Meet the 67-year-old nun who is a martial arts world champion

Linda Sim, 67, a Catholic nun from Singapore, is the new environment taekwondo winner.
- 67-year-old nun Sister Linda Sim has come to be a taekwondo earth winner.
- Sister Linda scooped the gold medal for her expertise at the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championship.
- Linda became section of a Catholic spiritual order, the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood, additional than 40 yrs back but observed no conflict concerning religion and taekwondo.
- She has been training the martial artwork for decades.
This 67-calendar year-previous Catholic nun has turn out to be a taekwondo globe champion right after scooping a gold medal for her martial arts techniques.
Sister Linda Sim – from Singapore – may well be just 4ft 11 inches (1.49m) tall, but she advised how the title built her experience “on major of the earth”.
She explained to local media: “I have usually been petite and modest-framed. If I can run and kick, I don’t have to carry a weapon to defend myself.”
Sister Linda – who has been finding out the Korean martial artwork for many years – took the seniors gold medal at the Entire world Taekwondo Poomsae Championship, in Goyang, South Korea. Poomsae are where a competitor has to demonstrate their skill to defeat a collection of imaginary opponents.
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Linda Sim, 67, a Catholic nun from Singapore, is the new environment taekwondo champion.
Linda Sim, 67, a Catholic nun from Singapore, is the new planet taekwondo winner.
Sister Linda became part of a Catholic spiritual purchase, the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood, extra than 40 years ago but noticed no conflict in between faith and taekwondo.
“Jesus is my first like, and taekwondo is my enthusiasm simply because it provides me an prospect to meet up with with plenty of persons in a non-churchy way. Religious everyday living is a vocation, a life span calling to a way of daily life,” she reported.
“As a coordinator, my main occupation is coordinating concerning our motherhouse and our central management crew in Surrey, England, guaranteeing the lifestyle and mission of our sisters in Singapore. There are 21 of us.”
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Linda Sim, 67, a Catholic nun from Singapore, is the new entire world taekwondo champion.
Linda Sim, 67, a Catholic nun from Singapore, is the new entire world taekwondo champion.
The sister explained that she began practising taekwondo when she was 17 several years old at a church, where they hosted a martial arts course and swiftly turned “fascinated”. She started taking component in global competitions in 2011, using a bronze medal in 2018. She has now come to be the first Singaporean to acquire the gold.
Speaking about her accomplishment, she said, “It will not matter irrespective of whether I am 67 or 7, standing at the podium in the gold medal situation, I just felt on leading of the entire world.”
She stated that her practice of the martial art does not contradict her spiritual beliefs because she tactics it in a way in which she would only ever use it to defend and not to attack.
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