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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.

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.

References

1. ^ "첫 금메달 卓貞任" [First gold medal: Tak Jeong-Im]. Yonhap News Agency. 24 September 1990. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
2. "Tak Jeong-Im Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
3. "세번째 펜싱커플탄생" [Third fencing couple comes together]. Yonhap News Agency. 20 October 1992. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
4. "金承杓 申成子 '백년가약'" [Kim Seung-pyo, Shin Sung-ja's 'hundred-year wedding vow']. Yonhap News Agency. 22 March 1993. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

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