on December 14, 2007)[http://www.worldhandball.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?menuid=550&languageid=1&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 "World Handball Players"]– worldhandball'' (Retrieved on December 23, 2007) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209172254/http://www.worldhandball.com/%28S%28rfm4kf45nazdcs55q4riod55%29%29/DesktopDefault.aspx?menuid=550&languageid=1&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 |date=February 9, 2012 }} 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 as Seoul City Hall Handball Club's player-manager becoming the first woman to coach a professional Ball game team in South Korea.

She completed her tertiary education at Korea National Sport University in Seoul for undergraduate, master's and doctorate degrees.

Politics

She previously served as a Korean Sport & Olympic Committee board member and as a non-executive director of the government-funded Korea Sports Promotion Foundation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thegmpost.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=10211|script-title=ko:임오경 1호 공약 발표, 광명을 스포츠.문화예술의 메카로 만들겠다...4/2까지 분야별 공약 매일 업데이트~~|date=2020-03-26|website=광명포스트|language=ko|access-date=2020-04-16}}

In preparation for the 2020 general election, she was approached and recruited by the ruling Democratic Party. She stated that her decision to join the political party was inspired by President Moon Jae-in.{{Cite web|url=http://www.womennews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=195879|script-title=ko:'우생순' 주인공 임오경, 민주당 선택한 이유 "문재인 대통령 존경"|date=2020-01-30|website={{ill|The Women's News|ko|여성신문}}|language=ko|access-date=2020-04-16}}