Nam Hyun-Hee

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.

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Name (English)

Nam Hyun-Hee

Name (Japanese)

南賢喜

Reading

なむ・ひょんひ

Born

September 29, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Height

154 cm

Occupation

fencer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rooster

High school

Seongnam Girls' High School

University

Korea National Sport University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fencing2020/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam%20Hyun-hee
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E8%B3%A2%E5%96%9C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484197

Tags

• Gyeonggi Province
• fencer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.