Kim Bo-reum

Kim Bo-reum
nation	South Korea
birthday	6th February 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Daegu , South Korea
size	163 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Mass start  Individual distance world championships bronze 2013 Sochi Team tracking silver 2016 Kolomna Mass start gold 2017 Gangneung Mass start silver 2020 Salt Lake City Mass start  Winter Asian Games silver 2011 Astana 3000 m gold 2017 Sapporo 5000 m silver 2017 Sapporo 3000 m silver 2017 Sapporo Team tracking bronze 2017 Sapporo Mass start  Winter Universiade gold 2013 Trentino 1500 m silver 2013 Trentino 3000 m
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 18, 2011  World Cup victories 6th  Total toilet mass start 1. ( 2012/13 , 2016/17 , 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Team competition 0 2 3  Mass start 6th 3 5
last change: February 20, 2020

Kim Bo-reum ( kor. 김 보름 ; born February 6, 1993 in Daegu ) is a South Korean speed skater . She currently holds the South Korean speed records over 3000 and 5000 meters.

Life

Kim started with the short track discipline , but switched to speed skating in 2010 . The reason she cites the Olympic victory of Lee Seung-hoon , who also changed disciplines and won the gold medal in speed skating in 2010. She won a silver medal over 3000 m at the Winter Asian Games 2011 in Astana and Almaty . At the speed skating single-distance world championships in 2013 , she won bronze in the team competition. At the Winter Universiade 2013 she won a silver (3000 m) and a gold medal (1500 m). At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she started over 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but could not win a medal.

After another disappointing result at the Speed ​​Skating Individual Distance World Championships in 2015 , Kim set a new South Korean record with 7: 05.55 over 5000 m at the Speed ​​Skating World Cup 2015/16 . At the 2016 World Speed ​​Skating Individual Distance Championships , Kim won the silver medal in the mass start and was 7th in the 3000 m. At the 2017 World Championships , a year before the 2018 Olympic Games in her home country, she won the gold medal in the mass start. At the Winter Asian Games 2017 she was able to continue her successes and won gold in the 5000 m, silver in the 3000 m and in the team pursuit and bronze in the mass start.

2018 turned into a debacle for the South Korean women's national speed skating team at the Olympic Winter Games in their own country. Kim was only 18th over 3000 m. In the team pursuit, South Korea was eliminated in the semi-finals. In a television interview, she blamed Noh Seon-yeong for the defeat. Her teammate Park Ji-woo also joined the criticism against Noh. The dispute in the South Korean team attracted worldwide media attention and Kim Bo-reum and Park Ji-woo were heavily criticized in South Korea for their statements. An online petition was initiated to remove Kim and Park from the speed skating team. It looked like Noh was an underdog on the team. Noh cried tears after the semi-final defeat, but her teammates ignored her and only her coach comforted her. Kim publicly apologized. Still, the sports and outdoor clothing maker NEPA, which Kim sponsored, did not renew Kim's contract due to the reactions in South Korea.

At the end of the games, Kim won the silver medal in the mass start. Her person continued to be controversial in the media. She was also taken into protection, since male colleagues had not been so heavily criticized in public in comparable incidents in the past.

The Ministry of Sports investigated the matter between Kim, Park and Noh after the Olympics, but found no wrongdoing on the part of Kim and Park prior to the incident. Kim then told the media in turn that she had been bullied by Noh for years.

Web links

• Profile on speedskatingnews.info
• Results on speedskatingresults.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ National Records: Korea (KOR). In: SpeedSkatingresults.com. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ex-short tracker eyes Olympic gold in speed skating. In: Yonhap . January 4, 2017, accessed February 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Lee Seung-hoon sets Asian record to win speed skating gold Korea Herald (January 31, 2011)
4. ^ ISU World Cup. 5000m Ladies - Division B. In: SpeedskatingResults.com. November 20, 2015, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Yoo Jee-ho: (LEAD) S. Korean Kim Bo-reum wins mass start gold at speed skating worlds. In: Yonhap . February 12, 2017, accessed February 13, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Speed ​​skating: fifth place for Hager in the World Cup mass start competition. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online =. February 12, 2017, accessed March 8, 2020 . 
7. ^ South Korean Olympic skaters face backlash for shaming teammate. In: Channel News Asia. February 20, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
8. ^ Winter Olympics: hits and misses from the Pyeongchang Games. In: The Guardian . February 26, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Kim Bo Reum and Park Ji Woo have to be excluded from the Olympics. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 21, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Kang Yoon-seung: (Olympics) Speed ​​skater Kim Bo-reum apologizes for blaming teammate. In: Yonhap . February 20, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Kim Dong-hwan: Bullying scandal leads to NEPA boycott. In: The Korea Times . February 25, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Olympia: Speed ​​skater Kim Bo-reum wins silver in the mass start. In: KBS World. February 24, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} Claire Lee: Case of misogyny? 'Bully' skater wins silver, yet dispute lingers. Petition calls for Kim Bo-reum to return silver medal for alleged bullying. February 25, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
14. ↑ No bullying behind controversial Olympic speedskating race: sports ministry. In: Yonhap . May 23, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Speed ​​skater stands by harassment allegations against ex-teammate, claims to have evidence. In: Yonhap . February 21, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Bo-reum is the first name.