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Sport: Taekwondo
Event: Women's 57kg
State: Victoria
Club: Hall's Taekwondo
Born: 1999
ABOUT STACEY
At age four, Stacey Hymer’s junior sporting career began rather similarly to any other Australian youth around the nation: through her family. Encouragement from her brother and father to adopt a traditional taekwondo regime focused on poomsae and self-defence was the basis for her genesis in the sport.
Stacey’s Olympic qualification was sealed in March 2020, when she cruised past Samoan Cecilia Theresa Vili Magele on the Gold Coast to join Reba Stewart as the two qualified Australian female athletes.
Following the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, Stacey remained committed to furthering the growth of martial arts within Australia, with the athlete hosting skill sessions for junior taekwondo clubs and fundraising for those suffering from mental illness throughout the nation.
Stacey made her Olympic debut in 2021 and faced the no.3 seed Skylar Park (CAN), going down 25 points to 15 in the first round of the 57kg division.
