Asian Games – Hero of Day2 – South Korea’s Oh Yeon Ji

The Asian Boxing Confederation’s project the Hero of the Day will be published after each competition day during the boxing tournament of the Asian Games. The first winner was Turkmenistan’s Hursand Imankuliyev and following his South Korea’s two-time ASBC Asian Women’s Champion Oh Yeon Ji became the Hero of Day2.
Oh Yeon Ji was born in the city of Incheon on August 4 in 1990. She began boxing at the age of 15 and her former boxer uncle Jeon Jin Cheol inspired her to start the sport in South Korea. She was involved to the national team three years later in 2008 and attended in the ASBC Asian Confederation Women’s Boxing Championships in Guwahati.
Oh’s first big success was a quarter-final place in the Jeju 2014 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships but her best time has come in the recent three years and won two gold medals in the recent two editions of the ASBC Asian Confederation Women’s Boxing Championships in 2015 and in 2017.
Oh had to start her campaign in the Asian Games against Vietnam’s Luu Thi Duyen which was the repeat final of the ASBC Asian Confederation Women’s Boxing Championships but the Korean boxer defeated her top rival once again. This time the verdict was unanimous decision in favour of Oh who controlled their re-match in Jakarta.

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