Kim Chang-min (curler)

Kim Chang-min
birthday	4th September 1985
place of birth	Uiseong
Career
nation	South Korea
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
PAM championship 1 × 0 × 2 × University championship 1 × 0 × 0 × JPAM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Pacific Asian Curling Championships bronze 2009 Karuizawa bronze 2011 Nanjing gold 2017 Erina  Winter Universiade gold 2011 Erzurum Junior Pacific Curling Championship gold 2005 Tokoro bronze 2006 Beijing silver 2007 Naseby
last change: November 24, 2017

Kim Chang-min ( Hangul : 김창민 , Hanja : 金昌 珉 ; born September 4, 1985 in Uiseong ) is a South Korean curler . He plays the skip position.

Career

At the beginning of his career, Kim was very successful at the Junior Pacific Championship . In 2005 he won the competition as third in Kim Soo-hyuk's South Korean team . In 2006 he played as Skip and won the bronze medal; a year later the silver medal. After the win in 2005, the team played at the Junior World Championship and finished fourth there; it was followed by an eighth place ( 2006 ) and a fifth place ( 2007 ). In 2011 he and his team won the curling competition at the Winter Universiade .

Kim's greatest success on an international level is winning the gold medal with the South Korean team at the 2017 Pacific Asian Cup . He won the final against China (Skip: Zou Dejia ) 9: 8. It was his fifth participation in the competition in which the best-placed qualify for the world championship. Before the gold medal, he was able to win the bronze medal twice ( 2009 and 2011 ).

By winning the 2017 Pacific Asia Cup, Kim and his team qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Las Vegas. At his first World Cup, he missed a medal in the game for third place due to a defeat against the Scottish team around Bruce Mouat .

Kim and his teammates (Third: Seong Se-hyeon , Second: Oh Eun-su , Lead: Lee Ki-bok , Alternate: Kim Min-chan ) represented South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics in their home country. After four wins and five losses in the Round Robin , they came in seventh place.

Kim plays with his team on the World Curling Tour and has so far won two competitions there (Original 16 WCT Bonspiel 2013 and KKP Classic 2016).

Web links

• Kim Chang-min (curler) on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “If sketching is dreaming, participating in the Olympics is coloring”… meet Team Korea, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 24, 2017

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, Chang-min is the first name.