Kim Deok-hyeon

Kim Deok-hyeon
nation	South Korea
birthday	8th December 1985 (age 34)
place of birth	Gwangju , South Korea
size	180 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump , triple jump
Best performance	8.22 m , 17.07 m
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 1 × 1 × 2 × Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 1 × Universiade 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Games bronze Doha 2006 16.87 m gold Guangzhou 2010 8.11 m silver Incheon 2014 7.90 m bronze Incheon 2014 16.93 m Asian Championships bronze Incheon 2005 16.78 m silver Amman 2007 17.00 m gold Wuhan 2015 16.86 m  Universiade gold Bangkok 2007 17.02 m gold Belgrade 2009 8.41 m
last change: December 20, 2018

Kim Deok-hyeon (born December 8, 1985 ) is a South Korean long and triple jumper .

Athletic career

Kim Deok-hyeon gained his first international experience at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Grosetto , where he was eliminated in both long and triple jump qualifications. The following year he won the bronze medal in the triple jump at the Asian Championships in Incheon with 16.78 m and also won the East Asian Games in Macau with 16.79 m . In 2006 he took part in the World Indoor Championships in Moscow and was eliminated there with 15.99 m in qualification. In December, the first participation in the Asian Games in Doha , where he also won the bronze medal behind the Chinese Li Yanxi and Roman Valiyev from Kazakhstan with 16.87 m . In 2007 he won silver with 17.00 m at the Asian Championships in Amman behind the Indian Renjith Maheswary . He then won the Summer Universiade in Bangkok with 17.02 m and qualified for the World Championships in Osaka , where he finished ninth with 16.71 m in the final. In 2008 he took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing for the first time and was eliminated there with 16.88 m in qualification .

In 2009 he won the Student World Games in Belgrade again. This time, wind-assisted 8.41 m was enough for gold in the long jump, while he came fifth in the triple jump with 16.75 m. So he qualified in both disciplines for the World Championships in Berlin , where he could not qualify for the final. In November he ended the year with fourth place in the long jump with 7.93 m at the Asian Championships in Guangzhou . In the following year he won the Asian Games there with 8.11 m in the long jump and was fifth in the triple jump with 16.56 m. In 2011 he qualified again in both disciplines for the World Championships in Daegu , where he qualified in the long jump with 8.02 m for the final, but did not take part there. In the triple jump, the qualification took place without a valid attempt. At the Olympic Games in London he started in the triple jump, but retired there again with 16.22 m in the qualification .

At his third Asian Games in Incheon in 2014, he won the silver medal in the long jump behind Chinese Li Jinzhe with 7.90 m and bronze in the triple jump with 16.93 m. In 2015 he took part in the Asian Championships in Wuhan and surprisingly won the triple jump with 16.86 m. He received a bye for the World Championships in Beijing, where he was eliminated with 16.72 m in qualification . In 2016 he qualified again in two disciplines for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , in which he was eliminated in the qualification. The following year he took part in the long jump at the World Championships in London and was eliminated with 7.85 m in qualification . In 2018 he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the fourth time and finished eighth with 7.65 m.

From 2005 to 2007 and 2010 Kim was South Korean champion in the triple jump and in 2013, 2015 and 2016 and 2018 in the long jump.

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.22 m (+0.4 m / s), June 10, 2016 in Ried im Innkreis ( South Korean record )
• Triple jump: 17.07 m (0.0 m / s), October 22, 2006 in Kimchun ( South Korean record )
  • Triple jump (hall): 15.99 m, March 11, 2006 in Moscow ( South Korean record )

Web links

• Kim Deok-hyeon in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kim Deok-hyeon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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, Deok-hyeon is the first name.