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My Take
Nam Hyun-Hee is exactly the kind of athlete I love discovering, a fencer who reached the absolute summit of her sport. Her 2008 Olympic silver in foil came down to a single touch, a 6-5 loss to the legendary Valentina Vezzali in the final, and honestly, losing that narrowly to one of the greatest fencers ever is no shame at all. She added a team bronze in 2012, beating France for the medal. At 154 cm she was small even by fencing standards, which makes her speed and timing all the more remarkable. Coming out of Seongnam and training at Korea National Sport University, she represents the depth of South Korean fencing beautifully.
Overview
Nam Hyun-Hee (Korean: 남현희; Hanja: 南賢喜; Korean pronunciation: [nam.ɦjʌn.ɦi] or [nam] [hjʌn.ɦi]; born 29 September 1981) is a South Korean foil fencer. She is left-handed. She won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics after losing 6-5 to Valentina Vezzali in the final. She was also a team bronze medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics, with South Korea beating France in the bronze medal match.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Nam Hyun-Hee
- Name (Japanese)
- 南賢喜
- Reading
- なむ・ひょんひ
- Born
- September 29, 1981 (age 44)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Rooster
- Origin
- Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 154 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- fencer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Seongnam Girls' High School
- University
- Korea National Sport University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fencing2020/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E8%B3%A2%E5%96%9C
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.