Choi Ji-hyun

Choi Ji-hyun
nation	South Korea
birthday	9th March 1994 (age 26)
size	166 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × Universiade medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 5 × 0 × 1 ×
Short track world championships gold 2019 Sofia Season  Winter Universiade gold 2013 Trentino 3000 m relay  Short track junior world championships gold 2010 Taipei All-around gold 2010 Taipei 500 m gold 2010 Taipei 1000 m gold 2010 Taipei 1500 m gold 2010 Taipei 1500 m relay bronze 2010 Taipei 1500 m superfinals
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 20th October 2012  World Cup victories 2  1000 m world cup 10. ( 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1000 meters 0 1 0  Relay / team 2 0 1
last change: March 18, 2019

Choi Ji-hyun ( kor. 최지현 ; born March 9, 1994 ) is a South Korean short tracker .

Career

Choi started in 2010 in Taipei at the Junior World Championships and won almost all gold medals in women's competitions and only bronze in the superfinal over 1500 m. In the 2012/13 Short Track World Cup , Choi achieved a podium place with the relay in Calgary when it won gold. At the 2013 World Championships in Debrecen she was fourth with the relay and at the 2013 Winter Universiade in Trentino she won gold with the relay. In the 2018/19 season she won in Salt Lake City with the relay and took third place with the relay and second place over 1000 m in Dresden . She reached tenth place in the World Cup over 1000 m. At the 2019 World Championships in Sofia , she won the gold medal with the relay.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place
1.	December 21, 2012	Calgary 1st
2.	November 11, 2018	Salt Lake City 2

¹With Cho Ha-ri , Kim Min-jung and Shim Suk-hee .

²With Choi Min-jeong , Kim Ji-yoo and Noh Ah-rum .

Personal bests

• 500 m 43.880 sec. (set up on February 1, 2019 in Dresden)
• 1000 m 1: 29.334 min. (installed on November 10, 2018 in Salt Lake City)

Web links

• Choi Ji-hyun on The-Sports.org
• Choi Ji-hyun on The-Sports.org (season 2018/19)
• Choi Ji-hyun on the ISU side
• Choi Ji-hyun on the website of the Universiade in Trentino

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, Ji-hyun is the first name.